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Parsons
Welcome to the 10th Annual

A Celebration of Bluegrass & Hillbilly Music

YOUR
BULLETIN BOARD

Five River Camp Ground is proud to welcome you for four days of music, friends, and memories. We started Pickin’
in Parsons as a one day music fest back in 2004, and we are proud of what it has grown into.
We hope you love this year’s festival and look forward to hearing all about your experience, so we can continue to
provide you with the best Bluegrass has to offer. Enjoy! - John & Joyce.
™

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Parking

Free parking a short distance from the seating area.

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Handicapped Parking

All parking for persons with a disability and appropriate state issued
handicapped parking credentials will be located behind the seating area.

Pick up a free copy today at the T-Shirt Booth.
Seating

You may not leave chairs in the seating area until after the picnic on Wednesday night.
For the convenience of all, unoccupied chairs may be used by anyone until the owner returns.
Where ever you stand or sit please pick up your trash and deposit appropriately.

Origin of “Bluegrass”

Tobacco Policy
Exactly There is to be no smoking under anywas adopted to label this form of music is not certain, tolerated
when the word bluegrass itself public shelter or in any public buildings. Chewing tobacco is but is believed to
as was derived not spitting on the the seminal Blue Grass properly.
be in the late 1950s, and long as you arefrom the name ofground and it is disposed of Boys band, formed in 1939 with
It is our goal to provide a clean, safe environment for all. Please help us with this.
Bill Monroe as its leader. Due to this lineage, Bill Monroe is frequently referred to as the "father of bluegrass",
although his style drew upon the country, gospel, and blues music with which he had grown up.
Festival Rules
Pickin’ in Parsons is held rain or shine- we recommend you bring clothing for all seasons.
There is no official quiet time, however, we ask that you be respectful of your neighbors.

Monroe's 1946 to 1948 band, which featured banjo prodigy Earl Scruggs, singer-guitarist Lester Flatt, fiddler
Chubby Wise and bassist Howard Watts (alsofew things "Cedricnot allow:
There are a known as we do Rainwater")—sometimes called "the original
No transferring of Armbands
bluegrass band"—created the definitive sound and instrumental configuration that remains a model to this day.
No Alcohol or drugs
By some arguments, while the Blue Grass Boys were the only band playing this music, it was just their unique
No weapons
sound; it could not be considered a musical No pets in the concert areabegan performing in similar fashion. In 1948,
style until other bands
No ATVs or golf carts on grounds and Tenbrooks" glass
the Stanley Brothers recorded the traditional song "Mollyor camping areas Noin the Blue Grass Boys' style, argucontainers in the musical form. As Ralph Stanley himself said about the
ably the point in time that Bluegrass emerged as a distinctConcert area
No tents or canopies in the concert area
origins of the genre and its name:
Campfires
Oh, (Monroe) wasAll campfiresBut itbe in a firecalled bluegrass back then. It was just strictly Enforced. mountain hillbilly
the first. must wasn't ring. Do not put trash in your campfire. This is called old time
music. When they started doing the bluegrassEmergency 1965, everybody got together and wanted to know
festivals in #’s
If you have an emergency or need assistance please was 304-642-2877, 304-642-5486 from the bluegrass state
what to call the show, y'know. It was decided that since Bill call the oldest man, and was or 911.
of Kentucky and he had the Blue Grass Boys, it would be called 'bluegrass.'"

Congratulations Pickin’ in Parsons!
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