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ATTENTION – The Wheeling Jamboree has been moved to Brush Run Park for the summer (67140 Airport Road, St. Clairsville, OH 43950).  They have indoor and outdoor stages for any weather.  Check out the Wheeling Jamboree’s website (www.wheelingjamboree.org) for more information and future shows.  We apologize for any inconvenience and we hope you can still make it.

The new CD arrived!  We will update our website so that it is available for purchase online, and it is always available at festivals (see our schedule for a listing of upcoming events), but if you want to buy one through PayPal before the link appears on our site, shoot us an email at info@lonesomemeadow.com   :)

We won!  Well, we actually took 2^nd, but we felt like we won! :) The points were so close – we were only 11 points from first place, out of 600 points possible!  For us that’s a big deal.  While at Silver Dollar City, we saw the Huntley Sisters (www.huntleysisters.com), who we’ve known for a long time, and we got to watch the Jeanette Williams Band.  Gary’s favorite part was the check they gave us that was four feet long. Lol! Not only was the competition fun, but we met so many good pickers and nice people!  We jammed Friday and Saturday night, which was cool because it’s hard to find a jam with other kids.  We met a lot of new people, including the Hartley family (www.hartleyfamilybluegrass.com), and had lots of fun jamming with them :).  We were sad to miss the jam Sunday night, but we had a LONG drive (12 and a half hours!).  This morning, John remembered he had an assignment for history where he needed to take a picture of himself with his history text book in front of a historic landmark.  We had already passed Lincoln’s log cabin, so we decided to stop at Benjamin Harrison’s house to take a picture really quickly.  We weren’t even going to tour the house or anything.  We got there and decided we wanted a tour, because it is a really beautiful brick house, and it was huge! :)  And then we found out that the house was closed because it is Memorial Day!  We got the picture anyway, and saw the rose garden and the sundial lol!  We’ve decided that the next time we go through Indianapolis (which could be a long time from now) we will plan to stop and check it out.

The acoustics at churches are usually really good, and this place was no exception.  The former Catholic church was built around 1900, and there are beautiful stained glass windows and it still looks brand new.  They have bluegrass every saturday – you can see who is playing at www.blackswampopry.com - so if you are in the area you should stop by :)

We opened for Chris Jones and the Night Drivers at the Pennyroyal.  If you haven’t seen them, you should.  They’re a great band and Ned Luberecki, their banjo player, is hilarious.  He wrote the ultimate bluegrass song called “Cabin of Death,” and Gary bought his CD just for that song!  I had tears running down my face I was laughing so hard.

This was our third time playing on Red Barn Radio!  We played at LexArts which is an old YMCA gym that was turned into an arts and dance studio, and there are paintings and other art projects all over.  I decided this afternoon that I’m going to the Ohio State University — and I announced it on the radio! :)  Next year is going to be so much fun!  I’ve decided to go into Biomedical Engineering, which is going to be a lot of hard work, but I’m looking forward to it.  And I’m going to continue as part of the band while I’m at college; Ohio State is close enough to make that possible! :)  John and Gary are wishing they could graduate too!  lol!

Hi everybody!  The opry was such a cool place — the concessions stand was in a trolley car!  The food was tasty and the crowd was really enthusiastic — something we always love to see :)  It was nice to see Dave and Wayne again, and to meet everybody there.

We always love to play at Espresso Yourself Music Cafe, and last night was no exception!  They have live music all the time — you can check their website at www.espressoyourselfmusiccafe.com.  The food is excellent and the fruit smoothies are SOOO good! :) Gary always orders a starving artist (lol) which is a type of cheese bread.  We’d like to say hi to Julie, Amanda, Emily, Denver, Julia, and Madeline (our friends from school :) ) and everyone else who stopped by to see us.  We’ll be back sometime in the middle of May, so check our schedule for updates.  Hopefully we’ll see you all again soon!

We decided to get a session artist on our CD and our producer suggested Rob Ickes.  He played dobro on two of the songs, and then stopped to chat with us!  It was very cool to meet him and for him to be on our CD, and we got our picture taken with him as well!  The CD is shaping up nicely, and we can’t wait to see the final product!  It was a fun experience, but now we have to go back home for school on monday… :( Lol! See you all soon!

Yesterday was our last day at the studio.  We finished recording all of our songs and are very happy with the results :)  It is off to be mixed, while we get cover art pictures and hopefully we will have it printed and for sale on our website and at shows by early june!  Our six days at thee studio were fun and relaxing (which made us VERY happy), and my grandparents came along and it is such a relief to get it done.  Can’t wait to see everyone again the next time we’re in your area, so drop by and chat with us for a bit, and check our schedule for where we’ll be!  :)