July 2019 – The Brewgrass Chronicle

Dispatch from Common Ground’s bluegrass camp: Don’t you dare call it fantasy camp

July 12, 2019 BGchronicle Events, Festivals, Photos

Despite what you might have thought, Westminster is not in Western Maryland. It’s located sort of northwest of Baltimore and northeast of Frederick in some beautiful rolling hills. That fact was finally grudgingly acknowledged by the local institute if higher learning in 2002 when, after calling itself Western Maryland College for 135 years, it became McDaniel College. Istanbul, Constantinople, either way it was a beautiful place to visit, or at least it looked that way[…]

Dispatch from Smoked Country Jam: Another fine adventure in the mountains

July 9, 2019 BGchronicle Events, Festivals, Photos, Reviews, Videos

Our Smoked Country Jam experience was a little different in a number of ways this year. Last year, our first visit to Ron Kodish’s sweet little hootenanny in the hills, we just made a day trip out of it. We decided before we even started our drive home that night that this year’s stay would be longer. Our plan was to go for all three days of the event. Outside factors, like the need to[…]