Rosin Dust June 2017

Blue Mountain Old-Time Fiddlers Association

Connecting fiddlers - young and young at heart

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

May 13th took us to Stanfield where we had a

good show and really good entertainers. Carol Bell

and the kitchen staff served a good meal, as always.

Read about the evening and show with Bill and

Lorre Meyers in the Umatilla County news. They

always do a great job.

May 20th found us in La Grande at the La

Grande Senior Center. Vickie Hagey did a great job

organizing the show. Read about the show in the

Union County news in this Rosin Dust. I want to

thank TJ Huitt for his superb help and Jenn and

Melissa from the Wildflower Lodge Assisted Living

for their help. It was much appreciated.

On May 20th in Baker City several of us had

the privilege to play at Nellie Langlitz’ celebration

of life. She was 107 years old. It was a nice service

and many people came to pay tribute and last

respects to her family. Thank you, Les and Evelene

Haynes, and Bob Hunt for being there with me.

Nellie was the oldest member of the BMOTFA ever

that I know of. She was the Baker County's Director

for 25 years and was inducted into the "Hall of

Fame" in 2000. Her husband, Walt was the 3rd

President of the BMOTFA and her brother-in-law,

Albert was the 5th President and was inducted into

the "Hall of Fame" in 1999. We appreciate the

Langlitz family for all the support they have given

over the years. They were members at the start in

1969. Gary and Diane Langlitz, Nellie's son and

daughter in law are still members and attend the

Baker Co. shows.

Sumpter, Saturday May 27th. With so many

things going on we elected not to take our trailer to

Sumpter for this show. We loaded everything into

the pickup and left mid-morning Saturday. When

we hit Sumpter and the school house, Bob Hunt

along with Les and Evelene Haynes were waiting

and helped us unload. We found that they had the

PA system and the room all set up and ready to go

at show time - 1:00 p.m. We had GREAT

entertainment and music. I may be partial to

Sumpter because I really like to go there and the

weather was beautiful but we really did have some

of the greatest music around. But then I could say

that about every show we have.

I would like to thank John Moon for coming

and playing his bass at the 1pm show. Also am glad

that Laura Morin and her family, The Misty River

and Friends Band, brought a bass and played it at

the 6 p.m. show. The Misty River and Friends Band

consist on Laura, Larry and their two boys and

mother and friend. Sounded great.

Bobby and Judy Stevens had not planned to

come but they did!

Played at both shows.

Thanks for making the

show a success.

Here is a little thought I

pass out at shows. A

marketing flier used by

the Canadian Red Cross

gives perspective: "If you

have food in your fridge,

clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a

place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of the

world.

If you have money in the bank, your wallet and

some spare change, you are among the top 8 percent

of the world's wealthy.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle,

the agony of imprisonment or torture or the horrible

pangs of starvation, you are luckier than 500 million

people alive and suffering.

If you can read this message, you are more fortunate

than 3 billion people in the world who cannot read

at all. Consider yourself blessed.”

Please remember to reserve your spot at

Emigrant Spring Campout by calling me or

Michelle Hedgepeth at 541-297-0050

Thank you for your support,

"Carry On"

Your Friend,

Denny Langford, President

WALLOWA COUNTY

Happy June, everyone! I think summer is

finally here!

Like many of you, I have been consumed with

gardening. It's so nice to be getting things in the

ground! I do, however, have to take a break from

playing in the dirt and get everything ready for the

next fiddle show at the Hurricane Creek Grange in

Joseph on June 10! The grange ladies will be fixing

up a delicious chicken dinner, available for just $8,

so plan on joining us

for dinner just before

the show! The

Grange Hall is

located at 63081

Hurricane Creek

Road, in Joseph.

Dinner is at 5PM and

the show starts at

6PM.

There are plenty of other things going on in

Joseph to keep you entertained on that day too! The

Oregon Mountain Cruise Car Show will take place

on Main Street in Joseph from 9AM to 3PM, with

over 200 classic, antique, hot rod, and custom cars

to view! It's touted to be one of the best little car

shows in the Northwest!

Also, for the quilters in your life, the Annual

Wallowa Mountain Quilters Guild will feature over

150 quilts at the Joseph High School, at 400 Wm. E.

