Peter Pappalardo

Bluegrass (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

examines the startling possibility of faith and hope in a world defined by the impermanent and punctuated by pain and death. The story follows Cold Spring, a semiprofessional bluegrass band, from their obscure origins In Pigeon Forge, , to the national stage. While the band tries for the golden ring of stardom, their home county is suffering from the growing pains caused by the opening of a new Interstate highway and the culture shock caused by a huge influx of people fleeing the city.

From the moment real estate mogul Hugh McAdam's helicopter sets down in the parking lot of Chat Dalton's Garage, a struggle for control of the county ensues that eventually involves the Governor, scrapple, the Drug Enforcement Agency, ice tongs, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, cops, history books, drug dealers, auctioneers, bluegrass seed, construction workers, bibles, and assorted eccentric locals. Along the way, discovers that his past, like his beliefs about the future, are not all they appear to be.

Spanning one festival season, the sights, sounds, heart and soul of bluegrass music and the rural bluegrass community that loves it are the backdrop for a story of lost innocence, rapacious development, endangered love, and the daunting task the locals of Pigeon Forge have in dealing with a paradise lost.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781467064279
• Artikelnr.: 75601308

Autorenporträt

Peter Pappalardo has taught writing, English and Science for 25 years at the High School and college levels, and has written articles and stories about local music and the arts for the last ten. An inveterate musician with informal training, he was abducted by bluegrass aliens in 1977 at the height of the great folk scare, and has since become a rabid fan of the genre, which is the only music form ever to be invented by one man named Bill Monroe.

Since then, he has played stand-up bass, guitar, mandolin and nose flute with several different bluegrass, old-timey, gospel and Irish bands, many of which were called the Lost Ramblers. Pappalardo has played with the late Mr. Greenjeans of Captain Kangaroo fame, Bob Dorough, who penned the popular songs for ABC's "School House Rock" and many other fine and famous musicians who make their home in and around the Poconos.

He is an outdoorsman, erstwhile dartshooter, tile mason and woodworker, and the father of four fine sons, all of whom fortunately favor their sainted mother.