Hi all,

There's one story-joke that I didn't find in this extensive listing (maybe because it really happened).

In May 1993 I was at the annual "Big Bear Festival", a bluegrbutt festival in Zuidlaren in the Netherlands, where Charlie Louvin was the closing act together with Charles Whitstein (mandolin) and Susie Reed (bbutt).

At the start of the festival, when the prforming act was not that interesting to me, I sat down in a quiet side room with Charlie Louvin and Adrian Farmer, a british multi-instrumentalist who was a member of the Dutch "Stroatklinkers", but at that time already living in Great Britain again.

Adrian was telling how he had participated in a festival in his homecountry a few weeks earlier and had be leading a banjo-workshop in a big tent at the festivalgrounds. It had been a great expierience for him and there had been over 40 banjoplayers at a given time.

Right at that moment Charlie interrupted, saying: "Man, what a great place to drop a plant on!"

Through the years we have seen a lot of great bluegrbutt-acts on stage at this festival, that has now become the official closing event of the «European World of Bluegrbutt«, but I will never forget that afternoon when I for a change wasn«t listening to the music.

Kind regards, Fokke de Jong Drachten, Frysl‰n The Netherlands