Hello friends,
It was nice to see everyone at the jam last night.  There was some mighty fine picking going on and one of the Anderson boys won the Stanley Brothers, 2 pack CD.

I wanted to make a special announcement about the Brookside Bluegrass Festival, featuring the  Daily and Vincent on April 4th, 2013 at 7:00pm at Wornall Road Baptist Church  Please click the church’s link to get directions.

Dailey and Vincent are a Grammy nominated group (in 2012 and 2013) and IBMA group of the year among the most in demand bluegrass groups in the world.  Don’t miss this chance to experience Dailey and Vincent in the historic and intimate setting of Wornall Road Baptist Church, Thursday April 4th at 7:00 P.M.  Limited to 400 seats be sure to get your tickets early.  Bringing world class musicians to the heart of Brookside is just one more way we enjoy serving our neighbors.

IMPORTANT:  The Dailey and Vincent  performance will be opened by a local bluegrass family band.  Below is a quote from their website.  Read more about them below and click on their website link to find out how to get discount tickets to the festival.

Anderson Family – Anderson Bluegrass is a family of seven brothers and their sister. By either taking lessons or picking up an instrument on their own they certainly have talent in music. Whether singing or picking, they have found the bluegrass genre to be a favorite.We want to be an encouragement to those for whom we play.  We play traditional bluegrass, gospel, many hymns, and also songs written for us or written by us.  You don’t want to miss this event so sign up early.  Hope to see you there!

Bill Barker
Banjo Info

Hello friends,
It has been a while since I posted an update to this website.  If you remember, we cancelled our February jam due to the snow storm.   So now it is time to get back in the swing of things at the “Picking in the Heartland Jam”.  Our next jam is March 22nd at 6:30 so I hope you can make it.   Don’t forget we have a free CD give away each month.  Please invite your friends.

Here lately, I have been listening to one of my favorite band, being “Blue Highway”.   They have so many great songs but I really enjoy a song called “Lonesome Pine” and wanted to share it today.  There harmonies are fantastic and they are just a bunch of great musicians.  I am not sure if they wrote the song, but they sure do a great job of performing it.  Hope you enjoy it as well.

This is one of the best bluegrass songs.

I can’t resist to share this video also.  WOW, what harmony and a great message!  Enjoy.