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December 9, 2003

If anyone really knows Sherri, they know that she learned to love Bluegrass music up in Michigan, around the Detroit area. She'll be ready to credit a good friend to getting her tangled up in blue... grass that is! 20+ years ago, she was a tagalong to many a show, festival and event with all the Michigan greats... and with the success of Buckeye Bluegrass.com, she could hardly let her roots go without attention. Living in Toledo is really like living in the greater Detroit metropolitan area, anyways, so after a day or so of hard thinking, www.Gander Grass.com was born. Michi-ganders love their bluegrass and it seemed only right to help out her old pals as well.

January 18, 2004

Since Sherri is a banjo player and everyone knows that banjo players just can't leave well enough alone and MUST fool around with things constantly, she redesigned the front page of the site and added some nifty button boxes to direct people around the site quickly. Also added is a Chat Room function, that is sure to get her into trouble, because she LOVES to chat and well, bluegrass and chatting seem to go hand in hand. Check in often and maybe you'll catch her there. Drop by on one of our announced chat times and see who shows up!

Also added is our new affiliation with Americana Music. Through the gracious help of Bill Gamble, we will be receiving a small commission on all albums sold through his site with our promotional code of A108. This will help to keep Gander Grass.com up and running. The costs are low, but there are costs. This affiliation will help to keep things easy to manage and free of annoying pop ups and other funding methods. On the invoice it will state that you are helping Buckeye Bluegrass, which is the sister site of Gander Grass and it's okay. (Easier to do it with one then with two...)

March 14, 2004

It's been a little while since I got in here and did much work to this site and it's due and I apologize! BuckeyeBluegrass.com has experienced a HUGE growth spurt and it's been keeping me pretty busy. However, I'm back and there are going to be some good improvements!

The first is the change of the name! GanderGrass just wasn't quite right and I knew it. And it isn't getting the hits that I knew it needed to get people the information that they are searching for when they are looking for Bluegrass in Michigan! So soon, you will be able to contact the site through either www.MichiganBluegrass.com or www.GanderGrass.com. Eventually we will drop the GanderGrass.com domain, however at this point it will be running at the same time and direct folks to the main site. Hope this isn't too confusing, but well, this is for the best we think!

April 13, 2004

Time to do a little remodeling! Spring cleaning time. I'm changing the look of the site to better match the other two sites and trying to get some of the information in here that I've been gathering. It's been a slow process here, for some reason, I really do need a little help from the community at large. If you know of a band or a show, event or just want to post some information here about Michigan Bluegrass... Please let me know! Thanks!

July 7, 2004

My apologies for not keeping up on this website... it's been a pretty busy time of my life recently. I recently started a new company with an old friend and we've been very busy with several projects. Of course, there is speculation on the projects, but hey, if they talking about you, you must be doing something right!

Just to clarify things, we are not from France, nor are we starting anything illegal, nothing is going on, and well, ah, we're not selling anyone's banjo. What we are doing is starting a publishing company. Westvon Publishing will be doing music publishing in the Americana music market, and also working in educational materials as well as academic works in religion, education and writing. We are also consolidating the web site publications under the mantle of Westvon, with graphic services under my old company, Kalligraphika.

As with any venture, it takes a while to get things up and running. Stay tuned for really good things to come. We're got a few projects in the works that will really impress a few folks and offer some good resources and a place of sharing and information exchange to nurture Bluegrass music.

So if you hear anything about what is up... just remember, feel free to email me to check and see if it's really the facts.... and in the meanwhile, stay tuned!

Sincerely,

Sherri