Georgia Mountain Fall Festival and a Ricky Skaggs Concert.

Today we went to the Georgia Mountain Fall Festival and a Ricky Skaggs concert.  The

Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds are located along the shores of Lake Chatuge in the north Georgia mountain community of Hiawassee. We wandered through the fairgrounds which is a beautiful area. There was a tiger show, a magician show and lots of local artists and crafters. 

When it was time for the bluegrass show we walked through the historic village lane of more artist and vendor stands to the Anderson Music Hall. Outside of the hall we encountered Travis Perry selling his ChordBuddy.   

Travis designed the ChordBuddy system to make learning how to play a guitar much easier. We had seen him on the TV show Shark Tank making a deal with Robert for the ChordBuddy. Today his lovely daughter was working his sales table with him and when we stopped to talk they gave a a full demo of the product. Travis played some songs while his daughter explained the different tabs on the device and how you remove one tab at a time to learn the chords. It was a friendly and fun encounter. And yes, I had to get one.  I think we have a guitar at my Dad's house that I can pick up next month.

Then it was on to the Ricky Skaggs concert in the Anderson Music Hall.  The Anderson Music Hall was constructed in 1979 and has 2,900-seats.  Ricky Skaggs, a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer, primarily plays mandolin and some fiddle and banjo.  He and his band put on a great show that lasted over an hour. I worked at a record store when I was in high school and one of the guys I worked with was a big Ricky Skaggs fan and played his records in the store all the time.

After leaving the fairgrounds we stopped at Hawg Wild BBQ, just outside of the gate.  It was very good BBQ! While enjoying that dinner we noticed a sign that advertised a Ribs Special on Wednesdays - that helped set our agenda for tomorrow.