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Volume 6 March / April / May 2010 Issue 2Mission Statement

The purpose of the SMBA is to preserve, promote, and enjoy bluegrass music and to bring the music to an ever-increasing number of people.

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- Inside the SMBA 2-5- President’s Message 3- Concert Bands 6-7- Upcoming Events 8-13- Bluegrass Radio 14- Music Lesson & Instrument Repair 15- Jams 16-17- Membership Invitation 18

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Seven Mountains Bluegrass Association “Hornpipe” is published by the Seven Mountains Bluegrass Association Inc., which is anon-profit organization. The SMBA mails this quarterly newslet-ter to the SMBA membership, music associations, other non-profitorganizations, promoters, radio and print media at no charge. Allcorrespondence can be mailed to:

SMBA, c/o Bob Bishard, 18 Stiles Dr., Marysville, PA 17053

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The SMBA Annual Pic-nic date has been set for

Saturday July 31, 2010

at the Allenberry Inn &Playhouse picnicgrounds.Please mark the date onyour calendars and inviteyour friends and neighbors to join us for a full day of great music, good food, door prizes, and raffle.You’ll soon receive your reservation/raffle packet inthe mail.If you would be interested in helping with the picnic, please call Bill Aldinger at;(717) 728-9039

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Regarding the Trivia question and answer in the previous newsletter. Bob Campbell bought a D-28Martin guitar from Red Smiley about 1962. Myapologies. Walt

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Back in January, the snow arrived which caused allof us a lot of extra work and altered many plans. Inspite of up to fifty inches of snow in the area, wewere able to hold our monthly concert at Goodwillon February 13. We had a light attendance for agreat show by

Danny Paisley and SouthernGrass

, but considering everything, it was a success-ful night. Many of our regular show attendeessouth of York were still snowed in and unable toattend. Hopefully the weather will cut us a break from here on and we can look forward to filling thehall in March for

Darren Beachley and Legendsof the Potomac

. They have a great new band andyou do not want to miss this show.Also, we are looking into the possibility of holdingan additional show in the future at The Forum inHarrisburg. This is just in the talking stages, as of now. As a 501C-3 non-profit group we can rent theForum very reasonably and this would enable us toattract a really top name band to play for us, such as

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These are bands that we cannot afford at our presentlocation because of a small capacity hall.The Forum seats eighteen hundred people and thereis not a bad seat in the house. There are three park-ing decks in a two to three block area, a large free parking lot on the state capital grounds directly be-hind the Forum, and unlimited free parking on thestreets after 5PM. It is in the downtown Capital dis-trict of Harrisburg. Restaurants and entertainmentarea and is safe, well lit, and the Capital Police arealways a presence.I would appreciate any comments any of our membership may have concerning this possible event.Many considerations and logistics need to beworked out before this can become a reality , but I believe that this would be entertaining and benefi-cial to the SMBA.Dick Beckley,SMBA PresidentMy first month and a half as your new President hasreally been a baptism in the process of running our organization.First, we had the largest attendance in our historyfor the

Steep Canyon Rangers

concert in January.All seats were filled, even after commandeering allthe chairs the fire house had in their offices, trainingroom and anywhere else.Also in January, we had our monthly jam and openhouse at our new location in Marysville. TheMarysville-Rye Senior Center welcomed our largestcrowd in recent memory with sixty-two attendees. Itappears that the new location is very appealing toSMBA members and to the community as well.Door prizes were handed out to many attendees.I would like to thank Carole Bishard and volunteersfrom the Senior Center who prepared meals and re-freshments for those in attendance. I’d also like tothank Bob Bishard and Bill Aldinger for their work on this project. Thank you also to Jan Woods for thewonderful fruit arrangement she so generously do-nated to the occasion. It was truly, a work of art.The February jam drew an even larger crowd, withseventy-four people in attendance, includingtwenty-six pickers. With warmer weather comingwe’ll have an opportunity to hold the jams indoorsand outdoors as well.We do have some growing pains to work out andmore information will be announced about that inthe upcoming newsletters and the website. We ask for your patience and welcome your comments.

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