Larry Long & Fiddlin’ Pete Watercott – Jan 4

Larry Long is an American Troubadour, a Smithsonian Folkways Recording Artist, educator and activist who is a long-time friend of the Big Top, having graced our stage many times over the last 30 years. Fiddlin’ Pete Watercott is one of the most amazing fiddle players in the world and a mainstay at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. The story of Fiddlin Pete & Larry is something out of a John Steinbeck novel. In their early twenties they hitchhiked and hopped freight-trains throughout the West passing the hat from bar to bar, performing most anywhere that people gather. In exchange for the hospitality and generosity shown by those who helped them out along the way, Larry would write a song in their honor. The lyrics were left pinned onto their refrigerator door with a magnet before Fiddlin’ Pete and Larry headed back on the road. In the course of their travels they joined up with bassist Larry Dalton, who they met in the High Sierra Mountain Range town of Truckee, California. Now fifty years later, Larry and Fiddlin’ Pete have come back together with bassist Larry Dalton to celebrate five decades of friendship and the release of their new recording, “As In Those Early Days”. Hop aboard their musical train as it makes a stop in the Backstage depot. As In Those Early Days: Click to listen! Doors open with full bar & food available starting at 5:30 Sponsored in part by Roger and Sue Aikins The Backstage is in the same building as the Big Top Box Office on the intersection of Highways 13 and J at the gateway to downtown Bayfield. 84810 State Hwy 13 | Bayfield, WI 54814 | 715.373.5552