...Hi Art! When I lived in Arkansas about about 79 or 80 I rendezvoused with Bryan B to hang and play harps and I tented about a hundred yards from the main stage. There were no fences then and a band of Hell's Angels tented near me.It was a very laid back festival in those days...
I remember having dinner with Bryan and Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard as well as a bunch I didn't recognize. Come to think of it, Kate Wolfe might have been with us!) (Didn't know of her then...having been in Ann Arbor for so long)(when Mike and Alice were still an item of course) in a diner in town. Another year I went to enter the first contest and I was too shy and Marty Schuman won the "First International Competition" in autoharp that year: 1981.
Even though I lived in Florida from 1983 on, it wasn't until 1991 that I found a way to introduce myself to Marty and to become friends! I was really shy in those days! But Winfield was much smaller in those days...harpgirl