Spectrum with Mark Schatz, Jimmy Gaudreau, Glen Lawson, Bela Fleck & Jimmy Mattingly

My favorite mandolinist going back to my families first bluegrass album Jimmy Gaudreau

Spectrum was the hot new band at the time.

Jimmy Gaudreau

Jim & Jesse with Keith McReynolds

Jim & Jesse with Keith McReynolds

Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys. Blaine Sprouse, Jesse McReynolds, Jim McReynolds, Keith McReynolds and Tim Ellis

Jim & Jesse let the boys step out for a song

Wilma Lee Cooper

Buck White & The Down Home Folks. Buck, Sharon, Cheryl and Jerry Douglas

Ricky Skaggs with The Down Home Folks

Looks like Gospel time. Buck White and The Down Home Folks with Fred Bartenstein in doorway

The Down Home Folks with guests, Little Roy and Polly Lewis

Marty Stuart with Don Stover watching

Marty Stuart

Don Stover and Marty Stuart

The Goins Brothers , Ray & Melvin with Art Stamper fiddle, Steve Cooley bass, Danny Jones mandolin

Big Timber

The Sykes Boys — with Ernie Sykes

Dick Staber, Don Stover, Ernie Sykes Jr, Ernie Sykes, Fred Bartenstein

The Allen Brothers

The Osborne Brothers

Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers

The Dry Branch Fire Squad

The Lewis Family

Sonny Osborne

Dana Cupp on mandolin, ? on dobro, Mike Smith (on loan from Larry Sparks band) on bass, Jimmy Martin, Gordon Reid on banjo

Charlie Cline was fiddling with The Sunny Mountain Boys but Jimmy featured him on a vocal too

Jimmy Martin, Gordon Reid

?, Jimmy Martin, Gordon Reid

I heard from Dana Cupp that he was playing in the band at the time so I went back and found this one shot with him playing mandolin. Jimmy's F-12?

Bobby Osborne

Two very important people from my bluegrass upbringing, John Duffey and Tom L Gray

Mostly Tom L Gray with some Ben Eldridge

John Duffey showing us his versatility

Ricky Skaggs joined the Seldom Scene for a set. — with Tom L Gray and Phil Rosenthal

John Duffey and Jimmy Martin during a Seldom Scene set

Hit Parade of Love perhaps? — with Tom L Gray and Phil Rosenthal

A smooth trio with John Duffey, Mike Auldridge and Phil Rosenthal

A nighttime set, looks like Tom L Gray was digging in.

My campsite for the festival, slept in the back of my 1981 Plymouth Arrow pickup truck.

Looking out toward the stage from my campsite
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