Dulcimr Festival!

Here we are in Evart MI. at the Dulcimer Festival We had a nice drive up Sunday. Good driving all the way. M66 is a mostly straight shot from home to here. Camping here is 'first come, first served', which seems to mean that you send your buddies early to pay for your campsite, because there were no campsites left in the main camping area. So no electricity for us. We camped in the OTL lot under the pines, rustic camping. The porta potty is close though and McD's is across the road. So we are all set. We can get internet access, that is a main consideration for Lori.
We started trying to find jams almost immediately. I noticed a fellow sitting at a booth with a Dobro...He said he wasn't very good, but would try to play along, if I would sing a song. Yeah, right! He was good alright, he could about make that Dobro talk. I found out later he is a nationally known Dobro player. Some people called him Evan, and some called him Leonard....I called him 'Dobro'. We jammed there until way dark. I cannot tell just what time it was, but Lori and I were froze by then, it gets cool once the sun goes down in Evart.
Monday was more of the same. The only time we were at the campsite was lunch time and bedtime. Some friends from home are here, and we jammed with them for several hours. I know, drive all the way here to jam with people from home! But it was fun, for sure... and we jammed with people we don't know as well. It is hard to describe jammin. Except to say we have just too much fun! We were going to play back up for Bob Warner at the Gospel jam, but he decided against playing there. We missed each other so it was Tuesday morning before we found that out. We jammed around all evening Monday as well. By Monday evening, the ends of my fingers were getting black and blue! This even though I play guitar a lot!
Tuesday we walked around and joined some jams, once again with Bob and Linda and later with George and Betty. We came home to rest a bit...and eat some supper, and the campers next door invited us over to play music with them. That was fun. He has made a CD, and he played all the instruments on the CD. Then! He said I want to show something on the guitar. I got a two hour lesson on the pentatonic scale. Not so much what it is, but more where it is on the fret board. We used the 'E' scale. Then he played a 12 bar blues in 'E' and I played Lead! Amazing! He then proceeded to show me some other things I can do when playing rhythm in a group! Far too much for my mind (and fingers!) to digest. I am looking forward to more time with him.
This AM it is rainy. It rained over night, early this morning. Lori has a bad case of Poison Ivy...so we had a restless night. She finally at 4 AM took a shower. She rested much better after that. I didn't sleep while she was away, a short night for us both.
This is our main vacation of the year...if a retired person can actually Be on Vacation!
This morning we discovered that our new neighbors are Karen and Don from Toledo. We met them last year, she plays clawhammer banjo, he fiddles. We 'stole' a song from them last year, 'the Yearling Song. I wonder what song we can learn from them this year....