Nice June Evening at Heartland Unplugged

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves at Heartland Unplugged on June 22, 2009. We had a great turnout and had a great time playing and singing all the favorites. A nice crowd turned out to listen and we all appreciated all of the homemade goodies....two fantastically moist cakes and a wonderful cobbler made using freshly picked raspberries. The cobbler was still warm and Pat and Dale brought along some vanilla ice cream to top it off with. I hope you enjoy looking at all of the wonderful pictures that were taken. (It looks like we could use a new sign if anyone out there is artistic.)

Bear Creek Church Fish Fry

On Saturday, June 6th, we went down to the Bear Creek Fish Fry in Osceola, MO. Great food and entertainment. Look close and you might just recognize someone.

May's Heartland Unplugged...Very Nice!

Once again we've had a very nice Heartland Unplugged and we have some great photos to share. All of us at HU were very excited to see so many new faces show up to play. Some were from cities like Warrensburg, MO, Emporia and Leavenworth, KS. Many people commented how well the group jelled together with their singing and playing. It was such a nice night. We were also very happy to see many of our friends from "Bluegrass Picking in the Meadows" show up to play. Again I'd like to comment on what a great program they have and what nice people they all are. I've added their Bluegrass Blogsite to the links on this page, so be sure and visit their site and make a comment or two. I know they enjoy the discussion.

April's Heartland Unplugged

I'm sorry that it took sooooo.... long for me to finally post pictures from last month's Heartland Unplugged. I told Frank (who took all the pictures) that I have a rule that if I post the pictures sometime before the next Heartland Unplugged, I did good. Well here I am the night before, trying to rush some pictures onto the net. I don't think Frank will be happy.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Sorry about the lack of pictures this month. Frank wasn’t at the event and no one else thought to bring a camera.

I think everyone was a little worn out after Christmas because I noticed that more than the usual number of people left earlier in the evening. Even then, we still had a few that stayed ‘til after 11:00pm. I was surprised when I didn’t see that many new instruments show up at the jam. Either Santa wasn’t all that generous or the economy is really starting to hurt us where it really counts. I guess it could be that we just all have enough guitars…but I can’t really see that. Can you ever have too many guitars?

My New Year’s Resolution for ’09 is to work with Doc and others to make Heartland Unplugged bigger and better than ever. If any of you have ideas for how to make this happen, come join us.

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is starting to be known for more than just the annual Thursday where we all eat too much. In the past few years, we've followed it up with a Friday night of Heartland Unplugged style music. We had a great turnout of musicians last night so the audience was treated to a wide variety of songs. Here are just some of the pictures snapped last night.

October '08 Heartland Unplugged

I did it again. I got behind on posting the pictures. Frank really likes it when after he goes to all of the trouble to shoot the pictures, re-size them to make it easier for me to handle them, saves them to a disc and hand delivers the disc to me, I can't seem to find the time to post them to the blog. Sorry about that Frank. Next Heartland Unplugged will be easy to remember...it's the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving Thursday. We usually have a good turnout. If anyone has any leftovers, they should bring them. My favorite is pumpkin pie with whipped cream topping (the real stuff out of the can...not the frozen kind). That goes for cranberry sauce too. I like the real stuff out of the can. If it isn't molded in the shape of a can, complete with the rings in the middle, it just isn't the real stuff.

Lot's of great photos...Ernie on guitar, Doc on his mandolin, a couple of good ones of Joe, nice couple (Tony and Kat) and many more from the HU family.