Reporting from Knoxville on the eve of my long-awaited week at Steve Kaufman's acoustic camp at Maryville College, Maryville, TN (http://www.acoustic-kamp.com/). Thanks to the scholarship I received for this occasion, I'll spend the next week developing my flatpicking skills and repertoire with the aid of some of old time & bluegrass music's finest teachers. Perhaps most exciting of all is the promise of three meals a day in Pearsons, the Maryville College cafeteria. There was a time in my not-so-distant past when that last sentence would've been a joke- no more!
Life goes on as I've now lived two lightning-speed weeks in Winston-Salem, capped by Friday night's show at Honduras Coffee Company (http://www.hondurascoffeecompany.com/) in Stuart, Virginia. It was intimate (to say the least), certainly a case of quality over quantity in terms of listening. Folk there were friendly and laid back, enjoying the wonderful atmosphere and listening in a way performers don't often enjoy. A major technical snafu on my part (the essential missing component of the PA was of course inside one of the speakers) made for a true acoustic show. Many thanks to my folks for lending the PA, again, while I wait for that fine day when I can get my own.
Now it's off to camp, with lots of excitement for the people I will meet, the tunes I will learn, and for any life nudges, major or minor, that will inevitably come out of such a gathering.
Happy trails~
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