Nightgrass question

[Hot Sugar]

Hey Lala, I just read your bio, and I must say that it's impossible to be over-enthusiastic about your first TBF, it's worth every ounce of enthusiasm in the world, mine was epic and the best memory of my life still

[statelax]

"Does Yonder do a Kick Off Show"

"This show is all ages and the best part is riding the Gondola up the mountian side to get into Mtn.  Village area"

I was dying last year, Yonder was playing "Granny Won't You Smoke Some" at the kickoff show and Jeff Austin put the mic infront of some young kid who was singing the entire chorus for the crowd, Jeff gets back on the mic and goes.....

"You Ever Watched a Career End??  That was it"

I think that show is flaoting around on bt or the Archive, well worth the time to download!!!

[livluvgrow]

You ever hear that kid who sang play mandolin he is great.

[thinktoomuch]

Yeah, that kid was amazing!  During the set break he was playing full songs out side and drawing a decent crowd...I stayed and saw him play Raleigh and Spencer, pretty neat

[Auntie Hope]

That's one of our Town Park Camping kids, Sol! He "played" the entire concert with YMSB last year at the Kick-Off Party in Mountian Village.

The first night I met Sol he was poking around outside "The Gov'nor's Tent (a.k.a A.J.). I told him to go on in and pick. He looked back at me unsure. "Go ahead! Everyone's welcome to pick around here and you're part of everyone!" Within one song Sol was calling the tune, calling the key and kicking off the picking circle. IT WAS AWESOME! 

By the way... Sol was 10 years old last year at TBF. Hope he's around this year, FOR SURE! 

The TBF Youngin's are wonderful pickers! 

Auntie Hope 

 Listening to: The Wine-e-est woman I've EVER met in my LIFE! OMG! SHUT-UP!

[lalagay]

Aaaaarrgghhh ! Please stop! All of you! I can't stand it any longer!!!!     
If I keep on reading people's posts about how amazing TBF is, I'm simply going to faint of over-excitment !!!!
Everybody's personal experience is so full of enthusiasm and cheer joy that it's just making me itchy to pack my bag and turn up 3 months early!!
Is there any way around this?!? maybe I should just stop logging in to this forum... But then I'd just miss all you guys!!! this is a really though situation... My own sanity is at stake!

[statelax]

"The TBF Youngin's are wonderful pickers!"

Ya it was pretty cool, Austins entire rant about the kid was awesome, talking about how he saw him out in Cali at a show front row singing as well, and the whole "We are in Telluride, no better and safer place for the young one's, surrounded by good people, etc" just set a great tone for the night and weekend

Of course his "But not until your Seventeen.....ok Sixteen" had the crowd laughing

Lets also not forget we got a bluegrass Slayer song tease out of them as well at that same show, only in Telluride........

 Listening to: YMSB Boulder Theater 05'

[Hooch]

Aaaaarrgghhh ! Please stop! All of you! I can't stand it any longer!!!!     
If I keep on reading people's posts about how amazing TBF is, I'm simply going to faint of over-excitment !!!!
Everybody's personal experience is so full of enthusiasm and cheer joy that it's just making me itchy to pack my bag and turn up 3 months early!!
Is there any way around this?!? maybe I should just stop logging in to this forum... But then I'd just miss all you guys!!! this is a really though situation... My own sanity is at stake!

The banter here does not do TBF justice by any means.  It can only be experiened and not described by mere words.  I've been going now for 13 years and the pre-fest excitement never goes away.  Every year I have to suffer through the planning, the waiting, the slowwww weeks beforehand, the stupid month of May, and the inevitable post-festival blues.  It's horrible.  I don't know why I keep going to the thing.  

[lalagay]

Thanks for insider knowledge Hooch, I so feel reassured now.... 

[Hot Sugar]

Thanks for insider knowledge Hooch, I so feel reassured now.... 

I have found that your first Festival goes above and beyond all expectations, at least mine did
I couldn't envision a summer without TBF now

[Boogiefool]

I think I've got it now.

What you're not telling us is that we can look forward to developing an addiction for a TBF  fix once a year.

We go home, thinking we can cold turkey through the summer, but once the videos and cd's don't hit the spot, we'll come running back for more next year.

I'm right aren't I?

 Listening to: Greensky Bluegrass Boulder '05

[Ron N Deb]

MMMMMMm mmmmm Something like that !!
 

[lalagay]

Great! Now we're in for trouble! I've got a life to return to you know! 
I am greatly concerned that I won't want to take my old life back after I return home...  and suffer from TBF withdrawal symptoms for 12 months...

[Ron N Deb]

now that we have sucked you into this , you are Doomed for the rest of your Life !

[livluvgrow]

There is rehab for the withdrawl. It is my Banjo. After my first festival I just had to have a Banjo. I play that thing every free moment I have. Then there are the pictures I am still sorting through all the pictures from last year. All part of the rehab. Aw hell who am I foolin I am a bluegrass addict and there aint no rehabbin me.