2015
Big Muddy
Folk Festival

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Friday evening
Sweet Song String Band
Atwater-Donnelly
Phyllis Dale
St. Louis Rivermen

Saturday evening
Cathy Barton and Dave Para
L'Esprit Creole
Gloria Attoun
Claire Lynch Band
Finale
Saturday Open Mike
Tilly Tyrell

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All photos and videos were taken by Buzz and Bev Keiper

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Big Muddy Folk Festival 2014 Open Mike


Ken Burch and Janelle Burch performing Allison

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Alison

A rusty old photograph printed on tin. A name scrawled across the back says ‘Alison’
As you gaze in the camera lens, what did you see? Can I somehow believe it was me?
Tall, faded rose, the things in your past, Ruffles and lace are from some distant land
The shiny high shoes have now long gone away in a brown crumpled pile of old yesterdays

Thoughts in vermillion, the dusty cotillion, the band plays a waltz while you sing.
Gentle man smiles at you and whispers your name,
You dance for tomorrow and what it might bring

Oh Alison sits by herself in her home, so please, don’t you hear me and don’t be alone
The children that might have been never shall be, down through the years there’s still me

In a cheap photo album from the catalogue store, we put down our lifetime and those we adore
Shots of your husband before he passed away, How worn are the pages today
We put down a lifetime from cradle to grave and all that we hope for and all that we gave
I don’t know the answer not even your name, only just Alison

And Alison sits by herself in her home, so please don’t you hear me and don’t be alone
The children that might have been never shall be, down through the years there’s still me.