Our Merlefest Cabin Stage Set is availble through Festival Link!

You can now get our Merlefest debut, recorded live on the Cabin Stage on CD, or MP3's at Festival Link! We're so excited about this! http://flink.livedownloads.com/show.asp?show=5272

Dehlia Low-Down ::: July 2010

Sitting here listening to the sounds of mid-summer, rain and morning birds and kids playing outside, the Tour de France on television, still-cool breezes coming through a half-opened window, the whir of the ceiling fan. It just goes so quickly, each year more quickly, but this year especially quickly as we voraciously tear through our summer calendar seeing lots of different towns, meeting new fans, friends, and fellow musicians along the way. We’ve enjoyed performing close to home recently in anticipation of our big road trip this month to Colorado!

Fourth of July weekend was a blast, beginning with our Second Annual Gerton Bluegrass Show, where we tried and hopefully succeeded in following the marvelous time we had last year! The Laughing Waters Retreat Center was an incredible venue complete with, yes you guessed it, a gurgling creek running behind the building that cooled beer very nicely. The Hickory Nut community wasted no time in hitting the dance floor and we thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of you a second year in a row! Let’s keep it up!

Dehlia Low made a sentimental appearance at the first Shindig on the Green of the season during the holiday weekend as it returned to its downtown location on the Roger McGuire Green in Asheville. Thanks to the Folk Heritage Committee for their continuing support for our group, going back to our very first performance ever as a band! It’s always a pleasure to reconnect with the folks at Shindig, and they work very hard to keep the event going each year and for good reason…the crowds swelled to an estimated 8,000 enjoying mountain music and dancing.

Finally, the WNCW 21^st birthday jam was a very interesting, hilarious, and exciting opportunity for us to appear at some great regional venues (Handlebar and Orange Peel!). DL appeared with an eclectic mix of bands that included some local favorites like Will Straun, Billy Sewell, and Eliza Lynn as well as rock and blues acts from outside the region. DL did some unprecedented things like playing with a drum set and filling the swaying-snapping-tambourine shaking-backup section to a heartfelt rendition of “The Weight” (incriminating pictures available on our Facebook page). Many thanks to the fine folks with Delta Moon and Gandalf Murphy for the great time, and of course, to our favorite radio station WNCW and all the sponsors of the show!

This weekend we’ll be appearing alongside Peter Rowan, Tony Rice, and Dailey & Vincent at the White Oak Bluegrass Festival in Cleveland, TN. http://www.whiteoakbluegrass.com/

If you are in the front range area, we will be among you soon and hope to see you at one of our shows! On our way through Knoxville on Monday, you can hear us live on WDVX’s Blue Plate Special. You can listen online at noon at:

http://www.wdvx.com/programs/blueplate.html

We'll be appearing for a concert in the park in Limon, CO on Tuesday in the town square before heading to Boulder Wednesday where we hope you’ll join us for an outdoor house concert/party on July 21st starting at 5:00pm with house band Trailer Grove. Hope you can join us! It will be at a farmhouse at 7648 Arapahoe Rd. in Boulder 80303 (East Boulder near 75th and Arapahoe). Thursday we’ll be in Ft Collins at Avogadro’s Number. Then…hope to catch up with you at Rockygrass…we need your support as we compete in the Rockygrass Band Competition! Before heading home, we’re going to help DL superfans Sue and Paul Raab celebrate their 25^th wedding anniversary at a private event in Boulder…thanks Sue and Paul for helping to round out the trip!

Now that DL travels with several iphones, keep up with our travels on our Facebook page! Until next time…

Anya, and DL