Sittin' and pickin'...

 

We went back to the Fall Festival at the North Georgia Fair Grounds today. It was raining in Hiawassee, terribly so, and we ducked into an exhibition hall for over 30 minutes to wait it out. Went out later and had to duck back into a covered dining hall for a piece of pizza to wait out another downpour. All in all, though, it was another day in the mountains and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

All along the walkway around the fair grounds, there would be "groups" of people sitting around in a circle with guitar, bass, fiddle and mandolin. This group also had a dobro player. Since the rain had pretty much kept attendance to the festival today to a handful, it was easy to get right up to them and listen. It was pure mountain music, no amplified instruments, though these guys had a PA for the vocals and to pick up the istruments...others had no amplification at all. At one time down the walkway there was a trio, bass, guitar and banjo, playing good old mountain music so good that a couple in the group listening started clogging...what a show! I think that when I retire I'll just come up here during the festivals and sit in with some of these guys...;-)!