{"id":704,"date":"2009-09-10T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2009-09-11T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T13:35:08","slug":"delaware-valley-bluegrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/delaware-valley-bluegrass\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Valley Bluegrass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I camped at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival<\/a> for the fourth time this Labor Day weekend. We had a pretty big compound this year, I’d say almost 20 people, so lots of jamming went on. As for the acts this weekend, there were some great bands again. I really enjoyed Marty Stuart, who I saw a few years ago at Grey Fox, and the Steep Canyon Rangers, who I saw last year at Del Val. April Verch and Rhonda Vincent were good acts too. I did miss a few people since I spent a lot more time in the camping area than by the stage, but a lot of them I’d already seen before at past festivals.<\/p>\n

I put new strings on my mandolin, which I’ve never done before. Considering I still had on the factory strings from two years ago, they made a huge difference in the sound. Apparently most people change their strings a few times a year. A friend we camp with who used to be a luthier also showed me how to set up the mandolin – lowered the action and set the intonation – so it’s also a lot easier to play now. I’m still not very good because I don’t practice very much, but I’m never home much either. Another friend told me about a workshop happening in Maryland in October so I signed up for that. I’ll actually already be camping near the location of it that weekend so it’s very convenient.<\/p>\n

We had gorgeous weather the whole weekend. I rode down for it and managed to fit everything, including the mandolin and a ton of food, on my bike. I got new saddlebags earlier this summer and they can fit a whole lot of stuff. I had one completely filled with groceries. I added the tank bag just so I could bring two loaves of bread without squishing them. I forgot to take pictures the rest of the weekend but here’s me all packed up and ready to go home on Monday morning:<\/p>\n

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I camped at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival for the fourth time this Labor Day weekend. We had a pretty big compound this year, I’d say almost 20 people, so lots of jamming went on. As for the acts this weekend, there were some great bands again. I really enjoyed Marty Stuart, who I saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycles","category-music","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}