We had a great day of music at Sunshine Farms! During the last set, the ladies from Mega Dong joined us for a Mega Jam in the music tent!

Tears were shed while we performed ‘Ashoken Farewell‘ with triples fiddles. So sweet!

Farmer Jim’s mom, Kate, was in attendance during our first set and certainly help to liven up the show. You rock grandma Kate!

We are looking forward to heading back to Sunshine Farm in August – more details coming soon!

Hey Friends! Come on out to Sunshine Farm on Sunday, June 28th. Bring the whole family! We will be providing fun music from 1:00 to 5:00pm to compliment the fresh strawberries and top-notch ice cream!

The Strawberry picking special is only $25.00 tray for 12lbs. Click here for a special PDF Coupon!

Sunshine Farm is a third generation New England family farm, owned and operated by Jim and Roberta Geoghegan with help from son Mike and daughter Katie. The farm is a 100 acre diversified fruit and vegetable operation and also grows greenhouse bedding plants and hanging baskets in season. They provide the best fresh produce in season using best agricultural practices in a family-friendly atmosphere.

The  farm stand flourishes in early June with strawberries, lettuce and peas.  Sunshine Farm also carries a unique line of gourmet preserves, salad dressings, cheeses, local eggs and Nashoba Brook Bakery breads.  July yields fresh flower bouquets and sunflower bunches. The farm bakes fresh cookies and fruit pies as well as sweet corn pizza and proudly continues to offer premium hard ice cream at their take-out windows.

The band has a new member and we’d like to welcome her aboard!

Michelle Lambert (pictured on right) is a fiddler, clogdancer, singer and songwriter who hails from the Round Valley of Northern California. Michelle comes from a musical family and has played the fiddle and sung for most of her life. She has performed for tourists on California Western Railroad’s “Skunk” train and was a member of the fabled “Round Valley Hog Callers” bluegrass band.

Despite Michelle’s affinity for skunk trains and hog calls, she is a formidable musician and currently studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Image via CrunchBase

Well, I recently tried to upgrade to Wordpress 2.8 and ran into a few snags. I thought I’d share my experience in case it can help someone else!

Upon the manual upload of 2.8 files (follow the instructions here) the site looked great, but I couldn’t login to the back-end.

It turns out that WP 2.8 uses some authentication code/hooks that can conflict with your existing legacy plug-ins. If you can’t login after your 2.8 install, rename your plug-ins folder (which essentially disables them). Then you should be able to login to the back-end.

After some evaluation, I decided that WP 2.8 is not for me, so I reinstalledWP 2.7. Easy right? NO! Guess what? I still couldn’t login to the back end!

Here’s what I figured out…

My hosting provider is 1and1, and a while back I had an issue with some plug-ins because the MySQL DB my WordPress site utilizes is version 4.0 (not 5.0). I had to add a line of code to .htaccess in the root folder [ AddType x-mapp-php5 .php] to have Apache run all .php files as if the MySQL DB was 5.0. It worked great.

When I installed 2.8, it replaced the .htaccess file and erased the hack/fix.

I added that magic line of code [ AddType x-mapp-php5 .php] back into the .htacess file and Voila! Everything works perfectly once again as a 2.7 install.

Hope this helps someone else out!  Good luck!

We had a great time this past weekend performing for Amanda and Sean’s wedding ceremony and reception in Western Massachusetts.  The ceremony took place in the beautiful Pines Theater in Look Park. The reception was held at the Garden House (next to the bumper boats and mini-golf).

Congrats to the couple and thanks to all the great folks in attendance! A guest sent along this iPhone picture of the happy dancing guests.

Just wanted to share this picture of Corrie and Maggie hanging out with Rhonda Vincent after her recent show at Johnny D’s in Somerville.  Word is that the show was pretty awesome!  Corrie has a Martha White Flour T-shirt to prove it!

Occasional Goodtime band member Fiddlin’ Rich Hamilton will be playing some tunes from the “Cornstalk Fiddle and a Shoestring Bow” album (and some new tunes too) at the Silver Ranch Hall in Jaffrey, NH this Friday evening May 29th at 7:30pm.

Silver Ranch is located on Rt 124 near the airport. This is a very intimate house concert feeling performance space if you have a dance hall in your home. Limited seating available. $10 suggested donation.

Head out to the Winchendon Farmer’s market on the 3rd Thursday of every month, May through September for an afternoon of old-time music, 4:00 – 7:00 PM.

This is an open session; all old-time fiddle, guitar, clawhammer banjo, and washtub/upright bass players welcome!

For more info contact:
andychase@gmail.com