[Dixielandjazz] Washboard concert

[Bill Gunter]

Hi all,

Mike Short asketh:

>Does anyone remember the first meeting of the International Washboard 
>Society
>in Sacramento, I think it was 1985.  About 100 washboard players, Robbie
>Rhoades on piano, Bob Rahn on tuba and Leon Oakley on trumpet.  I've never 
>laughed
>so hard in my life.

Do I remember!!! I'm the guy who organized the first Washboard Concert in 
Sacramento, but it wasn't '85, it was '83 and it started pretty small. In 
'85 Robbie Rhodes played piano and he wore a hard hat to the gig. Very 
funny!!!

For the last dozen years or so the rhythm section from High Sierra has been 
the back up . . . Bruce and Stan Huddleston, Earl McKee along with Ken 
Keeler and a few others from the Devil Mountain Jazz Band.

For an overview of the event you can log onto a wonderful website called 
Washboards.com. It gives a good rundown of many current washboard players. 
You can also read about the history of the Sacramento Jazz Festival 
Washboard Concert.  Just click on this:

http://www.washboards.com/history.htm

By the way, it has been 22 years since we started it and it's still going 
strong in Sacramento. For whatever reason it has become one of the more 
popular concerts of the entire festival . . . go figure!!

Respectfully submitted,

Bill "Thimbles" Gunter
jazzboard at hotmail.com

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