Urban Monroes Bluegrass Blog: July Is the Best Month Ever

Hello Everyone, We sure hope your July has been as fun as ours. We played some amazing shows and had an interview in Bluegrass Music Profiles Magazine which you can read by clicking the link.

We played Darrington Bluegrass Festival and had a wonderful time as you can imagine. This was our second year there. It's always a great privilege to play at the grand daddy of the bluegrass festivals in the Pacific Northwest. I love this place. Below are a couple of photos taken by Betty Jo Rose. The mountain photo was our view from the stage. Life is tough isn't it?

Favorite Surprise Comment About Darrington Run Across Accidentally While Surfing the Net: "The Urban Monroes blew me away"

At Darrington, we were impressed with the big Martha White tour bus and since it was National Hot Dog Month, we joked about what it would be like to be sponsored by Oscar Meyer. We thought it might look something like this.

With apologies to Rhonda,the Rage,and Martha White

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We recently played Northwest String Summit 2010. This was our second time. Below are some NWSS pics. What a fantastic festival. We had the most wonderful time.

We have new live tracks from our performance at NWSS streaming in our player at our Myspace site. The first two live tracks from NWSS.
Click Here: Myspace Urban Monroes

For those of you who haven't been there before, I shot this video from back stage to give you a feel for that amazing festival. It's of the Infamous Stringdusters. We played right before them.

Urban Monroes NWSS Parking Video

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Some Favorite Moments:

We blew the roof off the stage at Olalla Bluegrass Festival during our sound check...or we like to think we did anyway. It was very windy that day. The photo just above is of the stage crew desperately trying to re-attach the sail they inadvertently created. This area is not far from the infamous Tacoma Narrows bridge that was blown down in 1940.

Newsreel Footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse

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These are photos taken on the road traveling to and from festivals. Unexpected views in beautiful places