Thursday, September 23, 2004
Politics of ‘Pickin’: Bluegrass on the bill at Fairview mayor’s house
From the Williamson County Review Appeal
Move over “Monday Night Football.” Now there’s Bluegrass at the Mayor’s.
The first Monday of the month, people of all sizes and shapes, young and old, gather in a building behind Fairview Mayor Stuart Johnson’s house for an evening of old-time pickin’ and a-grinnin’.
It’s dubbed Monday Night Bluegrass at the Mayor’s, a chance for people to get together and have fun, and within a few short months it has become a Monday night tradition that hearkens back to a slower time when friends and neighbors gathered on a porch or in a barn to play the music of their parents and grandparents.
At Johnson’s place, guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles, Dobros, bass fiddles and spoons move in and out of the circle of players that often has as many as 16 players at one time. Anyone with an instrument and a love for bluegrass music can step in to play a riff or a few songs as onlookers clap their hands and stomp their feet to the music as it goes on into the evening. ...
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Review Appeal
Move over “Monday Night Football.” Now there’s Bluegrass at the Mayor’s.
The first Monday of the month, people of all sizes and shapes, young and old, gather in a building behind Fairview Mayor Stuart Johnson’s house for an evening of old-time pickin’ and a-grinnin’.
It’s dubbed Monday Night Bluegrass at the Mayor’s, a chance for people to get together and have fun, and within a few short months it has become a Monday night tradition that hearkens back to a slower time when friends and neighbors gathered on a porch or in a barn to play the music of their parents and grandparents.
At Johnson’s place, guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles, Dobros, bass fiddles and spoons move in and out of the circle of players that often has as many as 16 players at one time. Anyone with an instrument and a love for bluegrass music can step in to play a riff or a few songs as onlookers clap their hands and stomp their feet to the music as it goes on into the evening. ...
Read the article
Review Appeal
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