Williams Ave. in Joseph. The quilt show takes

place on the same day and time as the car show. The

Joseph Farmer's Market will be going that day too,

right near the car show, so if you're looking for

some fresh produce, goat cheese, locally produced

meats, plants, or crafts, check it out! Just a heads-

up… if you happen to be up here on July 1st,

Homemade Jam Band will be playing at the Joseph

Farmer's Market from 11AM to 1PM!

You can still register for the Wallowa Fiddle

Tunes Camp. The camp will be held at the

Wallowa School, July 9-14. Registration is $200;

lunches are an additional $62 for the week. You

can register online, on the Wallowa Valley Music

Alliance website.

(http://wvmusicalliance.org/wallowa-fiddle-tunes-

camp-2/camp-overview-2017/ ). For questions

about the camp, instructors, and to see what classes

are still open, please contact camp director, Carla

Arnold: 541-663-0776 (home), or 541-786-4535

(cell).

I hope to see you in Joseph on June 10! Now

it's time to get back to the dirt…

Wallowa County Director,

Sandi and Larry Richerson

GRANT COUNTY

Greetings from Grant County

Another month has sped by. It seems not a lot

has changed except the weather. Here the weather

didn't seem to know

whether to rain, snow, or

get hot.

We, Brenda and I

planted our garden

anyway. I put a temporary

greenhouse over the

tomatoes and

cucumbers, which the wind

promptly blew off. Oh well.

Ron Phillips and I traveled to Stanfield thru

the usual spring storms to enjoy some great music

with a lot of great people

Our group, “The Jammers " still meets at the

Valley View Home on Thursday. Surprise us some

time and come by, you are always welcome. We

have a new fiddler joining us, Lori Smith, from

Dayville. It’s great to have her with us. One of our

friends at Valley View had His 100th birthday on

the 28th. Happy Birthday Billy Drinkwater !!! He

sang and yodeled for us quite often in the past.

Ron Phillips said Sumpter show was good as

usual. I'm sorry I missed it. I had to go to

Terrebonne in central Oregon to send an old friend

off on his last trail drive.

I hope to see youall sometime in June, and for sure

in August at the show at the County Fair.

So long from Grant County.

Grant County Director

Carl Stinnett

BAKER COUNTY

I will start off

with the bad news or it

might be good news in

your eyes. Sumpter will

have only one show per

day starting Labor Day

week-end. The show

will start at 1 pm and

last till 3 or 4 pm. We

also will NOT have a

pot luck dinner the Friday before the show. No one

shows up for the pot luck. If you bring a camp

trailer you can still come and camp on Fridays. This

past week end turned out to be a very good show.

We had 24 entertainers in the afternoon and 14

entertainers for the evening show. By the way, the

reason for not having the evening is because of the

lack of spectators. We seem to be playing to

ourselves. We had a lot of good fiddle players as

well as good back-up players. Here is a list of

names that came to Sumpter to play. I also want to

thank you for all the help putting on the show.

Musicians: Bob Hunt, Tom & Carolyn Vickroy, Les

& Evelene Haines, Joan Gray, Mark Ludwick,

Alvin Shaw, Gerry & Joan Myers, Kent Craig,

Carolyn Craig, Ron Phillips, Denny Langford, John

Moon, Julie Milleson, Joe McCutcheon, Veronica

Manis, Ruel Teague, Paula Davenport, Mark &

Cindy Norenberg, Bob Stevens, Larry Cannon,

Vince & Doreen Bingham, Carol Harley, Lou

Morin, Taylor Clark,

AGAIN THANK-YOU FOR ALL THE HELP!

Baker County Director

Bob Hunt

UNION COUNTY

Hello BMOTFA members,

May 20th brought the players to La Grande

Senior Center, the following played for the guests,

who enjoyed a very nice dinner put on by the Senior

Center. They always do a great job and so we thank

them.

Musicians : Vickie Hagey,

Justin Williams, Joan

Gray, Ruth Hodge, Les

and Evelene Haynes, Jo

Shay, Mark Ludwick,

Michelle Hedgepeth,

Sherry Cadwell, Paula

Davenport, Margo Mack,

Melody Huitt, John

Morton, Joe Morton, Veronica Mannis, Julia

Milleson, Margie Vaughn, Dave Vaughn, Cindy

Frick.

