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Thread #91247   Message #1744704
Posted By: LilyFestre
21-May-06 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: Have You Seen Doc Watson in Concert?
Subject: RE: Have You Seen Doc Watson in Concert?
What a night! Doc Watson played with David Holt for the first half of the concert. Doc played his guitar and harmonica while David Holt played banjo, guitar, National, and some kind of stick with a string stretched across that was tuned to the key of Doc's harmonica...it was something Doc rigged up on a barn door when he was a kid. David Holt and Doc Watson told stories...many times Holt would prompt Doc to tell about the time when....

During the second half of the show, Doc played solo and then his grandson Richard Watson joined him on the guitar. They played all kinds of music, lots of blues. David Holt joined them at the end of the show for another round of tunes. The music was FABULOUS and I loved the stories!

Doc played to a full house of 1,600 in the old State Theatre in Ithaca, NY for over 2 hours...we could have listened for much, MUCH longer!!!!

:) :) :)

Michelle