We heard a bit more bluegrass and old time fiddle music today.  The Blue Ridge Music Center along the Parkway has open jam sessions on Friday afternoons.  Local musicians both well known and down home just get together and play.  The group started at four today but grew to 11 or so as the afternoon went on.  They ranged in age from something over 85 years old to probably around 45.  There were banjos, mandolins, guitars of more types than I recognize, and fiddles.  It was a great listen.  Along the Blue Ridge there are festivals, fiddler’s conventions, jam sessions, and live radio broadcasts every week.  Their music is very much interwoven in everyday life.  It is a wonderful notion.