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.
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