road trippin'

we took a road trip

in our new.to.us

caaaaar!

the Earle Theater, Mount Airy

the weekend of the Tommy Jarrell Festival -

but we went for the women.

women's old time retreat band

in the back: Paul Brown of local NPR fame (an honorary woman, they said) & his wife, Terri McMurray

flatfoot dancing

instrumental shadows

little girl singing 'Pig in a Pen'

 kid feet, keeping beat

Alice Gerrard (of Hazel & Alice) gives keynote address
for Tommy Jarrell Festival

one of many clips

(her name caught my imagination)

Berzilla Wallin

Alice Gerrard & Richard Bowman (fiddler for Slate Mountain Ramblers)

we particularly went for this woman

& her band.

musical Q&A with The Becky Buller Band

& then

the only still shot. she is quite expressive & hard to photograph!

sound check with The Becky Buller Band

sound check re-do

sound check re-do two

we, also, walked up the hill and around the bend
to see the Andy Griffith Museum

Thelma Lou's

Andy Griffith Show clip about Aunt Bea's pickles

(running in the background)

hopefully the first of many road trips
in our new.to.us
caaaaar!