It was a great time and it was too short. Days are

longer now and there is more to do. On May 28th I

pull out and head to Vegas. I am so excited, but

then my mind comes back to my yard and what still

needs to be down. Because that is my palate for my

talent.

Have a great rest of your month and see you in

June.

Union County Director

Vickie Hagey

UMATILLA COUNTY

We made it thru winter and April showers. Now

the trees and flowers are blooming with 90 degrees

plus weather. Sure feels good. On My 13th

, we had

the Stanfield show sponsored by the Stanfield

Senior Center. It was a success.

Joan Gray played the National Anthem. These

are the musicians that played:

Dennis Whitfield Langford, Tom Vickroy, Ron

Phillips, Carl Stinnett, Shirley Heisey from Weston,

Mt, Win Weston, Bill West, Selah Falcon, Judah

Falcon, Jerin Falcon, Sissy Falcon, Sonny Morris,

Charlie Raeder, Joan Gray, Mark Ludwick, Bill

Meyers, Michelle

Hedgepeth, Kevin

Hedgepeth, Julia

Milleson, Don Timmons,

Joe McCutcheon, Jackie

Tollman and the hymn

was done by Carl

Stinnett. Back up on the

bass was Jackie Tolman.

We did two tunes each,

starting at 6:00pm and ending at 9:00pm.

We want to thank Carl Stinnett and Ron

Phillips for coming all the way from John Day.

Keep the Rosin on the Causin’

Umatilla County Director

Bill and Lorre Meyers

MORROW COUNTY

I am running way late, but I didn’t have much

to say anyway.

I will finish the report on Irrigon.. The show

started at 6:00pm and finished at 8:45pm. Back-up

only was Carolyn Vickroy, Jackie Tolman and

Kevin Hedgepeth.

I have been doing a lot of sitting around

trying to get my strength back from all the fun.

I have been trying to get the grass mowed but the

rain won out for a while. I finally got most of I

done, I should have used a swather and baler. Oh

well, so goes it.

Yesterday, on

the 27th of May, we

decided to drive to

Sumpter for the day.

We got home about

10:00pm that night, but

we had a lot of fun

anyway. We saw

several musicians we hadn’t seen for some time.

Today was rest-up day, also had the

grandkids for dinner. They had been out camping,

so came by for some of grandmas cooking. It made

for a real nice day. Out daughter and son-in-law

were here too.

Time to sign off

Morrow County Director

Bob and Judy Stevens

It is better to starve than to be a fat slave

Please Pray For

Denny Evans Mary Evans

Vic Fusselman Betty Breeding

Edith Fusselman Marcia Adams

Bobby Stevens Jane Weston

Dexter Hodge Lenora Thomason

Ruth Hodge Punk McDaniel

Melody Huitt

It no longer is cost effective to use a postal

imprint to mail the Rosin Dust. We are switching to

a first class postage stamp. Before this time, it did

not matter cost wise if we mailed you the Rosin

Dust, but now it does. If it is convenient for you to

receive the Rosin Dust in an e-mail only, please let

the editor, Joan Gray, know. jgfiddler@gmail.com.

541-720-6225

Part of Misty

River Band at

Sumpter

BMOTFA Shows 2017

June

10, Wallowa County, Joseph Show at 6pm,

Hurricane Creek Grange Hall, 63081 Hurricane

Creek Rd, Joseph. Dinner by Grange ladies, at 5pm.

17, Elgin Fire Department Breakfast Show. 8:00-

11:00am. Free breakfast for musicians, Elgin

Firehouse.

17 Walla Walla show at 6pm, Eagles Club, Address

needed, Food available.

July 4th

thru the 9th

NOTICE, EMIGRANT SPRINGS DATES HAVE

CHANGED

Emigrant Springs Campout is July 4th through July

9th, 2017: . WE CANNOT ENTER THE PARK

UNTIL JULY 4TH

.

4th, Tuesday, Taco Tuesday, Maybe Meacham Café,

BMOTFA pays bill. Possibly cake at the pavilion

5th, Wednesday, Hot Dog Roast in the evening

BOTFA furnishes hotdogs and angels on horseback.

6th, Thursday, 1st show in Community building 6

pm.

