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    Posted: Jan 27 2010 at 1:40pm
Hooray for grass!
 
Miami U-Hamilton has one of the best acoustic music series in the country, annually featuring many of the top bluegrass acts in the world. They have a wonderful show this Saturday featuring Solas and April Verch(extremely hot young fiddler). Bela Fleck brings his African Band in next month, and John Cowan returns in March. Parrish Auditoium has excellent sound and is limited to 440.
 
Been trying to get the same director to take over the lame MU-Middletown program. A little nudge in that direction would be greatly appreciated by everyone. Finkleman seats 770, so it could support larger acts(larger $$$) and pack the place, as opposed to the nothing that goes on there now. That program disintegrated after Claire Easton departed.
 
I worked with her in the 70s, when MU-M hosted the orifginal Mahavishnu Orchestra, It's a Beautiful Day, Roy Buchanan, Ted Nugent(Amboy Dukes), Country Joe, Edgar Winter, and the MC5. I left after the last one, before the Aerosmith disaster.
 
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Midfest here in Middletown is okay and I usually attend.  It always seems like a repeat of the previous years, perhaps with a different group here and there.  Of course the displays inside the City building are always nice and does change each year. 

I would like for Middletown to have a Bluegrass Festival.  I don't listen to Bluegrass music often, however, I do enjoy it when I hear it.  My son always records Woodsongs - Old Time Radio Show on PBS, and their specialty is Bluegrass music.  We have discovered many wonder artists by watching that show and have ordered the artists' CD's.  http://www.woodsongs.com/   There is a article I found online about one of the largest bluegrass festival.  Go to http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/travel/escapes/03Fiddle.html and check it out.

 I feel that a well advertised Bluegrass Festival would bring a lot of people in from out of town.  Perhaps not as many as we would like the first year, but if done right, it would continue to grow each consecutive year.  Just have to get the right bands in for the festival. 

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I know that area a little bit.
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cool randy, i to am from hazard, a little town called  Buckhorn.
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Originally posted by Vivian Moon Vivian Moon wrote:

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The Combs family goes back many generations in Kentucky history.
(All the Combs families in Middletown are cuzzies) Big%20smile

 
Them Combs down in Ky is thicker than hair on a cats back. No shortage on the Combs name down there. LOL
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The Combs family goes back many generations in Kentucky history.
(All the Combs families in Middletown are cuzzies) Big%20smile
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I have friends who go to "Court Days" every year.
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Perry County..Hazard...Every year around Labor Day they have a Hardburley Festival. Its amazing when you meet people at it they now live up here in the Butler Co. area.
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Letcher and Bloody Breathitt and I think Mountain festival would be awsum.
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That is right Mount Sterling every October.  Other successful KY festival Colonal Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken Festival - Bourbon Festival.  Many areas do civil war reenactments.  I am not a big fan of Middfest - my understanding is they try to make to much money off the vendors and it has driven them away over the years. 
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They use to have court day at Mount Sterling,I had to been to that one a few times. Large turnouts at those type of events.
 
I was being sarcastic in my original post above,there is nothing wrong with having Middfest but I don't think it relates to the people or the people can't relate to it. Look at the high turnout the Pork fest has every year,that is an event people can relate to and enjoy. It takes them back to their roots,the beginning. Everything Middeltown seems to want is like putting on "airs", it amounts to nothing but yet someone thinks it shows how sophisticated we are. Doesn't make sense to me but then who am I.
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My family is from Hazard.  I would love to have a festival here.  Has anyone every been to Court Days?  That is a succesful event every year.  Draws a lot of crowds.
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Originally posted by Vivian Moon Vivian Moon wrote:

Some great wood carvers and potters have come from the hills of Kentucky.
Many national prize winning quilts are made by the women of Kentucky.
Great artist come from all kinds of backgrounds and locations.

 


 
 
Yes they do Vivian,nothing like a good quilt show or seeing some exotic pottery,every time I think of pottery I think of Bybee Pottery. Anybody familiar with Bybee Pottery ?
 
Vivian I bet you have deep ruts roots in Ky.
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Originally posted by TudorBrown TudorBrown wrote:

Originally posted by Hermes Hermes wrote:

I bet I'm kin to ole Cooter...I mean Tudor.


That cracked me up! LOL
 
See,you cracked up and I'd bet my coon dog we is kin there Tudor. Hug
 
 
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Originally posted by Hermes Hermes wrote:

I bet I'm kin to ole Cooter...I mean Tudor.


That cracked me up! LOL
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Some great wood carvers and potters have come from the hills of Kentucky.
Many national prize winning quilts are made by the women of Kentucky.
Great artist come from all kinds of backgrounds and locations.

 


 
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Wolfe County? Go Lee City!
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Originally posted by randy randy wrote:

Could be, if you have lived in Middletoewn all your life I bet you at least know some of my family. Do you remember a bar out on Tytus years ago called The North Way Inn?
 
I bet we are cousins in a round about way Randy.
 
I bet I'm kin to ole Cooter...I mean Tudor. I have some kin still in Madison County and Wolfe County.
 
Now I won't feel so bad when I bad mouth somebody on here and vice versa. We all kin to each other and thats ok !  LOL
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wow swohio--r u being intolerent of other diverse cultures?
actually, an annual appalacian festival might go very well in this community.
Possibly tieing in with a baloon fest or other Smith Park events.
We shouldn't denigrate or deny such a prevalent and large segment of our fundamental heritage.
 
Probably would have more drawing power(especially from surrounding communities) than many of our current low-attendence events
 
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Could be, if you have lived in Middletoewn all your life I bet you at least know some of my family. Do you remember a bar out on Tytus years ago called The North Way Inn?
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Originally posted by randy randy wrote:

my family is from Hazard, and London,  KY. Deep in a mountain, and proud of it.
 
I knew it !! I bet me and you is kin !! Shocked LOL
 
 
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my family is from Hazard, and London,  KY. Deep in a mountain, and proud of it.
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Originally posted by swohio75 swohio75 wrote:

This is one of the most ignorant posts I've ever read.

 
And what part of Ky are your kin from there swohio ?
 
Surely your not one of those haughty-taughty types that would rather put on airs and have an art show than to celebrate something worth while ! You sound pretty uptight to me. Shocked
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Midfest is good in my opinion, although I wish I was in charge of selecting the countries.  I do appreciate the fact that Middletown has (or had) a sophisticated culture, I don't think that has to clash with our Kentucky roots.

There is definitely room in the spring/summer/fall seasons for another event though!  I think a celebration of our Kentucky heritage would be great! 

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