October 10, 2007 from Artreach Alliance, Stillwater MN
Summer Tuesdays Planning Committee

 

 

Dear Joyce Kramer & The Porch Pickers,

Thank you for your help with Summer Tuesdays this year! On behalf of the planning committee, I wanted to let you know how much we appreciated the time you set aside to play in the marketplace this year. Your performance made our marketplace a great place to hang out and enjoy the evening!

 

We had a great 5th anniversary summer! The marketplace was busy and the music & movies were great fun. We were fortunate to have only one rainy day during the entire Summer Tuesdays series. We had beautiful weather, a great location and many people made this event a part of their summer. These events drew hundreds of people downtown Stillwater each week to support our local businesses, artists and farmers.

Your generosity of time and talent really made this a success. We hope to see you again next summer!

 

 

October 13, 2007  

We checked out the website and came away VERY IMPRESSED! Looks great, which makes sense because you folks SOUND great!

Ed and Jean, Roseville MN 

 

 

March 3, 2008

Well the Bluegrass festival was fantastic. I got to meet Joyce and watched the Porch Pickers on stage- they did wonderful!!! They have a very nice variety of instruments and songs. The vocals were very clear 
which made it real easy to sing along with them. Joyce also joined a jam section I was in and she has some really neat songs up her sleeve and her and her husband are fun to watch play off each other - they are cool people!!! I really enjoyed being able to listen to another Autoharpist play!!

Thank you Joyce!!

 

March 4, 2008

Hi Joyce & Porchpickers,

I really enjoyed hearing you perform at the March 1st MBOTMA gathering on Saturday afternoon. Your group has an engaging, infectious, sound and a nice blend of familiar gospel & bluegrass tunes. I also liked the way you engaged the audience, inviting them to join along on some songs. I especially liked the instrumental solos by the harmonica & banjo players. You also had some nice vocal harmonies. I especially enjoyed your last tune "Blues Stay away from me". The only thing that bothered me some is that the sound system could have been set up better. Even though I was sitting near the front of the room, I had a hard time hearing the autoharp, especially on solo breaks. And the fiddling was a bit tentative at times. But overall, it was a great performance which had me tapping my toes & singing along all the way.

Tony W. 

 

March 6, 2008

Don & Joyce, Ron & I really enjoyed your performance at the Bluegrass Festival. Your group had a great selection of songs that were fun & engaging. Your vocals were clear & it was easy to sing along. This was topped off with your solid instrumentals and solos for the banjo, harmonica & auto harp.

Good job! 

Diane 
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June 3, 2008

 

Joyce and the Porch Pickers,

I have visited your web site - GREAT SOUNDS!

Let's keep in touch.

 

Sharon Provost

Steamboat Minnehaha