Mark your calendar for the DC Bluegrass Union's annual jam session and barbecue! Tune up your instruments for an afternoon of picking and grilling at the picnic shelter in Cherry Hill Park. DCBU will provide burgers, hot dogs, and sodas. Kids and families are welcome; feel free to bring your favorite side dish.

I am hoping you all have had a great holiday season!
If you missed the Holiday Pickin' Party, you need to know about some changes...
For the next few months please mail any Applications and Payment for membership to me...

Bruce Day
7103 Terry Lane
Falls Church, VA
22042

I will be changing the records keeping for the club during the weeks ahead, so bear with me!

ATTENTION: the membership approved a dues increase at the business meeting to:

$30 individual
$45 family/corporate/band
$15 associate (17 years or under)

Time to invite all pickers and fans to the CABOMA Summer Pick-Nic At Lyon Park!
Come and join us under the trees at the Lyon Park Community Center, it is always a great time with good Food, Friends and Field-pickin'.
We will supply the Burgers, Dogs, Fixin's and Soda; you supply the sides and those sad, sweet songs!

The DC Bluegrass Camp is coming up July 1-5, 2013 in Westminster, MD.

Featuring: Tim O'Brien (songwriting, mandolin)
Rickie Simpkins (fiddle); Wyatt Rice (guitar);
Tom Adams (banjo); Marshall Wilborn (bass)

This is an outstanding opportunity to spend a whole week improving your chops! (Basically, play your ass off and have fun.)
The camp is part of Common Ground on the Hill, a fabulous music/arts gathering. All ages and levels welcome (kids too!).

The Spring Fair is a great family fun day with games, pony rides, food, bake sale and so forth. Our friends in the Lyon Park community want to invite CABOMA to play that day, like a typical CABOMA Sunday jam. It's on the same weekend for CABOMA at Lyon Park, but would offer an opportunity for an additional jam at Lyon Park. Come on out if you can and pick a few tunes on a Saturday for a change - should be a fun time for all!
Thanks to Coordinator Joline McGoldrick and all of the folks in the Lyon park area!

Individual contests, (NEW) Band Contests, Audie Blaylock and Redline, The Quebe Sisters Band, The Hot Seats, Barn Dance with Janine Smith calling, Workshops, Organized Jams for Old Time, Irish, and Bluegrass folks. Loads of space indoors and outdoors for creating and rocking the world with your own jams. Last year we had bluegrass, old time, and swing jams going all over the place. A shiny, brand new Eastman mando will be raffled as well as sweet Smithsonian Folkways CDs! Frank Cassel will be engaging the kids in Kid's shows. There is even beer and wine and BBQ and Pizza and stuff.

Russell Moore & Third Tyme Out...
The Lonesome River Band...
...plus Lonesome Highway, The Woodshedders, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Dry Mill Road,
Circa Blue, Stoney Creek, Travellin' Hillbillies, Porch Picker's Brigade and the Banana Express Band!

"Early-bird" Ticket Prices are available for a very limited time!.... Prices are as follows: "Weekend Pass" is $45
"Saturday ONLY" ticket is$25

UPDATE !! - DATE CHANGE

Sunday, July 10, 2-6pm
The Capital Area Bluegrass and Old-time Music Association invites all to our annual picnic and jam. We ask that you bring a side to share and your instruments, voices, and/or ears. We will provide
burgers, dogs, buns and soda.

There will be a raffle - we welcome donations in kind if they might be attractive to your fellow music lovers.