7th, Friday, George Neer's Homemade ice cream at

2:00pm. 2nd show in the Community building 6pm.

8th, Saturday, Pot Luck at 12:00 noon at pavilion,

BMOTFA furnishes the meat, drink, bread, and

paper works. 3rd

show at 6pm.

9th, Sunday, Pot luck breakfast at Community

building. 8:00 a.m. Everyone cleans up and departs

when you get ready to leave.

Jamming every day, all day. Visiting and

laughing. Don't miss this one! Plan now to attend

all week or just what you can. Call Denny: 541-

562-5055 or Michelle, 541-297-0050 if you plan on

coming.

August

9-12 Grant County Shows, more details coming

19 Elgin Firehouse Show at 6pm, Supper at 5pm

September

1&2 Sumpter jams and shows. Potluck and jam on

Friday. Shows at 1pm and 6pm Saturday.

15 Cove Sportsman Club Show at 6:00pm

16 Rockwall Grange in Elgin Show at 6:00pm

30 Nyssa Show at Nyssa Senior Center, Show at

6pm and Supper at 5pm.

All are welcome to join Blue Mountain Old Time

Fiddle Association for the preservation of

traditional music. Please send your membership

dues of $10.00 (for the whole household) to

B.M.O.T.F.A. 966 East Bryan, Union, OR

97883. Make the check out to B.M.O.T.F.A.

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t my Rosin Dust sent to this e-mail

address.

Dear Denny and Fellow BMOTFA Members,

I wanted to thank you for the scholarship you

awarded me at this year’s BMOTFA annual

meeting. One of my goals is to graduate from

college debt free, and that goal can only be achieved

through hard work, careful saving and scholarships

like this one.

I will be attending Eastern Oregon University

this fall and am looking forward to being closer to

many of you and playing some old time music

together. Thank you again for the scholarship. It is

greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Clay Johnson.

Irrigon Show, April 29th

, Jackie, Charlie, Kat, Daryl, Shawn, and Sonny.

Arlington Show, June 3rd

, Joan, Bobby, Joe, Julia, Veronica, Michelle, Bill.

La Grande Show May 20th

John and Joe Morton

La Grande Show, May 20th

, Melody, Joan, Sherry, Margo, Cindy and Paula.

Blue Mountain

Old Time Fiddlers Association

Rosin Dust Editor

78671 Rudder Ln

Hermiston, OR 97838

EXECUTIVE BOARD

President: Dennis Langford: 966 E. Bryan, Union, OR 97883 541-562-5055

Vice-President: Margie Vaughn: 1804 Y Ave., La Grande, OR 97850 541-962-7122

Secretary/Treasurer: Colleen Langford: 966 E. Bryan, Union OR 97883 541-562-5055

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Baker County: Bob Hunt, PO Box 104, Sumpter, OR 97877 541-403-1949

Grant County: Carl Stinnett, 302 NW 4th, John Day, OR, 97845.541-215-0873

Morrow County: Bob Stevens: 54138 Hardman Ridge Rd., Heppner, OR 97836 541-676-5383

Umatilla County: Bill Meyers, 78914 Quick Road, Hermiston, OR 97838 541-567-6237

Union County: Vickie Hagey, 1702 Conklin Rd, Cove, OR 97824 541-910-4458

Wallowa County: Sandi Richerson, 204 Russell Ln, Joseph, OR 97846, 541-263-1637

APPOINTED OFFICERS

Editor: Joan Gray, 78671 Rudder Lane, Hermiston, OR 97838 541-720-6225 jgfiddler@gmail.com

Store Coordinator: Judy Stevens, 54138 Hardman Ridge Rd, Heppner OR 97836 541-676-5383

Historian: Ruth Hodge, 10904 South “E” St. Island City, OR 97850 541-963-6220

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS

Campout Ice Cream Man: George Neer 1601 X Ave, La Grande OR 97850

Tom and Carolyn Vickroy, Fried Potato Chairmen, 628 Blalock Dr. Walla Walla, WA, 509-525-4053

Public Relations: Jack Raymond, 421 Hill Lane, Caldwell, ID 83605 208-459-3347

Media Chairperson: Kevin Hedgepeth, 29759 Bridge Rd, Hermiston, OR 97838 541-297-0050