There's also an ongoing Friday night acoustic jam in an old school gymnasium outside Dallas (note NOT The Dalles), Oregon. Dallas is about 15 miles from Salem, the capital, and the gym is three miles from it on a two-lane road to Kings Valley.

Interesting how it began. When I first began going to the jams they were held in a country store, with performers sitting on bales of stuff.

Then the founders- Joe, his brother Mac (? I've forgotten), Leslie and Joe's ex-wife Sally - found a venue, Guthrie Park, up the road. The only remaining building from an old country school, the gym is a three room structure in a grove of oak trees.

Evntually, the owner held an auction for the property: the building and an acre or two around it.

Sally's bid was the winning one.

The group built a stage and there are church pews for the listening audiences.

It is still held on Friday nights, starting at 7:00. Performers come from all over, and some of them are very good.

The last I knew, each week there are 25-30 jammers and about the same number in the audience.