Bluegrass at Lucketts

It's here!  

Bluegrass at Lucketts
The 2003-2004 Season


4 Oct   - Charlie Smith and The Potomac Valley Boys 40th Anniversary Reunion

11 Oct  - Bob Paisley and The Southern Grass / Page County Ramblers 

18 Oct  - Recent Addition / Low Profile

25 Oct  - East Virginia / Ross Nickerson & The Fast Brothers

1 Nov  -  Gary Brewer and The Kentucky Ramblers / David Davis and The Warrior River Boys 

8 Nov  -  Dave Evans and River Bend / Pete Milano & Shaw Brothers 

15 Nov - The Scott Brannon Band / The Bluegrass Brothers

22 Nov – Nothin’ Fancy 

6 Dec  -  Charlie Waller and The Country Gentlemen 

13 Dec - The Kevin Church Band / Michelle Nixon & Drive 

20 Dec  - Heather Berry and The Berry Pickers / Appalachian Express

10 Jan  - Patent Pending / Tom Mindte and The Patuxent Partners

17 Jan  - New Girls Nite Out / Sanbower ~ Garris & No Leeway 

24 Jan  - Alvin Breeden and The Virginia Cutups / The Travelers 

31 Jan  - Iron Ridge / Open Road 

7 Feb   -  Lonesome Highway / Blue Daze Blue Daze 

14 Feb  - In The Tradition / Phoenix

21 Feb  - Bob Paisley and The Southern Grass/ The Shaw Brothers with Pete Milano 

28 Feb  - Jay Armsworthy and Eastern Tradition / Shenandoah Blue

6 Mar   -  Larry Sparks and The Lonesome Rambler

13 Mar  - Five Of A Kind / The Timmons Family with Gary Weber 

20 Mar  -Tom Gray, Les Woodie, Tony Ellis and Dave Verny / Lost and Found
27 Mar  - David Parmley & Continental Divide

3 Apr   -  Melvin Goins and Windy Mountain / Orange Line Special 

10 Apr  - Leon Morris and Associates / Dean Sapp and Harford Express 

17 Apr  - The Scott Brannon Band / The Carolina Road Band 

24 Apr  - Code Blue / Appalachian Express

Email me for a downloadable version  in Microsoft Word (to put on the refrigerator).

Many of you who follow Bluegrass at Lucketts asked for and received the schedule via email for the 2002-2003 season.   I am  going to try to continue that system so email addresses now on file will receive the new schedule for the 2003-2004 season.

As last year, admission is $10, no food or recording equipment is allowed and snacks will be available in the kitchen. 

The shows start at 7:00 p.m. with doors open at 6:00 p.m. 
For further information, contact the Historic Lucketts Community Center at (703) 771-5281. 

Spring Garden Series

Another Spring Garden Series concludes and attention turns to the yard and garden.  The Series will return next years with perhaps new subjects.  We would like to hear from you - what subjects do you want taught?  What interests you?  Let us know either at the Lucketts Community Center at 703-771-5281 or at the Master Gardener office in Leesburg.

 Car Show?????

 Lucketts 2005

An Auto Show for the Whole Family

   Lucketts 2004 was successful beyond our dreams.  The field was full of top quality antique cars - vendors sold a variety of goods and tasty food and the corral had some top notch cars for sale.
Both fields, the Green Field and Brown Field, had a wide selection of cars from all the major manufacturers and outfitted from strickly stock to bona fide hot rods.  By the numbers, there were 215 cars on the fields and about 1750 spectators.  
We expect more and better at Lucketts 2005. 

 
And
come, join us in

Continuing the Celebration of America's Love Affair with the Automobile
on
Sunday, 25 September 2005

Featuring:

An Auto Showof cars, trucks and other vehicles 25 or more years old.
A Flea Market selling car parts, crafts and other stuff of interest to us all. 
A Car Corral selling cars of any age.
Bluegrass musicin the pavilion.
The Bulletin Board where car for sale notices, other shows, parts needed or for sale and anything else of interest to the motoring world can be posted. 
A Reading and Reference Material Exchange Tablewhere magazines, books, catalogs and other material can be exchanged.  Bring already read material, put it on the table and take what interests you.
And lots more....

Come visit the past and bring the kids... 

That Herb Garden:  If you have not tried to grow a herb garden, you might be in for a pleasant surprise.  Many of the herbs are very easy to grow and can be used both for flavoring and aroma. he old stand-by mint is always a favorite.  It is used in ice tea, as a fragrant  addition to flower arrangements in the home and a pleasant addition to the outdoor garden.  A species of mint,
peppermint, is somewhat stronger than other mint plants and has a refreshing aroma when it is touched. Thyme is a very large group of aromatic plants long cultivated and valued as both ornamental and culinary herbs.  When planted in the seams of a rock path, they can soften the appearance and provide a delicious fragrance when walked on.  Garden or common thyme and lemon thyme are important for their flavor and belong in the herb garden.  And my personal favorite,  going back to six years is Italy, is basil.  There have been many lunches eaten on the streets of  Rome made up of sliced tomato and mozzarella, a sprinkle of vinegar and olive oil and topped with basil. This area has more than its share of native herbs.  Among them is purple coneflower, used by some to prevent the cold - and it certainly will raise your spirits when you see it flowering in the summer.  Black cohosh is sold in pharmacies and health food stores and is a very fine tall late summer blooming  perennial.  It's especially at home in the shaded areas of the forest edge. Saint-John's wort is widely sold over the counter for its medical properties but can also be grown
as an ornamental flower, a ground cover and a shrub.  (As an aside, wort is an old English word meaning plant).  Rosemary, while not native to this area, is widely cultivated here as a flavoring for cooking as well as for an oil  used as a medicine.  It can be treated as a perennial if it protected from the cold part of the winter and will grow up to 4 feet tall under ideal conditions. Herbs can be a wonderful addition to your garden, offering different aromas to the air, flavoring for food and serving as attractive ornamental plantings. 

Integrated Pest Management.  It is no secret that when the plants begin to grow, the pests also begin to grow.  In calling them pests, both weeds (plants in places you don't want them) and bugs (insects that damage your garden) are included.  It used to be that powerful herbicides were used to control those plants that were not wanted, but those chemicals made their way into the streams and waterways only to kill off life there also.  And the all purpose insecticide DDT was widely used against all manner of bugs, until our national emblem, the bald eagle, started to disappear and the incidence of breast cancer took a sharp rise. In addition, the widespread use of these pesticides took a toll of the beneficial insects that has, since the beginning of time kept the undesirable insects in check.  We were killing the good guys as well as the bad guys. A new method of pest control has developed that is based on two principal themes.  The first is that pests are here to stay and it is necessary only to see that they do not do substantial damage to the
environment, which includes your garden.  The second is that there are many ways to control the damage and all of them should be used, not simply reaching for the chemicals.  This new method is called integrated pest management (IPM) and is extremely effective in controlling damaging pests in
the garden and home.  I urge each of you to read up on this and use its principals in your garden. You can get additional details about IPM at the Loudoun County Extension Office in Leesburg or by calling the Loudoun County Master Gardener help line at 703-771-5150. 

I wish you good gardening.
                                           Don