The Gallinippers

We've interrupted the long drawn-out reporting of our June road trip to tell you about a more current adventure.  Remember those pesky crane flies that I told you about here and here.  It turns out they're also known as wolf mosquitoes, gollywhoppers, and gallinippers.  So, it's pretty fun and interesting that an old-time string band would call themselves The Gallinippers.  We saw them at the Wilson County Fair yesterday - a fair that did not disappoint!

The Gallinippers are purveyors of old-time music, culture, tradition and learnin', and eaters of good fine ham.  They play a variety of instruments: banjo, harmonica, kazoo, jug, uke, washboard, washtub bass, battle organ (whatever that is!), and guitar.

Howard probably paid a lot of attention to the music, while I was intrigued with the nuances of the staging, costumes, and dancing.  There was so much attention to detail.  I would love to see this thing driving down the freeway.

The young dancer was so dang cute.  In his maybe four years of life, he's already learned how to steal a heart.  I wish I had a video of his overall-clad dad and his mom who sat on the front row stomping and clapping and maybe keeping the beat for their young purveyor of old-time dancing.