southstar #001

Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Hall of Fame
and
Uncle Pen Days Festival
Sept. 21 Day 1

NewTown

Setlist

01) cuts in at end of 2nd song
02) Rounder
03) The Old Crossroads
04) Big City
05) The Heart You've Been Tending
06) All My Tears (Be Washed Away)
07) Harlan Road
08) Castaway
09) Inst.
10) Come Back To Me
11) Drifter Blues
12) Water Under The Bridge
13) Can't Let Go
14) It's Gonna Take A Train
15) Uncle Pen

Kati Penn - Fiddle & Vocals
Jr Williams - Banjo & Vocals
Travis Anderson - Bass
Mitchell Cannon - Mandolin
Hayes Griffin- Guitar & Vocals

Recorder: Q3 ZOOM
Transfer: WavePad (Volume Amplified)
Recorded by southstar

Note:
This is my first time recording a show. I sorta lucked into the recorder the day before the festival, bought it for $50.
It is a device with very few setting but I'm very happy with the recordings. There is just a Low & High Mic Gain Setting.
I used the Low and amplified the sound. The recorder was on a mic stand Center Stage 5th Row about 50 Feet from Speakers.
You can hear my Bluegrass buddy,Tater, hollar & whistle.
Come November I plan to go record Kody Norris And The Watauga Mountain Boys. Mark Poe puts on some Bluegrass shows in Connersville Indana. Mark can be heard on the Uncle Pen Days recordings playing Bass with The Wildwood Valley Boys & guitar with Feller & Hill and the Bluegrass Buckaroos. Tom Feller is the sound engineer at Bean Blossom.

NewTown
The sound of a great band is usually developed through the relationships the members have with one another as much as their technical abilities. This is certainly the case with NewTown, which features the first-rate vocal and instrumental work of five of the finest musicians in Bluegrass, who share a bond that combines individual virtuosity with a background of formal training.

Based in Lexington, Kentucky, and fronted by award-winning vocalist/fiddler Kati Penn Williams and her singer/banjo-picker husband, Jr. Williams, NewTown is one of the most exciting acts in contemporary Bluegrass. The band was formed in 2009 when Jr. left Bluegrass band NewFound Road to play full-time with his wife in what would become NewTown. Since then, the group has gained a strong following by playing at festivals throughout the U.S., sharing bills with such acts as Rhonda Vincent & the Rage and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. NewTown has appeared several times at the legendary Station Inn in Nashville, and has performed twice at showcases at the IBMA’s World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, North Carolina. The ensemble has also opened shows for the John Cowan Band, whose namesake leader says on NewTown’s website, “Bands like NewTown are not by any means common; they're not made everyday. It takes sweat equity, passion, patience and vision.”

www.thenewtownband.com

Schedule:

11:00 am: Kevin Prater Band
12:15 pm: Ernie Thacker and Route 23
1:30 pm: Darrell Webb Band
2:45 pm: NewTowne
4:00 pm: The Karl Shiflett and Big country Show
5:00 pm: Supper Break
5:30 pm: Larry Stephenson Band
6:45 pm: The Spinney Brothers
8:00 pm: Blue Mafia
9:15 pm: The Boxcars
10:30 pm: Dave Adkins Band

Bill Monroe Music Park And Campground
5163 State Route 135 North
Morgantown, IN 46160
800-414-4677
http://www.beanblossom.us/


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