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Thread #51371   Message #783025
Posted By: wilco
13-Sep-02 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: Best cities in USA for folk music
Subject: RE: Best cities in USA for folk music
Chattanooga, Tennessee. This weekend for example: Old-time and blugrass "oprys" every week-end (Ringgold and Signal Mountain), Dulcimer and Autoharp Clubs Monthly Jam, Friends of Folk Music Day festival (Harry Hudson, Down Yonder, Tom Morgan, Dismembered Tennesseans, Laura Boosinger & Tim Abell), Charle's and Myrtle's Coffeehouse(Dana Cooper), Nightfall with The Nashville Blugrass Band, Robert Mirabel (Native American),several gospel shows, several music festivals (Tri-state in South Pittsburg), Jom Hurts and Missy Raines at Barking legs theater, and the Georgia Moutain fair nearby as is Museum of Appalachia Homecoming in Norris. And, next weekend, amny of the same with Leon Redbone, Merle Haggard, the Spinners. And, my high-school aged son has a football game tonight!!!! And, I'll miss lots of this!!!!