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The North Florida Bluegrass Association will hold it's monthly event at the Wild Frontier Campground in Ocala,Florida on Aug 15th and 16th. Everyone is welcome,members and non members, to come camp, pick, and enjoy. We will have two bands to perform Sat night Aug 16th at 7:00, The Old Time Way and Wire and Wood. It is all free.We will hold a pot luck dinner at 5:00 in the lounge.Everyone is welcome to come eat, pick, and enjoy the bands. Call Hazel at Wild Frontier for reservations if you wish to camp or for directions. 352-629-3540. YA'LL COME!!!!!!!

Next Saturday, June 28th at 3PM we will be debuting the 2-disc CD set from May’s recording Session. Extra copies will be available for purchase and we will also have video from the event playing.

CFBA will bring chicken wings and papergoods, so please bring a covered/side dish and your beverage of choice so we can make an evening of it. We also want to have a general meeting to discuss future events. So get your ideas together.

This event is at The Garden - 3708 East Sam Allen Road - Plant City

From I-4 take the Thonotosassa Road (Exit 19) and head north.

Please note that CFBA has cancelled the bluegrass school scheduled for June 21st. Instead, we will be holding a CD release party for the Circle Unbroken Weekend, and general meeting on Saturday, June 28th at the Garden (see my other blog entry for more details).

Hope to see you on the 28th.

Lucien

Hello Everyone,

Good News! Kelly has finished mixing and mastering the CDs – yes plural, as in 2 – from the Circle Unbroken weekend and we will be taking them in for duplication this week. So with that in mind, we have decided to hold a CD release party at the Garden (where we recorded) on Saturday June 28th. We expect to start mid afternoon (around 3 or so) but we are still working out the details. I will send out an update in the next couple of days. For those of you who are not familiar with the Garden, directions are as follows:

The Garden
3708 East Sam Allen Road

The Carter Brothers from Nashville TN will play the Bamboo Room Friday May 2nd at 10pm... The band spent several years on the road with Florida's own Vassar Clements.. they tour the USA and UK playing their own brand of southern appalachian blues rock bluegrass.... this is a very unique band you do not want to miss... chk out myspace.com/carterbrothers or carterbrothersband.com

"I dare ANYONE to watch Monroe Crossing and not get happy!" — D.A. Callaway, Silver Dollar City, Branson MO

From Minnesota, the Monroe Crossing Bluegrass Band tours in the SE US every year in Jan & Feb, and will do so again in 2009.

A simple question is: How can we make contact with the Central FL BG Assn to see about doing a concert while we're in the area next winter?

Art Blackburn
info@monroecrossing.com
www.monroecrossing.com
763.213.1349

As one of the very first members of CFBA just wanted to bring you up to date as we have made a new revised website at wnrvbluegrassradio.com. Hopefully, our next project will be audio streaming. Gary J

hootie-hoo and greetins'
i have found some local jams since movin' here--great fun in titusville, cassia, and the maguire rd & s.r. 50 friday nite ice cream/parking lot jam---where else???

It,s only a week until our annual CFBA Festival. Our saturday show includes Cedar Creek, CFBA Band, The Skillet Lickers, The Sycodelic Possums (yes thats how they spell it), Sawgrass, The Exxum Sisters, Bluegrass Parlor Band, Breaking Ground (from Jacksonville), and the fabulous Bits of Grass. Friday evening is open mike at the Soggy Bottom Stage.Saturday starts with breakfast with Chef Ken at 8 am-10am. Hamburgers and dogs will be available all day. Don't miss the best BBQ of the year at 7pm, bring a covered dish and join us.