Blue Ridge Country Ramblers - I'm Coming Back But I Don't Know When (Rochester 1976)

Blue Ridge Country Ramblers
"I'm Coming Back But I Don't Know When" (Charlie Monroe)
2nd Annual Upstate New York Winter Country Music Festival
Rochester Institute of Technology Campus
Rochester, New York
Saturday 14 February 1976

Blue Ridge Country Ramblers:
Ron Knatt - mandolin, vocal
Jerry 'J.S.' Schneider - banjo, vocal
Ray Bigelow - guitar, vocal
Guy 'Smokey' Hiles - fiddle
probably Wayne Bigelow - bass

As broadcast on 'Folk Festival USA' over National Public Radio stations in the States. Unfortunately, band introductions were not included in the broadcast, and I've been unable to confirm the bass player.

The 2nd Annual Upstate New York Winter Country Music Festival was a one day event held on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology that featured performances and workshops during the day, followed by a concert at night. Also referred to in the local press as the Rochester Country Music Festival, or the R.I.T. Music Festival - and from the stage of the event by some performers as the R.I.T. Bluegrass Hoo-Ha - the acts that took part in 1976 included Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, Tracy and Eloise Schwarz, The Blue Ridge Country Ramblers, and The Union Hill Bluegrass Boys.

Photo: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, January 1978, photographer not credited
L-R (standing): Ray Bigelow, Ron Knatt, J.S. Schneider, Wayne Bigelow
(seated): Guy Hiles


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