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As part of their the celebration of the group’s 20 years in existence, the Wednesday Evening Fiddlers and friends will be leaving for Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday morning, Aug. 6, for a 12-day trip and tour of the city and area famed in the annals of country music.

“We have 54 going on the bus, not all fiddlers of course, and we’re going to visit Nashville and of course the Grand Old Opry and its old home the Ryman Auditorium, the Hall of Fame and various places,” Garold Hanscom, the group’s long-time leader and fiddle teacher, said last week. “While we’re in Nashville we’ll visit the Wild Horse Saloon and Tootsie’s. The entertainers used to slip out the back door of the old Ryman Auditorium and go down to Tootsie’s and have a drink during the show and the Wild Horse Saloon is just up the street from that. And Printer’s Alley, where you go to get ‘discovered’, is near there too.”

He said that probably the Wednesday Evening Fiddlers wouldn’t get discovered but he wanted the younger fiddlers to see the places and remember what they are and used to be.

“We’ll be spending some time on Broadway there and then we’re going on to Pigeon Forge and taking in some shows there and we’re going to spend the day in Dollywood of course in Pigeon Forge.” He said that the towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge are “sort of like a little Branson, Missouri. A lot of entertainers, like Jim Ed Brown, have theatres there.

We’re going to Country Tonight and Fiddlers Feast and a half dozen other shows that we’re booked into.”

He said that the fiddlers and friends had been looking forward to the trip for months.

“It’s a continuation of our 20th anniversary celebration,” Hanscom said.

“It’s been a hectic summer, playing with the New Brunswick Fiddle Orchestra in Saint John, at the Highland Games, the Northern Maine Fair, and a lot of other places, and now this trip. It should be fun.”