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From Kerrville-music.com:

1980, our ninth Kerrville Folk Festival, May 22-26, was our largest
festival to date with the audience growing to 13,000 for the five days. We
had daily opening sets by Austin’s Eagle Bone Whistle and “Singing Circus”
for the kids. Our New Folk entry list had grown to 132 entries and our
judges were Bob Gibson (who wrote “Abilene”), New York ragtime pianistcomposer
Terry Waldo and Guy Clark. The competition was still at the Arts
& Crafts Fair and while Peter Yarrow couldn’t make the show his impact
was evident everywhere as everyone was greeted by a hug.

1980 had some remarkable writers as finalists including Sid Hausman
of New Mexico, Lyle Lovett, James Durst, and Jamie DeFratis from
Florida. Among the award winners were David Halley of Lubbock, Jan
Marra from Minneapolis, San Antonio’s Dow Patterson, and Allen Ross
from Carthage, MO. among others playing the Memorial Day Winners
Concert at the Arts & Crafts Fair.
A strong line up of main stage artists at Quiet Valley Ranch included
former New Folk Tish Hinojosa, Tim Henderson, Lucinda Williams, Butch
Hancock, and Jon Ims joining headliners like Spider John Koerner, Gary P
Nunn, Townes Van Zandt, the Shake Russell-Dana Cooper Band, B. W.
Stevenson, Guy Clark, Jimmy Driftwood, Bob Gibson, Joe Ely, Uncle
Walt’s Band, Kenneth Threadgill, Carolyn Hester, Peter Rowen and 22
others including the Masters Four southern gospel quartet and Tom Uhr’s
Shady Grove Ramblers with their beautifully harmonized original songs,
blue grass,and Sons of the Pioneers favorites.

Tom what happened to Rarity? They killed it in Albuquerque. It never returned to the setlist as far as I have read. Maybe they literally killed it?

Tony

I think they did it at the Henry Miller Library last year.

Thx for the report Tom!

Good luck!

There’s always Europe.

“Pertinent elbows”, Mr. Stoger? I like that. Has the tour ended for you?