There's a yearly old-time festival in Petersburg, Indiana, some time in July. I disremember the date. But you can find it with a search engine, I think. I don't remember whether it is called an old-time festival or a fiddler's contest or banjo picker's contest. It just seems to me it's something like old-time picker's contest or something like that.

I'm from Indianapolis, and I had intended to go down this year and enter the singing portion, more for the experience than out of any overweening pride and expectation of winning. And also on the possibility that "Even a blind pig occasionally finds an acorn." Then it turned out that my family had heavily loaded weekends just before and after the date for this one, and I decided we'd better not. Maybe next year. Maybe I'll see you there next year!

Dave Oesterreich