Just a brief glimpse at NEXT year's festival - apparently we're definitely getting Alan Jabbour, one of the guys who helped start the Old Time revival when he was with the Hollow Rock String Band and collecting tunes from Henry Reed. Still a superb fiddler - I heard him playing with Bertram Levy on banjo under a tree at Clifftop in 2002. A wonderful hour.

A definite probability (work that out!) will be Gandydancer, who were with us a year or two back, and generated an instant large fan club. A wonderful West Virginia string band, with many direct contacts with the best of the old guys. Dave Bing (with Dwight Diller this year) and Gerry Milnes play fiddle, Ron Mullenex plays mandolin and clawhammer banjo, Mark Payne plays Guitar and three-finger banjo, Jim Martin plays rock solid bass fiddle, and the harmony singing is tremendous.

But this weekend is all primed ready to blow me away. WooHoo!
Ray