I’ve been playing guitar for a while and love bluegrass, blues, rock, country, and folk. Lately I’ve been working on my pentatonic scales and getting more into blues guitar. I found the forum through one of Justin’s YouTube videos and figured I’d jump in. Glad to be here! Looking forward to connecting and learning with you all.
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Hey Kevin, welcome to the community. I’m a fan of lots of the same sort of music, played in an old time band for a couple of years. Look forward to hearing more from you.
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Welcome 
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Hello Kevin ,
Welcome here and I wish you a lot of fun 
Greetings,Rogier
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welcome Kevin 
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Welcome to the community Kevin!
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Thanks! That’s great — I love old time music too. Would love to hear about the tunes you played.
Porters reel was one we played regularly.
Here’s a video, I’m the one standing at the back of the stage
The rhythm part that I played was relatively simple. Mainly had to be on top of very quick chord changes. I never learned the melody of any of the pieces we did
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That’s great — honestly, solid rhythm in an old time band is no small thing. Those quick changes can keep you on your toes. Locking in with the fiddler and keeping the groove steady is huge.
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Hi Kevin, welcome to the community.
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Nice to meet you Kevin and a warm welcome to our Community! 
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My 2 years or so with that band was a lot of fun. More from the people involved than the music, enthusiastic encouraging and just plain silly / fun. We are fortunate in the South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales to have a lot of Old Timey interest and activitiies. The Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass festival every year has an Old Timey school in the week leading up to the festival, as well as the Wadesville Woolies
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That’s my kind of jamming. Sounds like a great scene down there.
The Huntingdon County Arts Council in Pennsylvania hosts the Pennsylvania Folk Gathering each fall and Folk College each spring — very similar vibe and a great mix of musicians.
I’ve had the chance a couple of times to play rhythm guitar in the band for the Contra dancers on Saturday night. Loads of fun!
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Besides the Dorrigo festival and the wadesville woolies (that nickname is funny, it’s a general store in a tiny hamlet (wadesville) and woolies is the local nickname for the Woolworths grocery story, one of 2 large grocery store chains down under), the local pub at Uki has a weekly jam led by the organiser of the wadesville woolies weekend and there are plenty of informal jams and several camping weekends a year. all well attended.
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That sounds like an incredible scene — I love how much regular activity you all have going on. Weekly pub jam plus camping weekends? That’s the good stuff.
And I have to admit, “Wadesville Woolies” is a fantastic nickname 
There’s something special about those small-town music gatherings. My ancestors came over from Scotland a few centuries ago — if we’d stayed, I’d probably be right there at the pub jam with you!
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This was my year at Folk College in Pennsylvania. It was a very similar atmosphere. Lots of jamming, workshops, and late-night music.
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Hello Kevin & Welcome!!!
I hope you have lots of fun playing guitar!!!
Good luck!!!
Tod from New Mexico
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That’s awesome. Very similar in size (50 to a bit over 100) that we see at the various camping weekends. Fun fun fun
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Wow, that’s a huge group. We’ve had jams that go till sunrise the next day although the older I get the earlier I seem to turn in these days.
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