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Mandolin Cafe News
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The Old Settler's Music Festival kicks off tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Our new friends FastFrame and Prickly Pear Galleries, based in Austin, will be selling my prints and cards in the arts and crafts area. I'm told they will have other music related arts and crafts as well, so be sure to visit their booth if you're lucky enough to be attending this event.
Petunia tells me that she's enjoying her new SteelDrivers cd, just out from Rounder Records. You can read more about the band in this week's Wall Street Journal Online in Bluegrass With a Difference.
The Queen Bee and I went up to Penn Alps this past weekend to see the Red Henry family with guest Marshall Wilborn in the Great Hall...Marshall filled in for Red & Murphy's son Christopher who was playing at the Grand Ole Opry. The Great Hall at Penn Alps is a terrific, small venue for any kind of musician, and especially appropriate for the Henry family style bluegrass. Lots of original material along with down home culture and humor. If you ever get a chance...see them. All of the members are strong instrumentalists . This speaks well for their instructional Murphy Method CD selection. Want to learn to pick...these folks can teach you and you can view and buy their instructional material on line . Want to have fun...these folks can entertain.
