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Yep, yours truly got picked to work the weeklong Appalachian String Band Festival. I'm taking off Monday and I'll be back sometime Sunday night.

The frestival itself starts on Wed morning. It runs through Sunday. Monday, we've got load in, and set up our quarters. Tuesday, we spend all day building two stages for the performers.

The festival is a rather large competition. Banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar...there are awards for each. Hundreds of competitors, some fantastic bands, and a helluva lot of music. We're expecting over 3,000 people camping on-site, and an additional several thousand attendees.

We, the lucky crew, get the only air-conditioned quarters on the site at Camp Washington Carver in Clifftop WV. Free room and board, and I was told today "Uhmm...don't really worry about alcohol. That's pretty much going to be provided"

It's going to be an awful lot of fun. Where else can you get paid to run a festival with fantastic music, in the wonderful outdoors of WV and have the moonshine provided to you?

I'll see you all next week, I don't think I'll have a chance to post before I take off.

Be well, folks!