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We just finished our show in Florida and are on our way home.  The shows were so much fun, and the people were SO nice! :)  It was a little rainy and chilly on Saturday, and everyone was apologizing about the weather, but we were happy it was above freezing!  Bad Florida weather is still way better than good Ohio weather. :)  And Sunday’s weather was excellent (although it felt weird to wear short-sleeves in February)!  It was sunny and warm, and the breeze was nice!  Everyone was so hospitable, and worked their hardest to make us feel welcome, and we’d like to thank them for all their work.  We had so much fun playing for everyone, and it was really nice to meet new people, since this was the first time we played in Miami.  We just had a really great time, and we hope everyone who was there did too! :)

Hi everybody!  We are on our way to Miami Beach, Florida, to play at the South Florida Bluegrass Association.  We left Ohio ready to get out of the snow, and we ran into a blizzard on the way down!  They were predicting 8 – 12 inches of snow in parts of West Virginia that we were driving through, and the wind gusted up to 40 mph! We were so afraid to stop that we just kept going and going – we didn’t want to get snowed into a hotel!  We made it though, and will be arriving in Florida in a few hours, but it was an interesting (and snowy) trip! :)

Hi everybody! We had a GREAT weekend!  We participated in the band competition this year, and we won 9^th place!  We were ecstatic just to make it to the second round, let alone finish!  It was very gratifying to see our hard work pay off, and it was worth every minute of it.  We spent a lot of time (when we weren’t practicing for our set) jamming.  John stayed up really early to jam with some of his friends, and to meet some new ones.  It was nice to catch up with everybody again, and Gary especially loved his reunion with Little Bit (the very cute dog at the T-shirt booth J).  Stay safe on your drive home – watch out for all the snow!  We’re supposed to get more on Tuesday, so John, Gary, and I are going to pray hard for a snow day J.  Keep warm and dry, and we’ll see you down the road!

The Mountaineer Opry House Band Competition was canceled due to snow.  They are trying to reschedule so keep in touch and we’ll keep you posted.  Sorry we missed you!  Hope you’re staying warm and dry.

We’d really like to thank Pete Peters and Campbell Mercer for getting us to play here!  There were so many people!  I heard 14,000!  They were busing people in because there wasn’t enough parking in the place!  There were vendors everywhere!  I saw some really cute bookmarks that fold and clip over your page with magnets!  One had a turtle on it!  Lol!  We toured Bill Monroe’s house which was interesting!  We played on the Homestead Stage for a while and went back for a second set!  It was so much fun :)  We talked to so many people afterwards, and that was fun too!  We got stuck in the mud trying to leave, and several people kindly helped push us out!  We did get out though and headed back to IBMA for more jamming and FanFest.

What a blast!  We showcased in the South Florida Bluegrass Association room, and we got our own room on wednesday night!  We played 3 times and the Henhouse Prowlers and the Tina Adair Band played with us!  A radio station interviewed us and filmed part of our show, so that was neat too!  We played at the bluegrass inn on thursday, and then went back to the hotel and had some of the BEST pizza we’ve ever had!  It was from a local place called Manny’s House of Pizza with New York-style pizza!  Pepperoni is the best :)  We saw the awards show, which was very cool (we had awesome seats!), and we saw Steve Martin!  He is so funny!  lol!  I flew home saturday morning to go to homecoming at my highschool and everybody else drove back sunday.  The plane flight from Nashville to Columbus was really short — we were barely up in the air before we were landing again!  It took an hour plus boarding time, but the drive takes WAY longer than that!  It was a very fun week and I know I was sad to go back to school again… :(  Lol!  See you soon!

We just got back from the fish and shrimp festival (I had shrimp for lunch, and it was tasty J)! Our cousin Lauren came with us because she LOVES shrimp!  There was a petting zoo-like area, and we got to hold turtles and frogs!  We also touched a sturgeon – they’re kinda slimy!  Lauren loved it and so did we!   It’s a really nice festival if you’ve never been there and you like seafood!  There was a cow that gave out candy, so Lauren loved that too!  Lol!  Now we’re headed to IBMA – see you in TN!

Hi everybody!  We got their early and there were competitions in every instrument, and dancing too!  :)  John took 2nd in the guitar competition!  We just competed in the band competition in Loudenville, TN!   Our set was short but spectacular :) and super fun for us!  The crowd was awesome and we had a great time!  We met the Davidson Brothers, an Austrailian band, and they were great!  If you haven’t seen them you should definitely check them out!  We’ll see you in October for the Blue Plate Special in Knoxville, TN!

Our show in Nashville, Ohio has been cancelled.  :(  We apologize for the short notice.  Check out our schedule and we hope to see you all at a later date!

We had a great time at Dixon’s, like we always do!  It was good to see Wayne, Wilma, Dave, Pete, and the Dixon’s again :)  Alaina was very excited to see so many new people, and so were we!  The weather was great!  We really loved playing there :)