The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

I really do hate to use this column for promotional purposes, but I’d like to take this opportunity to put in a plug for an upcoming event.

If you’ve read my column for a while, you know that I don’t do this for most “upcoming events.” But the following upcoming event is special.

It helps to support local music.

And to keep an important piece of American folk culture alive.

And to teach adorable little kids how to play banjos twice their size.

And to give cranky, rebellious teenagers the ability to turn their lives around and become cranky, rebellious teenagers with mandolins.

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