Thursday, March 11, 2010

Gateway Bluegrass Festival (Nate)

I think Natt covered most of what went on at Gateway, but I just wanted to share some of what I experienced.

I was really excited to go to this festival because we were going to get to see the Bankester family again, and Josh Williams.

Saturday evening we watched the Bankester's play and they did an amazing job! I bought a Martin SPD-16 TR, and Mr. Williams played it. He said it was a really good guitar. He also gave me a $35 Bluechip pick. That was very generous of him!

Then we spent the rest of the evening after the shows jamming with Kyle, Emily, and Alysha. I had a blast playing with them. Kyle is an amazing instrumentalist and can play anything. He scares me sometimes....=] Emily and Alysha have beautiful voices and play excellent twin fiddles. We played a very interesting version of "Mary Had A Little Lamb." It was more like "Mary Slaughtered Her Little Lamb." Haha.

Then, Sunday morning, the Bankester's played again and as usual it was another entertaining and great show.

After we checked out of the Hotel, we went with the Bankester's to a restaurant called Noodles & Co. They have the best noodles I have ever tasted.

It was great to get to hang out/jam with such a fun, talented, Christian family. We have been so blessed by them and by their music.

Well, I've written longer than planned....guess I better get going.

~Nathan

6 comments:

  1. Wow... what kind words. :) I really enjoyed jamming and hanging out with you guys too. Ya'll are so much fun to be around. We're going to have such a BLAST at Silver Dollar City in May! I can't wait! :)

    ~Emily

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  2. P.S. Sawing On The Strings was a lot of fun too. :) Even though I didn't really practice it much, and you can tell from the videos... yikes. Oh well, you're guitar break was almost identical to... was it Tony Rice who played on that cd? Anywhoo, you both did awesome on it. :)

    ~Emily

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  3. Hey Emily,

    SDC is going to be SO much fun!! I can't wait either.

    Oh yeah! I forgot to mention Sawing On The Strings. You sing that really well. I thought it sounded great. We'll have to play it again in SDC. Yeah, it took me forever to learn that break...:) And it still doesn't quite sound right. Haha....well I guess only Tony Rice can sound exactly like Tony Rice...=]

    Thank you....I'll keep working on the harmony too.

    Well, talk to you all soon!

    ~Nathan

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  4. Hey,
    We had a great time as well!!! For some reason, i didn't quite get the fact that you had just gotten the guitar that day...it sounded good!
    Can't wait for SDC!!! And can't wait to jam again soon....especially "Sawing on the Strings"! Em, we got some work to do.....;)

    ttyl
    ~Alysha

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  5. By the way...i love ya'll's blog! It's a lot of fun! Can't wait to see and hear more......

    ~Alysha

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  6. It was so much fun. Yeah, I love my guitar! It does have a great sound. I'm happy with it...=] I'm so excited about playing in the contest!

    Thanks! Glad you like it. I really like you girl's blog too. Ya'll are so funny...;) I like your pets. They're so cute.

    ~NATHAN

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