Friday: Another tornado Watch

Friday the weather was miserable and we sat and watched a big storm come through. Hail and tornados were predicted, but did not materialise, just rain and thunder.
In the evening we went to a music session.
I had found this session through MeetUp on facebook, also a Park Ranger had described it to us.
It takes place every Friday evening in The Rocky Branch Community Center, just outside of Townsend. The center has several rooms and a hall.
At about 6.00, people start to arrive and get together in little groups to play. When we arrived we were given a tour of the place then left to join in wherever we wanted.
One room had gospel music, another 'mountain' music, which was open for anyone, from 6 to 90.
In another there was an obviously tight little band playing, with people watching.
One corridor had a group of instrumentalists (mainly), elsewhere there were groups that just sat together and played then moved on.
There were probably about 100 people there altogether. It was an exciting and interesting evening. Sally and I joined in the general 'mountain' music and had a great time, I took a picture of the band..
Later I sat in with the instrumentalists, who enjoyed taking music at a great pace. Particularly good were Alabama Jubilee and 'the shorter version' of Orange Blossom Special, which went on for about 10 minutes, getting faster and faster as it was driven by a couple of fiddlers. Excellent (thank you Paul for your coaching on that number).