Many people remember us for our yellow van. After we retired from traveling and opened our shop we gradually started going to a few festivals again. One of the first things that the people at our indoor shows wanted to see was our yellow van. We took several out in the parking lot to visit it and prove that after all those years it was still carrying us to festivals. Unfortunately after that year it had to be retired to the farm. But here is a picture of it for those nostalgic folks out there.
At the McClain Family Festival near Berea, KY. (1986)
Bill Monroe at Dog Patch the year of the brown out at the Harrison
Arkansas Bluegrass Festival. Who knows what year this was? 1984-5?
Left: Bill Monroe with his typical greeting as he came off stage. Right: Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys performing in 1988 at the school auditorium in Marshfield, MO.
Left to right: Jimmy Cambell, Jim and Jesse's fiddler in 88 and Mike Fagan Bill Monroe's fiddler fiddling up some sunshine in our music store before the show; Jim and Jesse and band performing at the Marshfield gym 1988; and Jim and Jesse with one of my students after the performance.
Actually we have very few early festival pictures. We didn't generally carry our camera then because we were young and thought we would all live forever. Since we were at so many festivals for most of the year we just took it for granted that we would be seeing these people down the road. When we opened our music store and had to stay close to home we regretted not taking or camera along. However, we do have some fairly recent photos.
In 1991 the Goins Brothers taught a workshop for our students and did a show for us, and the following year the Warrior River Boys (pictured above) did the same. The regulars in the band at the time were David Davis on mandolin, Mitch Scott on guitar, Charlie Klein on fiddle, Stan Wileman on upright bass, and Anthony Bailey on banjo.
We were at Lexington for the Festival of the Bluegrass ever since it was at Masterson Station, but only have recent pictures of it. The festivals pictured above are Poppy Mountain 1995 and Lexington 1996.
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