TOPIC: The Sugar Grove Festival

I attended the Sugar Grove Festival near Boone, NC while I was in the NC, VA, Tenn. area in early July. The two day festival was originally known as "Doc Watson Appreciation Days" and was a great laid back low key venue with only about 1200 attendees good food and no visible alcohol. I would recommend it to those who don't care for the large festivals that have 5 or 6 bands playing at the same time.

The headliners were Doc Watson, the Kruger Bros, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and others. All were great and major performances were held under a very large tent that seated 1000 people.

Also headlining were the ETSU Pride, the Bluegrass band from East Tennessee State University (were I went to grad school). Interestingly, ETSU currently offers a minor in Bluegrass and they announced that within two years they would be the first college to offer a BS degree in Bluegrass.

I was the unpaid Fretmentor representative at the festival (I wore my tee shirt). Additionally, while in Boone I represented Fretmentor by visiting Appalachian State University to commemorate their win over the Un. of Michigan in football.

You had my interest in this post until the very nasty last sentence. GO BLUE!

Keith, I am VERY disapointed in you. I thought you were a nice guy. GO BLUE!!!!!

Tsk Tsk...such rivalry....can't understand it....they aren't even SEC schools....Geaux Tigers! (yeah, I know...get back to the topic of music!

Were we talking about music? Go FSU Seminoles!!!!!