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Picture of the day -
August 30, 2006
The Stevens Family Performing On State Street
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Since it has been a very busy summer for Cheria and me, we
hadn't had a chance to go to any of the Tuesday night
Bluegrass music
concerts under the Country Music mural on
State
Street this season, but a few days ago we learned that
Rachel
Johnson is now performing with the
Stevens
Family Band - and that they would be performing at the mural
this week!
Cheria and I are two of Rachel's biggest fans, so we decided to make
time to go see her and the Stevens Family. It was just beginning to
rain as we parked our car on State Street and some nearby lightning
threatened to cancel the show, but after a few minutes the weather
improved considerably and the show started right on time.
The evening's entertainment started off with an unexpected treat
when Rachel and Josh joined their mom, dad and grandfather on stage
for a very rare family performance. In addition to being some of the
nicest folks you'll ever meet, the members of the
Johnson/Morrell family are also among the most talented. As
always, they did a great job pickin' and singin' several old
Bluegrass favorites before making way for the Stevens Family.
The Stevens Family has been making great music together for a
quarter of a century, yet Rachel's amazing fiddle work and
honey-sweet vocals blend in perfectly with their distinctive
Bluegrass style, adding a new dimension to what was already one of
the finest groups in the genre. It was easy to see that the Stevens'
have really accepted Rachel as a full-fledged member of the band and
that she has a great time pickin' and singin' with them. All in
all, it was a wonderful evening filled with great music performed by
great people on what turned out to be a very pleasant evening in the
Twin Cities.
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