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The production of the bluegrass ramble has been made possible by a grant from the eastern Educational Television Network. Everywhere money went I mean upstate New York right by Syracuse the bluegrass ramble. Today's edition we. Work from Ontario is going to be with us right now in Madison from Rochester and so dismaying New York and up by them if you will. AS.
I am. Now. I. Am. And I. Am. Oh. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
If. You watch Santa. Can you come out. Oh Miss Sampson. Not me. Yet. Oh. No that's not me. Yes. Thank ye. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. We are from Pittel County Pennsylvania which is right smack dab in the middle of the state monitors the Bantu you know the far right on your left playing a banjo is Joe Detroit. This little guy is what they call one of the bluegrass heavyweights. He was done when the mandolin was named Greg moment.
From our cave in Pennsylvania doing a real good job based religion playing one long time as Phil reader. OK time to bring in Mr. Bill hands on the talk. I was walking. You just. Said foreign law. And as I look around me to know where that. Life. Was doing. I saw a golden ring of sunlight. Still
exploding or the sky I've been. Reading your role in life. History. And the more I look around me you look the more I read your lifestyle and living your life. Oh let. Me. See you in a store.
Me me me. Well Tyler Cowen looter a book in the sky. And the. Sun. Just. With. My. Hand on me. Lol Kim was a real blow. So I tell this guy and I said I saw you and. Although does not speak to him. You. Mean you. Everywhere. Dame news but. When.
He saw the raw me he's. Not LOL. Newt is by God. Lol. Thank you very much close your sympathetic today. But we ran into a trooper on the way up and we didn't really run into such a great job of driving the patient and for being such a good driver I guess they don't treat me that way in Pennsylvania. Wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. A.
Wonderful resort area that we have in upstate New York. Please welcome if you will the partner Karen Madison. That. Someone. Knows his mother Rocky. Not bear the other cat. So you know we. Know. You. Seem. To. Want to bring the Rocky Top looking for a John still. This great Jersey
Rocky Top regular They never will. The current don't grow at all IMO. ROCKY TOP TO ROCK by far. That's why all the focus from rockets up their horn in a jar. With a lot when you're. At all will rock it back into. It. All.
Right. Now. I am. Thank you thank you so much. And we don't know the name of this. It's called. Something. I am. And I have. A
and. I and. And I and with. And. And. With. With. With. With.
I am at the I am at the I am at the I am. You surmise we like to fiddle around a little bit now but.
We call this the turkey medley and we sometimes say for all you turkeys out there. Arkansas traveler and ragtime man. What. Do. You.
Do. It. For. You. Write. It Up. It.
Let it. Go. It. It. It. It. It. It it. We're going to go to West right now right past Rochester right across Niagara Falls
right past St. Catharines and down into Burlington Ontario Canada bluegrass thrives in Canada as well as it does in the U.S. And please welcome to the bluegrass ramble if you will. A real find from Burlington Ontario breastworks. It's it that she'd love me to. Come with me in the rain nobody will write me. No I think that's just me. Let me.
Look you know that's. Right. Me take the best deal. Is that right. Well they're right. That's.
Right. We came a long way to come down here and play we've been looking forward to it for a long time it's nice to get across the border. It's felt here on the banjo was voted the best banjo player in Canada this year and we think he deserves the west and from. Down here on the mandolin is my favorite mandolin player and truck driver by far. Gavin on the mandolin concert. Another award winner in the band guitar from Burlington sings all the lead for us and our guitar player who will go to the best guitar player in all of Canada this year.
Well that's. Next. It's an original to the ducks and it's a real pretty song one called. Oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh. Please don't.
Cry. On my. Son my. Boy. Put him out and buy me. My wheat. Leak. On.
What. You. Eat. Me good. Thank you very much. You're quite. Right. Madison. Ontario Canada.
On the eastern edge.
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Series
Bluegrass Ramble
Episode Number
401- 402
Episode
The Last Complete Show, Drew Freck & Karen Maddison, Grassworks
Producing Organization
WCNY
Contributing Organization
WCNY (Liverpool, New York)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/35-84zgn1z6
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Description
Episode Description
Performances by the Last Complete Show, Drew Freck & Karen Maddison, and Grassworks.
Series Description
Bluegrass Ramble is a performance show featuring bluegrass and old time country music and dancing from performers from the Northeastern United States and Canada.
Created Date
1984-04-29
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Performance
Topics
Music
Dance
Rights
Copyright 1984 Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:29:14
Credits
Director: Robinson, Andy
Executive Producer: Roberts, Nancy
Host: Knowlton, Bill
Performer: Freck, Drew
Performer: Maddison, Karen
Performing Group: The Last Complete Show (Musical group)
Performing Group: Grassworks (Musical group)
Producing Organization: WCNY
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WCNY
Identifier: K1932 (WCNY)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:59:50
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Citations
Chicago: “Bluegrass Ramble; 401- 402; The Last Complete Show, Drew Freck & Karen Maddison, Grassworks,” 1984-04-29, WCNY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 25, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-35-84zgn1z6.
MLA: “Bluegrass Ramble; 401- 402; The Last Complete Show, Drew Freck & Karen Maddison, Grassworks.” 1984-04-29. WCNY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 25, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-35-84zgn1z6>.
APA: Bluegrass Ramble; 401- 402; The Last Complete Show, Drew Freck & Karen Maddison, Grassworks. Boston, MA: WCNY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-35-84zgn1z6