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How many childhood  memories fade and recede in our lifetime?

Every Summer in Downtown Asheville, NC,  musicians gather to engage in impromptu jam sessions of Bluegrass and Appalachian folk styles bringing a tradition of musical and mountain heritage to the purists and uninitiated.

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