"God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman"- Bluegrass Style- At Historic Netherland Inn & Boatyard

"God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" is the opening number for a group I have known as "Strange Brew" and "Fiddle 'n Blues" from other appearances, but they may now have a different nom de plume. They provided an hour of bluegrass themed Christmas and Holiday music on Sunday afternoon of 6 December 2009 at the Netherland Inn's "Holiday At The Inn", a three day celebration of music, refreshments, and tours of the historical site. This was performed in the ground floor "tavern" area and lighting was not that great for video (1800 authentic).

Visit the Netherland Inn site:
http://www.netherlandinn.com/html/tour.html

The historic Netherland Inn and Boatyard is a foundation-operated historical and cultural museum. From the late 1700s until the mid-1800s this location was the head of flatboat navigation on a river transportation system that conveyed salt (Saltville, Virginia), lumber (locally cut and made into flatboats) and iron products (Kingsport area forges) down the Holston, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers as far as New Orleans. This settlement had many early names but principally was known as King's Port which eventually became Kingsport. Development of the railroads and other economic change eventually ended the flatboat era. The boat crews would travel overland, often walking, to make the trip again.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Christmas
• old
• time
• bluegrass
• music
• Fiddle
• 'n
• Blues
• Kingsport
• Tennessee
• Netherland
• Inn
• Boatyard
• flatboats
• river
• travel
• banjo
• fiddlers
• mandolin
• Fidellis
• Strange
• Brew

[Creepydorky]

Great job! :)

[gregoryagogo]

Super-Neeto! Very nice... Beautiful!