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7.3.2013
oh dear (Dear?0h) So then there was only one Harrietville!!!! Too much feudin in them hills.(Too much bullshit thrown at the Dears and Joneses). Don't fool yourselves into believing the 'Harrietville Community' loved the festival - they loved the bums on barstools and the bodies in beds, 'cause thats their business -fair enough, but that's all.
But Camp Eureka does love the Fiddlers' Convention, while Yarra Junction doesn't notice it.
(hopefully)
1.1.2011
Dear Friends, and Dear's friends, welcome to the only reliable source of news about the turgid pool of Australian Bluegrass and old-timey music. Harold and Aussie promise to report without fear or favour on the happenings of our dysfunctional family.
HARRIETVILLE NAMED SPIRITUAL HOME OF AUSTRALIAN BLUEGRASS
We were surprised to read this news, as we did not know Australian bluegrass was dead. J.Golding and his merry band of ghost busters are setting out to find the spirit - hopefully not an exorcism - he's not built for exorcise.
Yarra Junction must be the Earthly home, as communists don't believe in spirits, except alcoholic ones.
The rumour that Ian Alexander offered to buy the entire town of Harrietville to keep the Convention there may be true- we await Rod and Judy's decision.
MORE HARRIETVILLE NEWS
Ian Alexander says that he was almost able to buy the town of Harrietville, except for Feathertop holding out. "The Catholic c**** wouldn't sell" he said.
LEGENDS SIGN UP FOR ALMOST SUPER-GROUP
Hardrive (harddrive? haardrive?) Bluegrass Band, the well known spelling mistake, have signed Tamworth banjo legend Dave Helens to their usual three-month contract. By our count, he is the seventeenth banjo player in the umpteen variations of the Dear family band. Justin Price-Rees, another Tamworth legend, replaces Nick on fiddle. Nick has finally sacked himself, now only playing the lowly mandolin, previously played by a child ex-member. Look at the band web site - www.hardrivebluegrassband.com. The new members are have not progressed musically far enough to wear the covetted brown suits worn by the more senior established members. Although they are all tradesmen, new members must serve their band apprenticeship before these suits are issued.
LOMOND OLD-TIME SESSIONS NOW EVEN STRICTER
Session Meister Craig Woodward has made the decision to allow only one tune to be played (almost endlessly) between his smoking breaks, and to ban playing when he is outside. "This will stop show-offs trying to insert non-boring tunes into my session", he mumbled.
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