Bluegrass jambouree Tour Blog - Friday 11th December

Tonight’s show in Kempten was a complete sell out, hurrah for the bluegrass Jambouree! The venue itself seemed to be some kind of school type facility, but at least there was plenty of space, and as a result lots of strings were changed. We had a close call when the saddle on Beverly’s 1940’s Gibson crumbled when she went to change her strings, but Woody happened to have a spare bone saddle, which he filed with Sophia’s glass nail file and fitted – totally saving the day, go Woody! It was nice to see Big Herbert make an appearance in the audience, and Sophia got her first piece of fan mail – A faxed picture of Django and Stephane and a note to say thanks for the great music last night!

The catering in a place across the road was sadly not the greatest but the bread/cheese/meat platter provided by the venue, (which we have come to expect upon arrival!) was up to usual standards. Plus there was the impromptu bar set up with ingredients for several cocktails, which cheered every one up, and just a few tequila sunrises, cuba libras and Moscow Mules were consumed! Tonight we really enjoyed Beverly and Carl’s Delmore brother’s number, while the Steep Canyon Rangers played an absolute blinder of a set. Also a great encore including ‘rolling in my sweet baby’s arms’ taken at quite a lick, and we were all presented with a very cute bottle of German wine at the end of the show. Werner did an absolutely great job with the sound tonight despite being presented with the PA from hell, which he somehow managed to tame. Good work Werner!