Who are these people?
And what are they doing in Kansas?
And what are they doing in Kansas?
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About Me
- Old Folkie
- This journal began as I was researching the history of the Walnut Valley Festival back in 2007. Much has been added along the way, most of it related in some way. To go to the beginning of my journey, and hopefully, the beginning of the story, go here: http://oldfolkie71.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-08-31T09%3A56%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=7 ---------------------------------------- Every September, the cottonwoods along the Walnut River begin calling, and the Pecan and Walnut groves stand ready for their duties as shelter and shade for a community of music lovers from across the globe. My life-long goal remains the same:to keep alive the history of the folk music of Southern Kansas and to somehow wrest the soul of this magical festival from both it's past and it's future, and to try to find where that soul lives and breathes during that week in September where life goes on as we each feel it should, in our own ways, in our own time.
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Yes, I think I was there when these two pics were taken--the year before Winfield became the official National Flatpicking Championship. The one on the left is David Bromberg, and the right is Pat and Victoria Garvey, all of whom played at the college there in Winfield.
Ok--Just read the rest of the page and I'll add some more. I too hitchhiked up to Winfield with a friend and first saw Bromberg performing out side, and a fella sitting to the side, whom I mistook as Bromberg's brother,later identified as Michael Totty. Later that evening we ran into Tom James and Michael Totty at some social gatherin in someones apartment or somewhere, and that was my first encounter with both, whom I would later become friends with, go to Denver to visit, and talk Tom into coming back to Kansas to meet Mr. Bones--the start of yet another long friendship!
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