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Wednesday Jam

Posted on January 7, 2011

Local folks who like to play bluegrass, they have been getting together on Wednesday nights for over 40 years. They never had a name for their group so I just call it “The Wednesday Jam”.

When I came across them they had been playing in Pete and Cindy Howe’s kitchen where I took these videos.  I like their music, I like them, and I am really wild about the diverse make-up of the group. So I shot this video in the kitchen, just as it was, no lighting or rehearsals. Join me and enjoy their music!

This is one of my favorites, “Farther Along”

How about an encore? Joe Clark.  Let’s see who finishes first!

4 thoughts on “Wednesday Jam”

  1. susan treacy says:
    March 19, 2022 at 6:23 am

    love this, lots of talent in small towns.

    Reply
  2. Amanda Mason says:
    April 14, 2019 at 4:32 pm

    I absolutely love this!!
    Cindy and Pete are my grandparents.
    I could listen to this all day and still get goosebumps!

    Reply
    1. stan says:
      April 15, 2019 at 8:17 am

      Dear Amanda,

      I am so glad you discovered this! Pete and Cindy are our favorite people and we miss them so much. Have you seen the other videos of Pete’s family on the farm in Falls Vilage? https://pineplainsviews.com/2011/01/06/how-they-farmed/
      Give them best regards from Sarah and Stan!

      Reply
  3. Max MacPherson Jr says:
    July 10, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    I enjoyed the bluegrass music very much. I’m coming down to Pine Plains on Wednesday, the 11th of July and plan to bring my guitar. If your regular get together is still on I would like to join you all.

    Reply

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I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.

But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns.

And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.

I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.

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