Labor Day • Monday, September 5, 2011 Bluegrass
Transcript of Labor Day • Monday, September 5, 2011 Bluegrass
7th Annual
Stage and park facilities provided by the Park and Recreation Board of the City of Minneapolis.
Minnehaha Park“Laughing Waters”
Music and related expenses paid by thefine sponsors listed in this program.
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Labor Day • Monday, September 5, 2011
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13th Annual
elcome to the 13th annual “Laughing Waters” Labor Day Bluegrass festival. This year we have SIX fine bands, all with VERY different Wstyles, including the spectacular Mountain Heart and Nora Jane
Struthers!
We hope you enjoy this FREE concert. PLEASE thank the fine sponsors who paid for everything by patronizing their businesses!
Most of the bands have CDs or DVDs for sale; see them before or after their set. All of the musicians will be happy to talk with you—don’t be shy!
Bruce Jaeger 2005
FestivalBluegrass
Thanks to Oxendale’s Market for the water and ice for the bands!Pat Paulsen for President
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Mountain Heart
The Platte Valley Boys
Ivory Bridge
Sawtooth
The Middle Spunk Creek Boys
Nora Jane Struthers
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hank you for attending the 13th annual Laughing Wa-ters bluegrass festival. After all this time, a little his-Ttory is in order. The first festival was organized to,
well, give the Middle Spunk Creek Boys a chance to play at the Minnehaha Falls bandshell, and we brought in some other bands (friends in the Minnesota bluegrass scene) to make it a bigger event. No city, park board, state, federal or other money has ever been involved (other than the Minne-apolis Park Board’s staff performing its normal duties.) All of the festival expenses are paid for by the businesses taking out ads in the program, by vendors paying a fee to present their goods, by the “Tip Jar” at the front of the stage, and in a couple of cases by some nice individuals making unsolicited donations. It’s always been a free concert! Bluegrass has always been a tough art form to define. It’s part 1930's Country with elements of folk, jazz, blues, Cajun, swing, gospel and who remembers what else thrown in from time to time. And despite the powerful musicianship dis-played, it’s also defined by the tight vocal harmonies. Un-like other musical genres, a large percentage of the average festival audience plays bluegrass too, at one level or another. The pickers on stage are always aware that the chances are good there’s someone watching who plays better than they do! In the Twin Cities area, you can bluegrass regularly on Fri-day and Saturday nights at Dulono’s Pizza (see their ad in this program). And on Saturday mornings, tune in to KBEM’s “Bluegrass Saturday Morning” show (88.5 FM). Also check out MBOTMA, the Minnesota Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Association.
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Park in 1968. He has been a solo, part of several duos & groups, session player, private instructor at North Star Music for 15 years, Blueberry Bill on radio & TV for many years, on the Board of the Extemp, and at the drawing board of MBOTMA.
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ountain Heart is the band that has been fearlessly revolutionizing the way acous-Mtic music can be presented and played.
The band’s name has been synonymous with cut-ting-edge excellence in acoustic music circles since the group's creation in 1999. Widely known throughout the music industry for continually rede-fining the boundaries of acoustic music, the band has gained legions of loyal fans both as a result of their superlative musicianship, and more notably, their incomparably exciting live performances. Mountain Heart, or members of the band, have either won or been nominated for Grammy’s, ACM, CMA, and multiple IBMA Awards.
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The Platte Valley Boyshe Platte Valley Boys: Members of the Min-nesota Rock & Country Hall Of Fame. Cele-Tbrating 36 years playing Traditional Blue-
grass. Joining Ron Colby (Banjo), Scott Stebbins (Mandolin), and Tony Andreason (Guitar) will be Tom Schaefer (Fiddle) and Kathe Liners (Bass).
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Saturday, November 12th5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Featuring SIX hours of fine Bluegrass with
Savage “Dan Patch” American Legion12375 Princeton Ave. S.
Savage, Minnesota
Tickets: $15 at door, $12 in advance (12 and under free with adult
at Homestead Pickin’ Parlor)
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The Platte Valley Boys
The Middle Spunk Creek Boys
and Sawtooth!!!at the
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lways crowd favorites, the Sawtooth Bluegrass Band is the Moravec Brothers from Rochester, AMN — Ethan on bass & harmony vocals and
Jesse on mandolin & lead vocals, and also the Birtzer brothers from Rosemount, MN — Clint on guitar & lead vocals, Luke on fiddle & harmony vocals, and Shane Birtzer, the band’s emcee, on banjo. Tight vocal harmonies and precision picking are getting them recognized. Clint placed 2nd overall in the 2007 and 2008 MN guitar flatpicking championships while Jesse and Clint placed 2nd in the 2008 MN duet championships.
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The Middle Spunk Creek Boyshe Middle Spunk Creek Boys are now in their 43rd year, having begun their unbroken perform-Ting career on the West Bank in 1968.
Today’s Middle Spunk Creek Boys are: Alan Jesperson (guitar, and the only original member from 1968), Bruce Jaeger (mandolin, fiddle), Jim Tordoff (banjo), Ken Sherman (fiddle), and, only the second non-boy Boy in the history of the band, Janine Kemmer (bass). In 2007 the Middle Spunk Creek Boys were inducted into The Minnesota Rock and Country Hall of Fame. Members of the Middle Spunk Creek Boys are the orga-nizers of the Laughing Waters Bluegrass Festival.
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ing artist and top female vocalist. Her self-titled debut CD is, simply put, a marvel that combines brilliant songcraft, a sultry yet honey-hued voice, and an inspired sense of per-sonal musical style.
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