NORTH DAKOTA NEWS (REID BUCKLEY, SON OF FRED AND JEANNIE BUCKLEY, IS A PRETTY GOOD MANDOLIN PICKER AS WELL.)
Hello!!!!! Merry Christmas and New Year’s is just a few days away……we want to invite ALL of you to the 10th annual Blizzard Bluegrass weekend at Bismarck State College NEXT weekend January 2-3. Concerts each night are at 7:30 and the doors open at 6:30pm…..Saturday
is the “Learn a bluegrass song workshop” from 2-4. Bring your
instrument and play along with one of the country’s finest bluegrass
bands Blue Moon Rising!
Friday
we head to the Youth Correctional Center ( formerly SIS ) to have Blue
Moon Rising band play to the 90 incarcerated youth. We are giving the
center 2 brand new guitars for the youth to play. J
My
band Cotton Wood will have 3 special guests Ashley and her husband
Danny Stewart as well as fiddle player from Montana Reid Buckley!! Get
out and hear some amazing bluegrass and if you come bring a toothbrush
for our “brushing for bluegrass” campaign. We plan to take these to
Guatemala to the God’s Child Project!!!!!! Keep in touch and we hope
all is well…….dates to remember are 25th annual Missouri
River Bluegrass Festival at the Cross Ranch State Park are June 19-20
with Cotton Wood, The Special Consensus and the Wood Picks, Chuck Suchy,
and other bands TBA. Bluegrass goes PINK is Saturday July 25th
with a 5K fun walk/run at 0900 AM this year…..supper at 5pm with the
Washburn area churches and the concert at 7:00 pm….wear your pink and
support the Bismarck Cancer Center foundation…….but first we need to get
through the BLIZZARD and we hope you can join us! Cheers!!!! Jill Wiese www.cottonwoodbluegrass.com
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