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@ Folklife Center , Squibb Wilson Blvd, Fairmont, WV
Attendees: @Jim Fawcett, @Wally Venable
Open jam for all acoustic string instruments.
Old-time music.
10 AM to 3 PM
Lunch 12 to 1, pack a lunch or visit a local establishment
Learn new tunes. Play well known tunes, Slow or fast. This event was held at different locations in the past. It has now a home at the Folklife Center. It is a great venue, and they have been gracious enough to host the Wartz event. Rob Lackey was a key organizer for this event, along with Jim Fawcett and Kevin Messnger. The first Wartz was held in 2012, and has been held once or twice a year every year since, except for the Covid break. Rob was always very active on this website. He, unfortunately, passed away in December. We lost Rob, let's not lose this gathering. Rob would've wanted this.
The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center on the campus of Fairmont State University is dedicated to the identification, preservation, and perpetuation of our region's rich cultural heritage, through academic studies, educational programs, festivals and performances, and publications.
Glad you folks got together. I toyed with going down, but having just returned home from NJ I couldn't get away again that quickly.
Ken
"The dulcimer sings a sweet song."
A good jam with a wide variety of instruments. Lap and hammered dulcimers, fiddles, autoharps, guitars, banjos and spoons.
Mostly in the key of D, but the banjo and fiddle players threw in a few numbers in G. I'm thinking about a second cheap lap dulcimer in DGD tuning for next time.
I'm so glad to hear you guys are continuing this wonderful event!