MOUNTAIN MUSIC LIVE N THE MOUNTAINS (#1)

Last weekend at FDR State Park, June 18, 2005, at 7 PM; my self, my Daughter and Sandra Doolittle got a $2.00 Park Pass and entered the gates at Lake Delano Campgrounds. I had seen an ad in the EMC power magazine stating events happening in Georgia, when and where state wide.

"Bluegrass and Gospel Music to be performed at the amphitheater behind the Dam at Lake Delano By Wildwood Bluegrass".

We arrived at 7 pm ,drove trough the campgrounds filled with campers many sitting around an open camp fire having dinner, others fishing along the beautiful banks of the lake. I was amazed at the number of campers there. They smiled and waved as cars drove by on the way to the amphitheater. The rustic theater was built in the wood under tall pines with a view of the lake. It had a semicircle of cut log benches made from logs so big and old that you can't find trees that big anymore. People were starting to be seated on the benches or chairs they brought with them; It was time to start our fantastic evening back in time and history.

As the music begains to float from the 5 piece string band trough the tall trees of Pine Mountain, I begain to think just 2 miles west is the hussle and bussle of down town Pine Mountain and Callaway Gardens, and I am sitting in a very beautiful undisturbed mountian side listening to old style pickin and singing of some of the most beautiful gospel and bluegrass I have ever heard, live in the mountians from which its beginings came.

Appalachian Bluegrass in the Appalachian Foothills of Pine Mountian Range; 30 miles from Columbus on a Saturday night for two bucks a car load! Here in Pine Mountain, Harris County. What a deal!!  "Wildwood Bluegrass" band I find out after a great evening of music hale from Columbus ,Ga. They play at nursing homes, churches, Westville and other civic groups. They played at FDR State Park for what ever donations they get in the jar to help cover expences. They are a group of god fearing music lovers , preserving old time gospel and bluegrass music for future generations, and they do it well. Members at the singing were : Lomax Austin (14 years in group) on fiddle, Bobby Tefft ( 9 years ) guitar, Robert Earl Lowery (1 year) banjo, Dean George (10 years) manderlin, Jackie Jones ( ) bass fiddle. Other members play with them as time allows as most have real jobs. The phone number is 706-563-8822 \

I am adding to my site a section called happenings so in the near future I will put out information on events in Harris County area that most miss because they don't here about it trough normal area news. I hope it brings you joy to visit them!

Thanks Ron Rollins Visit his "Memories" website

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