14 months ago
ROUND POND (NEWS CENTER) -- Lots of families have their Fourth of July traditions. But the extended "family" of Steve and Robin Bixby is a little different. For more than a decade, they've been gathering every Fourth at the Bixby's home in Round Pond to play bluegrass music. Guitars, Banjos, fiddles and mandolins fill the air with music day and night. Some of these friends first met at out-of-state bluegrass festivals, and have been playing together for thirty years.Others are more recent arrivals. But they say it really is like family, as they've watched children grow up and shared countless hours playing and laughing together. What is it about bluegrass? Steve Bixby says it's a sort of great equalizer, "It just brings a great diversity of people together as far as what they do in their workaday worlds, but that common denominator being music." The group used to put a bluegrass float in the annual Round Pond fourth of July parade, but say this year they plan to sit back and watch that parade, then go and play more music. Steve Bixby and some other Maine bluegrass pickers have a band called the Katahdin valley Boys. You can find them at:
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