Fw: [Harp-L] a bluegrass experience
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- Subject: Fw: [Harp-L] a bluegrass experience
- From: Larry Sandy <slyou65@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:55:22 -0800 (PST)
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- Reply-to: Larry Sandy <slyou65@xxxxxxxxx>
ÂBill in DC informed me off-list that there is a great jam in DC every 2nd and 4th Sunday afternoon from 2:00 to 6:00 at Lyon Park in Arlington. I researched the link, http://caboma.org/jams and made the quick decision to venture there ASAP. Thanks Bill, for this very good news. While on the CABOMA pages be sure to look up the free PDF of Bluegrass and Old Time sheet music where almost one hundred songs are given. If you don't trust links just Google CABOMA.Â
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Lockjaw Larry
I'm Excited
Breathing Music daily
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>From: JWilliam Thompson <landcommentary@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 1:36 PM
>Subject: [Harp-L] a bluegrass experience
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>Last year there was a bluegrass harmonica thread on harp-l that included
>the complaint that harmonicas are often unwelcome at bluegrass jams. I have
>been playing bluegrass harmonica in the DC region for years with varying
>degrees of acceptance. As I learn more and more tunes note for note-- as a
>fiddler would play them--I find Iâm more consistently accepted.
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>On Saturday I had an experience that gave me a glimpse of how it might be
>one day when harmonica is accepted as a bluegrass instrument. I wandered
>into a jam of some of the finest pickers in the area. Even though I have
>learned and practiced bluegrass tunes and licks for years and have waded
>into plenty of jams before, each new situation is unique and, as a harp
>player, you always run the risk of being snubbed.
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>What happened was just the opposite. I seemed to be embedded in the band.
>At the end of the session, someone who was going to sing âLifeâs Railway to
>Heavenâ turned to me and said, âGot your harmonica ready?ââa very rare
>question, in my experience, in bluegrass jams. I gave it all I had, and
>afterward, the banjo player across from me gave me a nod and a smile.
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>I donât pretend that harmonica doesnât have a long way to go toward full
>acceptance in bluegrass, but my experience Saturday encourages me that we
>are making progress. I look forward to the day when âGot your harmonica
>ready?â will be commonly heard in bluegrass.
>
>Bill in DC
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