Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend

Herschel Sizemore in the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel, Nashville, during IBMA's World of Bluegrass 2006 (photo by Carol Hawkins)

Herschel Sizemore reports:

Thanks to everyone that came to the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend that just finished. Also all the folks that came to the Saturday night concert, thanks again to you. If you were unable to be there, you missed nothing short of a GREAT HAPPENING. One of the highlights of the concert was our Charlie Derrington Gibson Scholarship winners performing on stage together. I know this made Big Joe Vest with the Gibson Company happy, and I think Charlie would have been just as pleased.

We would surely like to thank all of our volunteers. Folks, we could not do this without you. To all of you guys that were our instructors this year, I can't tell you what a great job YOU DID! We can't forget our sponsors and vendors; you guys help us to keep on keeping on. We are already looking forward to next year. And we can promise our lineup will be just as great as in the past. Thanks again.

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Mike Conner of the Roanoke FiddleFest reports through the BGRASS-L forum:

First, a huge thanks to Herschel Sizemore and John Lawless for again putting together a fabulous four days of music and instruction [the weekend just past], and for allowing me to be a small part of it. Man, where to begin? The jams were sublime... [read more here]