I was digging around through some old video tapes and ran across this gem shot backstage at Merlefest. It looks like year 2 (?) to me because it is in the newly constructed larger stage area and it is obviously on Sunday morning as Doc mentions. Perhaps some sleuth can determine the year based on who is present.
It is fun seeing how many folks you can identify. Be on the look out for Bill Monroe, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, John Hartford, Jamie Hartford and others! (For example, who is the lovely lady exiting on the heels of Bill Monroe?) If you can identify any people in the video please add a comment.
Those last few seconds, where Doc is sitting backstage with the mirrors on the wall, was not at Merlefest but was from around the same time period (probably on the same original tape) when our band Cedar Hill opened for Doc at Center Stage in Atlanta.
I am wearing the free T shirt I got at the H, R, G, T & C Oyster Roast probably held the day before. It's pretty funny as you can see I am wearing a PAGER in that last scene! haha Who did I think needed to page me?
Those were some fun times. Doing stuff like that, and hanging out in places like that (plus countless hours of woodshedding) is how I learned to play and how to crack a joke on stage. Today, if you want to learn to play bluegrass check out my webpages here
www.bradleylaird.com
and try to be backstage wherever it is HAPPENING right now for you. 30 years from now you can be posting YOUR videos of hanging out backstage with the Avett Brothers, Punch Brothers or Old Crow or Yonder Mountain or whatever...
I am thankful that Bob Perl who always had that danged video camera and was forever pokin' it in people's faces. Thanks, Bob. R.I.P.
Brad
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