Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 03:59 PM

Waiddaminnit!

Gary, is my blended listing on Santa Fe OK? (I stole your copy!) How about if you go back and turn your Santa Fe one into Winfield? I didn't get that one in yet. *G*

~S~

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Gary T
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 03:42 PM

Sorry we missed you, Jim. Next year we'll talk before the festival.

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Jim Krause
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 03:01 PM

Yeah, we could do that Mudcat jam at Santa Fe Trails BG Fest next year. I was there, too. It's one of my favorite gigs.
Jim

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Jim Krause
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 03:00 PM

Yeah, we could do that Mudcat jam at Santa Fe Trails BG Fest next year. I was there, too. It's one of my favorite gigs.
Jim

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Gary T
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 06:11 PM

Hey, Susan and I got this one covered! Two--count 'em two!--links with somewhat different descriptions.

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Gary T
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 06:01 PM

I just PMed you the website--since I've never added a link, I was going to let you do it. But I'd be happy to oblige--check to make sure I got it right.

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 05:53 PM

So hey... hope you'll head on over to the LINKS section and add that one... purty please guys?

~S~

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Gary T
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 05:51 PM

Whoops! Try www.wvfest.com.

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Gary T
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 05:46 PM

The Winfield festival itself is always the Thursday through Sunday that includes the 3rd Saturday in September. This year the dates are the 13th-16th. The campground opens Thursday a week earlier, this year the 6th. That week before the festival is its own event, with lots of great campground music before folks get distracted by the stage shows (it's also the time the most desirable camping spaces get taken). Their website is wvfest.com (stands for Walnut Valley Festival, its official name).

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 04:39 PM

When is Winfield??

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 04:29 PM

Link to here added to Mudcat LINKS pages. Please PM me with any more info available to add to LINKS, including website if any.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: Gary T
Date: 22 May 01 - 09:33 AM

Oh yeah. Stephen Bennett is one of those master guitarists who sucks you in with his smooth playing and leaves you saying to yourself, "Wow!" The Bluegrass Sessions brought back happy memories of New Grass Revival. They kick butt.

I think of this festival as a "mini Winfield." It has the same general spirit, and some of the same acts, but a lot less crowd. It offers more straight bluegrass than Winfield, but like Winfield, it's not really a bluegrass festival in that there's a lot of other music to be heard, including western, old time country, country blues, etc. And there's a goodly amount of campground music throughout the weekend. It would be good to add a Mudcat jam to that. Reserve next May for the 5th annual, folks. It will be a blast.

Subject: Awesome Santa Fe Trails festival
From: WyoWoman
Date: 21 May 01 - 11:48 PM

The Santa Fe Trails bluegrass festival in Kansas City this weekend was just superb. GaryT told me about it and I met him and his wife KarenT (for Ta-DAH!!!) there. I only went on Saturday, but had a great time. This is only the festival's fourth year, but it's definitely one to put on the calendar for next year. About 12,000 people attended, I think.

My favorite performer was Stephen Bennett, who played a gorgeous National Steel and a harp guitar, among other instruments, and had a delicious voice. The absolute best concert was Saturday evening's offering by the Bluegrass Sessions: Bela Fleck, banjo; Sam Bush,mandolin; Jerry Douglas, dobro; Stuart Duncan, fiddle, mandolin, guitar; Bryan Sutton, guitar; and Mark Schatz on bass. Sort of an all-star lineup. They absolutely tore it up and were just a joy to watch and hear.

Gary T. went to some other performances and will probably share some of his impressions with you when he recovers from four days in the Kansas City sun, but this is definitely a worthwhile festival and it'd be great fun to have a big Mudcat contingent next year. So y'all come on down -- or up -- or over. WhatEVer ...

ww