Hello friends of the Skiatook Bluegrass Festival,

It's time to re-up for 2008. A mere $15 for an individual membership and $25 for a family will get you a GREAT festival in June. We need your support. You may think that $15 won't help us that much.- But- Last year, memberships alone raised over $1000.00. That's a big chunk, ya know. That will help tremendously with advertising, port-a-pots, posters, flyers, and needless to say, paying for BANDS!

It's really easy this year. You can go to the website, www.skiatookbluegrass.com, and pay via Pay Pal. Or, of course, you can mail the moolah to me, Lucy Weberling, 14850 N 71st W Ave., Skiatook, OK 74070. Please include ALL your info if mailing to me. I need email addresses particularily, as well as, phones and physical addresses. Volunteer, vendor, and sponsor sign-ups are also on the website.

The website is fantastic this year, due to Allan Cowell. Patricia Webster is putting out a Newsletter, which you all received the intro to. So- Visit the website often. - New stuff all the time.

We'll let you know about the free dinner and show as the spring progresses. We also have the Fiddles and Viddles Fundraiser coming up in April.

Time's flitting by, so join soon to get all the new info.

Bluegrass Love, 
Lucy Weberling

P.S. Check out the IBMA Website, www.ibma.org. It includes oodles of info on festivals, bands, Bluegrass in the Schools, all aspects of the bluegrass music industry. It's truly a blast to go to IBMA in October - You get to see them all!

GET A FRIEND TO JOIN the SKIATOOK BLUEGRASS ASSOCIATION, OR MAYBE 2 OR 3 FRIENDS!!!!!!!

Leadership Bluegrass, now in its ninth year with more than 180 alumni, is an intensive three-day program of advanced level, interactive learning experiences that invites participants to examine the challenges and opportunities facing our music along with related leadership issues.

Leadership Bluegrass will be hosted again this year at the BMI offices in Nashville, March 25-27, and will be facilitated by Fred Bartenstein.  Please contact the IBMA office for information on future Leadership Bluegrass programs: (615) 256-3222, nancyc@ibma.org.

The International Bluegrass Music Association is pleased to announce the following participants in the 2008 class of Leadership Bluegrass:

• Lucy Weberling; Festival Yoga/ Inner Smile Productions; Skiatook, Okla.
• Serge Bernard; Diamond Productions PEI; Stratford, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Ethan Burkhardt; Pinecastle Records; Columbus, N.C.
• Ron Cox; Avenue Bank; Nashville, Tenn.
• Katy Daley; WAMU’s Bluegrass Country; Washington, D.C.
• Debbie Durant; Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music, Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival; Landenberg, Penn.
• Arnie Fleischer; The Emelin Theatre; Mamaroneck, N.Y.
• Tim Graves; Tim Graves & Cherokee; Northport, Ala.
• Cindy Gray; The Nevada Bluegrass Project; Reno, Nev.
• Bill Hartley; Birthplace of Country Music Alliance; Bristol, Tenn.
• Richard Hurst; Ulster American Folk Park, EBMA; Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Diane King, Music Business Mgt.; Franklin, Tenn.
• Katy E. Leonard; IBMA; Nashville, Tenn.
• Matt Lindsey; Matt Lindsey Music LLC; Nashville, Tenn.
• Michael W. Marceau; D.C. Bluegrass Union; Kensington, Md.
• Tim McFadden; Tim McFadden Management LLC; Brentwood, Tenn.
• Gary Paczosa; Minutia Sound, Sugar Hill Records; Nashville, Tenn.
• Marty Raybon; Marty Raybon & Full Circle; Tuscumbia, Ala.
• Roger Ryan; CMA of Ireland; Cork, Ireland
• Roger H. Siminoff; Siminoff Banjo & Mandolin Parts; Arroyo Grande, Calif.
• Lorraine Short; Prime Tyme Solutions; Raleigh, N.C. 
• Wayne Taylor; Raincoe Music; Crofton, Md.
• Dana Thorin; Breezy Ridge Instruments, John Pearse Strings; Scotts Valley, Calif.
• April Verch; April Verch Band, April Verch Music; Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
• Rebekah Weiler; Middle Tennessee  State Univ.; Murfreesboro, Tenn. (student monitor)

Our spring silent auction fundraiser, "Fiddles and Viddles", will be held on Saturday, April 19. Entertainment will be provided by the Rockin' Acoustic Circus. Time and location will be announced later.

If you have any items to donate to the fundraiser auction, call Jeni Porter at 918-845-6225. Last year donated items included handcrafted jewelry, fishing gear, paintings, dinners out, a condo in Florida, and a guitar autographed by Trisha Yearwood.