Oh it’s gonna be big. HUGE. I DARE SAY, COLOSSAL! The 1st Annual Summer Hootenanny will take place Saturday August 18th, from 5:00PM to 2:00 AM at the Devil's Canyon Brewery in Belmont. FREE ADMISSION!

The evening will feature 3 bands on the outdoor stage, plus an indoor "Tweener" stage, with special guests, an Open-Mic session, and a late-night all-star jam, so bring your axes (Guitars), hatchets (Mandolins) and pen knives (HellifIKnow, sounded good)!

Featured Bands include:

Pathetic Honey is a grassy, greasy, gooey rockin jam-band [Bluegrass Advisory Warning: Drums Ahead], featuring hot picking, singing, and great original material. Pathetic Honey is Dan Newitt (guitar, dobro), David Barrow (guitar), Greg Lauer (mando), Kevin Kelsey (bass), and Karl Jesse on drums.

Wires-n-Wood is an acoustic quartet, playing a wide range of dawggy, swingy, jazzy grassy jazzgrass stuff that will have your head spinning and your toes tapping. W&W includes Ted Kratter (guitar, mando), Larry Weissenborn (bass), Steve Joynes (fiddle) and Scott Klein (mando, guitar).

The Stoney Mountain Ramblers play energetic traditional and progressive bluegrass, newgrass, JerryGrass, etc. High-lonesome harmonies, barn-burning instrumentals, and the "odd" cover. SMR includes Steve Joynes (fiddle), "Woodie" Woodell (mando), Gary Anwyl (dobro), Robert Zeien (guitar), Bill Hamburgen (bass) and Scott Dailey (banjo).

As you know, the brewery is only open to the public one day a month, (Beer Friday!) so this is a special occasion indeed. Bill Monroe would be psyched! (Belle Monroe probably would be too). Beers are only $3, and there will be cash Barbecue available too. Devil's Canyon Brewery Presents:

1st Annual Summer Hootenanny
August 18, 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM
FREE!

5:00 – Stoney Mountain Ramblers
6:30 – Pathetic Honey
8:00 – Wires & Wood
9:15 – Pathetic Honey
10:30 – Stoney Mountain Ramblers
11:30 – All-Star Jam

Important – be sure to check the brewery's website for directions – MapQuest et all give slightly wrong directions!

What exactly is a Hootenanny? Thanks for asking! Hootenanny was used in the early twentieth century America to refer to things whose names were forgotten or unknown. In this usage it was synonymous with thingamajig or whatchamacallit, as in "hand me that hootenanny." Hootenanny was also an old country word for "party". Now, most commonly, it refers to a folk-music party.

According to Pete Seeger, in various interviews, he first heard the word hootenanny in Seattle, Washington in the late 1930s. It was used by Hugh Delacey’s New Deal political club to describe their monthly music fund raisers. After some debate the club voted in the word hootenanny, which narrowly beat out the word wingding. Seeger, Woody Guthrie and other members of the Almanac Singers later used the word in New York City to describe their weekly rent parties, which featured many notable folksingers of the time. Joan Baez made the analogy that a hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz.

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