Fathering Fathers Day Week

Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where for one month and three days Lynn and I are dog-sitting a nine-month-old pup names Rufuss. Ted Silverman, well-known mando player who lives in the City, has gone off to Europe with his family and we’re up to five. In many ways,...

Father’s Day

Sunday is Father’s Day.  We ought to all be out there picking, singing, harmonizing and listening to great bands but circumstances have changed and we must now avoid crowds in order to stay safe and avoid nasty viral infections.  It’s not fair but we need to...

Father’s Day Fest

    Wow! What a fun, festival weekend! My legs and feet are tired from walking, but I’m not sunburnt, so I can’t really complain. How about that weather? I camped in a tent, hoping it wouldn’t rain so much that I would wake up wet. There was enough...

Fathers Day Festival #43

You’ll see my ugly mug to the left for an entire week and a couple days; that’s because each year during festival week the web team takes a well-deserved vacation to they can enjoy our festival without  distraction.If you have a question about the...

Fathers Day, again

Chef Mike says, “ya gotta start pacing yourself. Cliff.” and I know he’s right. I can’t be acting the fool. Picking all night. Dancing like a broken teenager whenever the spirit moves me. And you know that tent seems like it’s hotter and colder than it used to be. And...

Favorite time of the year

And here we are again at my favorite time of the year. Some people mark the passage of time birth- day to birthday or holiday season to holiday season but our family has marked the passage of time from Father’s Day week to Father’s Day week (of course, for years that...