Secret Yellow Airplane flies on Saturday night

Thanks to Cathal Cusack for this link to YouTube, where one of two 'Secret Yellow Airplane' videos of Saturday night bluegrass jams can be seen. The music is hard-core traditional bluegrass, the atmosphere of a hotel room jam at IBMA's World of Bluegrass is perfectly conveyed, and the main distinctive feature is that the guitar player is Tony Rice.

Cathal says the clip made him smile for lots of reasons. A good deal of quiet satisfaction can be got just from watching Tony Rice's pick hand as he plays rhythm. Something else to smile about is how young most of the other musicians are. The mandolinist appears to be Aaron Ramsey, and the banjo-player Patton Wages of the Donna Hughes band.