This summer has been insane!!!  It seems like I have been gone most of it and while I have had so much fun I’m tired.  I spent two weeks in Telluride Colorado, this year was the 30 th annual bluegrass festival.  It’s the first time I’ve went to the four day event, though my sister lives in Telluride and has been asking us to all come out for years.  There we’re four of us that made the trip, we all volunteered for four hours a day for four days and that paid our $170.00 entrance ticket.  The best part of that was Thurs, and Fri. night we got to go into the VIP section for String Cheese Incident and Leftover Salmon.   And on Sat. a security guy approached my daughter and her boyfriend , gave them a password and they got back to the VIP section for Horseflies.  We still don’t know why, but it sure was fun for them.  To name just a few of the bands and people we saw in those four days…..some you may recognize some you may not, but they we’re all great.

Susan Tedeschi, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Waifs, Kasey Chambers, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall and Edgar Meyer, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin, Emmylou Harris and Spyboy, Vince Gill, Michelle Shocked, Sam Bush Band and last but not least Alison Krauss and Union Station.  That’s not even everyone that was there, but it’s a good portion of them. 

I got back home on Thurs. and on Fri went right back to work for our own two day festival.  This time though I was on my own home turf not a faceless volunteer out of 400 faceless volunteers.  Which is pretty cool since I spent the next two days inside the sound stage or backstage with the likes of Cory Morrow and Seth James.  By the way Seth James is married to Jessica Murray Walker a beautiful singer in her own right, she does harmony and backup for Cory Morrow.  She is also one of the nicest people I’ve met in ages.  Her hubby Seth plays a killer blues guitar, and the shows the bands put on we’re definetly Telluride worthy. (I still feel funny onstage, not really nervous, but odd.) 

Tomorrow I leave for Missouri for my Aunt and Uncles fiftieth wedding anniversary.  run, run, run!! That has been the theme for this entire summer.  I’ll be a couple of states away from home and I’ll want to post and see what’s going on in xangaland and realize I’m not within ten miles of an accessible computer.  It’s been frustrating to say the least.  When I got back from Colorado the second time it took two hours just to clean out my e-mail.  There’s no telling how many were tossed from lack of space.  At least I’m having some fun out of the whole thing right? right!

more later if i’m not to road weary.

Keep on Rockin’ an’ Rollin’

indigo