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Introduction
Featured
Jam Sessions:
Anutt
(D&D Little Branson)
Fremont
Gainesville
(Hoerman Park)
Kissee
Mills
(Johnson Community Building)
Long
Beach
(Mtn. Grove School)
Long
Lane
Manes
(Manes
Music Makers)
Mansfield
McClurg
McDowell
Mountain
View (Weaver's)
Souder
Springfield
(North Town Mall)
Strafford
Wasola
(Stone's)
Related
Events:
Opry's:
Webster Co. Opry
Picnics:
Vanzant Picnic
Fiddle
Competitions and Festivals:
Branson Fiddle Contest, Compton Ridge, and Ozarks
Celebration Festival
Dances:
Ava and Ebenezer
Homecomings:
Horsecreek Church
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Pennington's
Store and Fremont Park
Fremont, MO
Every Friday Evening
The jam session
started around 1995 largely through the efforts of Darren Osborne,
a mandolin player in the Missouri Bluegrass Band. Bluegrass
music is featured, but visitors will also see old-time fiddle
music and dancing. Darren believes jam sessions are the
best way for young people to learn to play music.
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| The mandolin is a favorite instrument among the
musicians, several of whom are students of mandolin player Darren
Osborne in the red shirt. Other instruments include harmonica,
played by Ivan Osborne, and guitar. Fiddlers and banjo players
also attend the jam session occasionally.
Directions from Springfield: drive east on US-60 for approximately
140 miles to Fremont [See
map]. Photographs are from July 28, 2000.
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People start to gather early in the evening in front
of Pennington Trading Post, a 100-year-old working general store
run by Burt Pennington. |
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Slowly the musicians begin to sit in a circle and
play music across the street under the pavillion at the Fremont
Park. |
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Occasionally listeners will get up and jig dance
or clog while the musicians play. |
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As the evening grows dark, other musicians, including
a fiddler, show up and play until the jam breaks up around 10 p.m. |
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