What a great third jam that was!

Just want to thank everyone who came out and picked a few tunes tonight. This was the biggest and best turn out yet. It was truly a night of guitar players, but man were there some good guitar licks being passed around. It was also nice to have some younger old time pickers stop by for a bit. Always great to play some of those old great melodies. 

Over all it was quite the night and we can not wait for more like it. And it is so great we are all meeting. Good things are happening for the Des Moines Bluegrass scene.

Some pictures are posted on the facebook page if you would like to see them.

www.facebook.com/desmoinesbluegrass

Sunday Jam!   
Mars Cafe @ 7:00pm
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Calling all pickers, just a reminder to come out and check out the jam tomorrow at Mars Cafe!   All standard benefits still apply, great drinks and a nice environment to hang and play some tunes.  See you all tomorrow! 

March 18th Jam at Mars Cafe

The next Jam is approaching... join us this Sunday at Mars Cafe at 7pm.  Bring your instruments or just come and watch!  We would love to see some new faces.

Here is a link to our facebook event page.  Please share it with your friends. Thanks! 

https://www.facebook.com/events/356276321062009/

More new songs to learn.

We finally got a few more songs up in the "Tune of the Week" section. Check them out, they are both a lot of fun to play. One is more oldtime, and the other is more new bluegrassy. Enjoy!

Also added some more info to the shows page. There are a few monthly/weekly events that are worth mentioning.

Check out the brand new page on the site. 

TUNE OF THE WEEK

Every week we are going to be putting up videos to teach a new fiddle tune that someone could perhaps call out at a future jam. One video will be Andrew and Bryan playing the song normal speed, then another video of the melody being played slower. We hope this will help people build up a larger list of instrumental tunes to play.

This week we started with two songs. Ashland Breakdown and New Chance Blues.

Check them out  in the Tune of the Week section.

Enjoy!

Last Night's Bluegrass Jam

We had a lot of fun at the first DSM Bluegrass Jam and we were happy to see some old friends and meet some new ones!  Throughout the night there were 11-12 musicians that played and many spectators. Thanks everyone who came out to support our growing bluegrass community.  We're looking forward to the next jam at Mars Cafe on March 4th.

We have some photos and videos posted on the Des Moines Bluegrass Facebook page... https://www.facebook.com/pages/Des-Moines-Bluegrass/342580992436476

Here's one of the videos taken by Cathy Prince.  

TONIGHT TONIGHT

     The day has finally come, the first Des Moines Bluegrass Jam is hours away. I hope people are home re-stringing and warming up the vocal chords, cause we are ready to play some songs.
   
     Andrew and Bryan will be on the radio for a bit this after noon to talk more about the jam and maybe some up coming plans for us here and Des Moines Bluegrass. Feel free to listen and KFMG 99.1 in the Des Moines area, or KFMG991.org for outside the Des Moines area.

     Hope to see you all tonight, no matter if you are playing or just watching!!!