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Show The jam sessions are continuing at Fort Buenaventura State Park in Ogden, every Thursday from 6:00 p.m. till dark. Attendance has be~n good and the picking hot, from everything we've heard. The Sugarhouse Park jam sessions in the northeast section of the park will continue we~ther.permitting, every Wednesday evening beginnning at 6:00 p.m. These sessions have a long, tho sometimes cloudy but venerable bluegrass history, and reports indicate that a lot of people are showing up to listen and play. U. Utah Phillips will return to Utah for a concert sponsored by the UBMA on Sunday, September 11th. Look for info next month. Pat Donohue will appear courtesy of the UBMA on September 21st. Pat is a Winfield '83 Fingerpicking Guitar Champ who wowed the crowd at Telluride this summer ... More to come. It's not worth fighting for, but we hear the crowd at the Snowbird Bluegrass Festival needed some lessons in either how to listen to music or how to consume and hold their liquor. Odd how som~ people will .pay good money to attend a music event and wind up being a tad too much of an event themselves. The exhibit "Instruments of Expression" c<;>ntinues through August 19, at the Art Barn, 54 F~nc~ Lane in Salt Lake City. This exhibit highhghts the talents of our local instrument makers. Gabrielle Clements of Acoustic Music Leonard Coulson and Kennard N achol of Intermountain Guitar and Banjo and Ken Stika of the Gre~t Salt Lake Guitar Company are some of the luthie~s ~hose works are on display for this show. This IS a free show and a great time to support local craftsmanship. Try to catch Paul Stowe at Ruth's Diner on either August 19th or 24th. Paul is from Munich, West Germany, where he picks with a big-time bluegrass band. In SLC for a vacation, these two dates are the only chances to see and hear Paul (who is a SLC native) do his stuff. 3 Utah State Fiddle Contest A.u.gust 12 & 13 The 1988 Utah State Fiddle Contest and Bluegrass Festival will be held on August 12-13 from 6:30a.m. untillO:OO p.m. at the Scera Park 699 S. St~te in. Orem, Utah. Sponsored by th~ ~ tah Oldume Fiddlers and the Scera Corporation, Instrument competitions will begin at 7:00a.m. so ya' gotta wake up early to catch them all! Late registrations will begin at 6:30 a.m. or one-half hour before the division begins. Scheduled are five divisions: General ( 18 & Over), Junior (13-17),, Junior Junior (12 & Under), Novice, and Seniors 65 and over. There will be a Free Style (Trick & Fancy ) Fiddle Contest on Friday night, and prize monies will be awarded in all categories. For more information, call Darnell Hancock at 798-2007 or Jim Shupe at 226-0666. Oquirrh Ridge Drifters in Concert at the Art Barn on August 5 With. the Lu~hier's exhibit as a backdrop, the Oquirr? Ridge Drifters will play a not-to-be-rmssed concert of traditional music at the Finch Lane Gallery on Friday evening Auguust 5th? beginning at 7:30 p.m. Th~ Salt Lake City Arts Council sponsors this event and invites the public to attend free of charge. The Oquirrh Ridge Drifters-Tom St~tich, man?olin, Ron Mileur, guitar, Rex Fhnner, banJO and Kennard Nachol, fiddle and bass-took their name from the mountain range of the same name. They have been playin? bluegra~s together for seven years, somet.i mes whil. e headlining a concert ' sometimes opening for the likes of Vassar Clements or Doc Watson. But whatever the billing, their commitment to the preservation of the rich American sound of traditional bluegrass music always comes through unmistakeably. |
