Stars & Bars at Bluegrass Festivals

Subject: RE: Stars & Bars at Bluegrass Festivals
From: GUEST,tequilaron
Date: 12 May 04 - 08:48 PM

I found an interesting site titled "On Black Confederates". Here is an excerpt:
22. "Black Confederate heritage is beginning to receive the attention it deserves. For instance, Terri Williams, a black journalist for the Suffolk "Virginia Pilot" newspaper, writes: "I've had to re-examine my feelings toward the [Confederate] flag started when I read a newspaper article about an elderly black man whose ancestor worked with the Confederate forces. The man spoke with pride about his family member's contribution to the cause, was photographed with the [Confederate] flag draped over his lap that's why I now have no definite stand on just what the flag symbolizes, because it no longer is their history, or my history, but our history."

So often the Confederacy is painted as just a bunch of white racist slave owners fighting for the right to maintain a perverse inhumane culture, when in fact the Southern culture was far more complex.

Rubylox- I am a big fan of Tom Russell and Dave Alvin. Both Californians I believe. Basically, I like all roots music. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gamble Rogers (a Florida Boy), Paul Thorn, Doc Watson, and on and on and on. I like it all as long as it is not this overproduced commercial pablum that is served up daily on most media outlets with the solitary goal of appealing to the most base instincts of humanity. Sorry I am beginning to rant. Breathe easy folks.
Ron

Subject: RE: Stars & Bars at Bluegrass Festivals
From: Once Famous
Date: 12 May 04 - 09:33 PM

Rubylox, you've got great taste in artists. Those are some of my favorites also.

We have a fine NPR radio station here in Chicago originating from the College of Dupage (county). Every Wednesday night 7-9 PM there is a great bluegrass show called Strictly Blegrass that you can listen to on-line via streaming audio. Two hours earlier in your part of the country. In fact, I am listening to it right now as I write this to you.

Go to:   http://www.wdcb.org/

Best regards,
Martin Gibson

Subject: RE: Stars & Bars at Bluegrass Festivals
From: pdq
Date: 12 May 04 - 10:19 PM

...here is the California Bluegrass Association site:

   CBA

Check out the "Huck Finn" in So. Calif., the "Kate Wolf" in Central Calif., the "Father's Day" in Northern Calif., and the "Strawberry" in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The CBA sponsors the "Father's Day Festival" in Grass Valley each year. Of the four mentioned, it is the only truly "bluegrass" festival. The "Kate Wolf" gets a bit political but the line-up this year is awesome. Get tickets early.

Subject: RE: Stars & Bars at Bluegrass Festivals
From: Joe Richman
Date: 12 May 04 - 10:53 PM

I'm going to "Huck Finn" in Victorville, Father's Day weekend. J. D. Crowe, Doug Dillard and Earl Scruggs are gonna be there. Rubylox, bring your fiddle. And this weekend is the smaller Topanga Banjo & Fiddle Contest... Somewhere on the west side of LA. I've got a map somewhere.

I'm not gonna guarantee a rebel flag free event in any venue playing this music. And some people drink to much at some events, too. But having said that, you'll find that most of the people are just plain ol' mountain music lovers!

Subject: RE: Stars & Bars at Bluegrass Festivals
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 12 May 04 - 11:35 PM

Rubylox, I like those same 3 groups that you do. In addition, some of my favorites are the Johnson Mountain Boys, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Tim & Mollie O'Brien, Third Tyme Out, Northern Lights, Amy Gallatin & Stillwater, Laurie Lewis, & Red Wine (an Italian Bluegrass Band). There is a hard core group of fans called the Grillbillies that travel by RV from one festival to another and publicize them on their websiste www.grillbilles.com I see them at many festivals here in the north. Most of them are either middle age or senior citizens, but they do fly the Confederate flag proudly. I don't think they do it out of malice. Some of them may not even be aware that it is offensive to some people. Many are not even from the south, as their vehicles bear Connecticut, Massachusetts, N.Y. & Pennsylvania tags. SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Stars & Bars at Bluegrass Festivals
From: GUEST,swampman
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:02 PM

swampman-It is okay to fly rebel flags at bluegrass concerts
and i am very proud of the rebel flag.

i will fly my rebel flags till the day i'm dead and i love bluegrass
music.

Subject: RE: Stars & Bars at Bluegrass Festivals
From: GUEST,Louisiana Man
Date: 24 Mar 26 - 05:44 PM

Well Rabbi, your black friend should make himself knowledgeable of the true meaning of the stars and bars. I never owned a slave but I fly the flag because I’m a proud southerner!