By Beka Compton
The Times
Where the (blue)grass grows
The Touchet Valley Acoustic Music Project has deep roots in Waitsburg, stretching into more than 20 years of inspiring musicians of all ages.
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March 24, 2022
Kate Hockersmith
Bluegrass musicians and enthusiasts gathered at Kristin Darrow's (center) Big Red Barn last Friday for a Mythical, Moveable Blue Mountain Bluegrass Jam. This is just one of the ways TVAMP brings music to the valley. Full story on the Last Page.
When Kate Hockersmith convinced me to join her music group after school in 2010, I never thought I'd be writing about it in The Times more than a decade later.
I spent much of my childhood inspired by the Blue Mountain Troublemakers, a bluegrass band led by Hockersmith, who traveled as far as Sasayama, Japan (Walla Walla's sister city), to perform. Walking into the Hockersmith home as a peewee 4-H'er, I was awestruck by the music flowing out of the basement.
The Troublemakers formed in 2003, after Hockersmith's son, John, watched 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' and talked his friends into watchin...
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