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Speaker 5: Well, I think Beale Street, Memphis is really the home

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Speaker 3: I think we had six bands this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now does a Grand State Blue Society. You've got

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of opportunity. There's so many good blues

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Speaker 5: We also do a couple of fundraisers for our Blues

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Speaker 2: So Jimmy Carpenter is he plays horn and he went

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent, are you already? Well? Actually, let

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Speaker 1: You're already thinking about next year, right, Yes, So for

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Speaker 1: people who want to submit something, maybe they want to

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Speaker 1: get in, or maybe they just want to get involved,

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Speaker 1: maybe they want to volunteer for the Granted State Blue Society.

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Speaker 1: What's the best way for people to reach out to you?

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Speaker 5: They can check out our website Granted statelu dot org.

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Speaker 5: We also have a Facebook page, So reach out yea much?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent, and are there because obviously, you know,

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Speaker 1: we have people who listen online from other places. I

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Speaker 1: assume there's other variations people. I mean, you probably don't

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Speaker 1: know offhand, but I assume there's other organizations, probably in

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Speaker 1: every state across the country that has some some does

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Speaker 1: something similar to what you do in terms of promoting

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Speaker 1: blues music and educating people on it and festivals and

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Speaker 1: events and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: And if they go to if they go to the

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Speaker 2: Blues Foundation website, they can you know if anybody is

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Speaker 2: listening in from say Illinois, you can find your blues chapter. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I've been out in Pennsylvania and went to a blues

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Speaker 2: jam and directed a young man to their I said,

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Speaker 2: you've got to find your local blues chapter. You have

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Speaker 2: to go find them and introduce yourself. Most of the

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Speaker 2: states have them, I believe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And that's uh. That organization you were talking about too,

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Speaker 1: is international, right, it's.

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Speaker 2: The it's the parent one, the Blues Foundation. They have

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Speaker 2: a website. They are the ones that host the International

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Speaker 2: Blues Challenge.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so there's no shortage of resources for people, No, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and where and yeah, wherever you are in the country

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Speaker 1: or in the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, does that ever.

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Speaker 1: Surprise you when you're you know, in terms of thinking about, Wow,

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Speaker 1: there's actually other countries where they have where this organization

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Speaker 1: is operating, and there's actually blues like it's funny to

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Speaker 1: think about in a way, right, you know, like maybe

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Speaker 1: I don't know France. Is there a blues scene there?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, yeah, right.

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Speaker 2: There is, there's some. And I remember being surprised the

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Speaker 2: first time I did go to Memphis there were blues

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Speaker 2: players there from Japan. And it doesn't surprise me, honestly,

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Speaker 2: I just never thought about it before, right that you

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Speaker 2: know there and they're from everywhere and they come to

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Speaker 2: Memphis and they just have a blast.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This year in Memphis it was really cold and icy,

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Speaker 2: it had snowed. Everything was just a mess down there

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Speaker 2: because they can't they're not in New England or.

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Speaker 1: They're not prepared for for anything wintry.

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Speaker 2: And we had We came across a young man, a

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Speaker 2: young couple, they were building a snowman and I did

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Speaker 2: he say they were from France. He said, we don't

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Speaker 2: get snow over there, so it was kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: That's cool. That's cool though.

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Speaker 2: And you said Japan to Japan, Germany, Australia, Korea, Italy, Yes,

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Speaker 2: there's they're they're from everywhere. England, Oh my god. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's just amazing, like just sitting here like all the

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Speaker 2: like the Cinelli brothers they were over from I want

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Speaker 2: to say England. They were fantastic. I love them outstanding.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, because we think of blues

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Speaker 1: as being you know, well an American, yes, and you

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Speaker 1: know that this is where it started, but.

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Speaker 2: The bluesos are from yep.

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Speaker 1: But music is so you know, a music scene in

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Speaker 1: any genre can happen anywhere, and I think the Internet

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Speaker 1: has a lot to do with that too, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean certainly, you know, thirty years ago, we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily be talking about you know, yeah, there's this blues

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Speaker 1: band in Japan right now, you know. But with the Internet,

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Speaker 1: it has made everything, you know, it has made music

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Speaker 1: truly global in every genre, which I think is a

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Speaker 1: beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing. We're gonna we got

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Speaker 1: to start to wrap up this segment and we are

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Speaker 1: going to play something from Nick David's band. But remind us, oh,

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Speaker 1: actually two things. One we got to remind everybody if

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Speaker 1: they want a pair of tickets, you can get a

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Speaker 1: pair of tickets to the event August third. But what

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Speaker 1: you got to do is contact on Facebook granted State

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Speaker 1: Blues Society, and the first one to do that, you

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Speaker 1: got to mention this conversation on this radio show, on

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Speaker 1: this radio station, and you can get a pair of

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Speaker 1: tickets to the event. What's the official name.

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Speaker 2: Of the event again, Blues on the Range.

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Speaker 1: Blues on the Range, Yes, where.

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Speaker 5: Some people might remember barn Full of the blues. Uh

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Speaker 5: the festival we had before? Oh we moved to the Range.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, where did you used to do it?

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Speaker 3: New Boston, New Hampshire, four eah Field.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh okay? Why why the move is? Is the

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Speaker 1: uh is the place in Mason just bigger, easier to.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, the dreaded COVID hit and changed a

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Speaker 2: lot of things. And then when we went back into

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Speaker 2: uh try to go back to New Boston, we were

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Speaker 2: unable to secure that venue for the festival. So we

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Speaker 2: started looking around and came across the Range with in

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Speaker 2: the Cold Geerio and she was She's been absolutely fantastic

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Speaker 2: to us. It's a beautiful little venue out in Mason.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow afternoon, uh, Frankie Boy in the Blues Express will

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Speaker 2: be playing. She does a Sunday afternoon blues uh thing

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Speaker 2: with the Barbecue Blues. It's bring it, bring a lawn chair,

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Speaker 2: bring you money, sit down, enjoy yourself. Very crazy Sunday

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Speaker 2: until she closes in the fall.

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Speaker 1: Oh outstanding. Okay, good to know, good to know, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: so Blues on the Range. If you want a pair

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Speaker 1: of tickets to that again, contact Granted State Blue Society

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Speaker 1: on Facebook. Mentioned this conversation on this show on this station.

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Speaker 1: Be the first ones to do it though, so don't

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Speaker 1: do not procrastinate, and you can come to this amazing event.

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Speaker 1: And again, where should people go online? What's the website?

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Speaker 1: The main website for Granted State Blues www.

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Speaker 2: Dot Granite State Blues dot org and you can find

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Speaker 2: us on Facebook.

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Speaker 1: Outstanding.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll be.

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Speaker 5: Selling tickets to the festival advanced sales until Friday, okay,

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Speaker 5: and that those are available at Granted State Blues dot org.

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Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent. Well, listen Charlene and Debbie, thank you both

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Speaker 1: so much for coming in today. This has been wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for giving us the time and

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Speaker 2: hosting us