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Playing Since: 2007
Experience Level: Just Startin'
Chesapeake has made 19 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
Interests:
[Jamming]
Occupation: Ink-Stained Wretch
Gender: Male
Age: 70
My Instruments:
"Lorena" (Gibson RB3W). "Maggie" (Deering Vega No. 2). "Fannie" (Goldstar GF100W). My other little friends: "Big Ma" (Martin D35), "Woody" (Guild D35), "Rambo" - aka "Banjo Eater" (Martin D-28 Marquis), "Annie" (Martin HD28VC)
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Too numerous to mention. Oh, what the heck. Earl Scruggs, Earl Scruggs Revue, Earl Scruggs with Family & Friends, Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene, Carolina Star, Emmylou Harris, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Eric Weissberg, Jim Mills, Ricky Scaggs, Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, Susie Burke and David Surette, Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin, Tom Gray and whatever band he's playing in at the moment, Lou Reid and whatever band he's playing in at the moment, Kate and Anna McGarrigle,Carolina Chocolate Drops, Townes Van Zandt, The Chieftans, Mary Black, Robin & Linda Williams, Nanci Griffith, Iris DeMent, Mike & Pete Seeger, Ian & Sylvia, The Carter Family, Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, Chad Mitchell Trio, Whiskey Hill Singers, Tommy Makem, The Clancy Bros., Alex Beaton, North Sea Gas, The Corries, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Old Crow Medicine Show, Crooked Still, Uncle Earl, Chatham County Line, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Woodshedders, John Stewart, Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Cotten, Muddy Waters, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Howling Wolf, Bukka White, B.B. King, Dewey Balfour, Michael Doucet, and Beausoleil. Oh, and Clifton Chenier. And a few more I can't think of right now.
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Created 5/12/2007
Last Visit 5/21/2012
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Monday, August 31, 2009 @9:19:11 PM
About 30 people, roughly one-third of whom were musicians, gathered at our place overlooking the falls on the Great Works River in South Berwick, ME., for the "Rocky Gorge Multi-Genre Jam, Cookout, and All-Around New England Get-Together." The idea was to traverse the continents of bluegrass, old-time, and folk, and what may lie in between. And we did!
Finally got to put real faces to names of Hangouters John Coleman ("mainejohn" - whom I'd actually had the pleasure of meeting before), Jerry Leibrandt ("fisher"), Don Morrison ("Mainchowder"), Bob Peelstrom ("Bob Peelstrom") and Bill Hayes ("Bill-in-ME"). Steve Davis couldn't make it because he was busy rebuilding his lobster trap empire after Hurricane Bill made a hash of it, and by the time co-host Skip King ("eagleisland") finished delivering his sailboat to Yarmouth, it was too late for him to make the trek. Also, Bob Cameron ("Klondike Waldo") woke up with a bad back, so couldn't make the two-hour drive. They were missed, but we soldiered on.
A number of musically inclined neighbors rounded out the group, along with wives, sweethearts and friends. We had to compete with the nearby falls, which played the whole time in only one key: loud. The river was swollen by rainwater from Hurricane Danny, which had passed by the day before. The following day it was perfectly silent - no water going over the falls at all.
We played on anyhow, and partook of quite a feast, coordinated by my wife Pat, who also baked a couple of unbelievably luscious blueberry pies, and whose son John and his wife Sue manned the grill and serving tables. Pat's son-in-law John Brannigan also did yeoman service. Guests brought lots of delectable side dishes, and Jerry had a special offering of marinated venison - a real treat.
If we'd had a few more pickers, we might have been able to divide into two circles, one for the bluegrassers and one for the folkies/oldtimers. Nevertheless, I thought everybody got along pretty well, musically speaking. The banjoists even gamely played along with a jazzy number or two offered by one of our guitar-playing neighbors.
(Btw, if anybody on the Hangout lives in New England and didn't get an invitation, it's because I didn't know about you. Please drop me a line in case we decide to do this again next year.)
It was a blast, guys. Thanks for coming!
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