Blues Away! o's decided it's about time n to business. y Ed Perrone repared. Last year, my first trip down, I didn't rass festival in Union Grove, North Carolina? North Carolina down-South, deep-in-the- Carolina. I had pictured about half-a-Million en, belting down moonshine and beating the = who had the balls to Invade "their" festival. w better. Convention and Competition in Union Grove .) every year. It's been held on Easter weekend d is far from redneck. In fact, if you get right f generalization about the crowd that you can and 2) they know how to party. s a little bit of everybody, from middle-aged •er than Jack Daniels, to 20-year-old longhairs down and hawk THC to pay for the trip back. ompetition between amateur musicians who gton, to enter. At least, that's what it officially 100 bands, and more whiskey, beer, pot and now what to do with, the actual competition thing is just one huge, tremendous party-- the they claim, for that one weekend a year. And if you leave--well, shee-ut, y'all Just didn't have by Bruno Basara April 29, 1977 C.C. Reader The newly-dedicated H.P. Van . ►y , morial Coliseum - named for the founder of the Fiddler's His name is Jeff, and his hat says it all. FIDDLER'S CONVENTION Convention. Page
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