RooneyFest

[ecdoesit]

Does anyone remember RooneyFest up in NY state. It was a bluegrass weekend festival that went for a number of years. Man the people would come out of the hills with all sorts of moonshine and get rip roaring drunk, screaming "Rooney" all night and dancin to fiddle players. Until I moved out west I never had seen anything like it

[rosetree]

Jenn, do you know anything about this???:p

[windowman]

If you saw Andy Rooney naked, you would have to scream and run or drink heavily, wouldn't ya?

[Michelino]

Until I moved out west I never had seen anything like it

OK, I'll bite, what did you see out west that was like it?

[stlbarb]

If you saw Andy Rooney naked, you would have to scream and run or drink heavily, wouldn't ya?

same for Mickey. how about being the meat in an Andy Rooney/ Mickey Rooney sammiche?

[mightyradgumbo]

same for Mickey. how about being the meat in an Andy Rooney/ Mickey Rooney sammiche?

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

[mightyradgumbo]

Does anyone remember RooneyFest up in NY state. It was a bluegrass weekend festival that went for a number of years. Man the people would come out of the hills with all sorts of moonshine and get rip roaring drunk, screaming "Rooney" all night and dancin to fiddle players. Until I moved out west I never had seen anything like it

In NOLA, it is called Festgiving and it is a great night ;)

[Corona]

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
me too lol....

[Corona]

In NOLA, it is called Festgiving and it is a great night ;)
oh yes, Gumbo, it very much is a wonderful night :)

[ibjamn]

Does anyone remember RooneyFest up in NY state. It was a bluegrass weekend festival that went for a number of years. Man the people would come out of the hills with all sorts of moonshine and get rip roaring drunk, screaming "Rooney" all night and dancin to fiddle players. Until I moved out west I never had seen anything like it


I am freakin laughin my azz off!!! Imagine my surprise when I saw the thread name!!! But I must say, I'm a little hesitant at the idea of a bunch of moonshine-slugging hillbillies screaming my name all night!!!!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Rooney

[La Ti Da]

HA! I thought they meant Chez Rooney as well!

Sounds like a wild time, maybe it turned into Greyfox bluegrass fest

[glinda]

heeheehee thought it was a party at the jamns.

[Zbonnie]

heeheehee thought it was a party at the jamns.Me too!!! I'm disappointed now!

[ecdoesit]

I'd say anything that was in Oregon, such as Oregon Country Fair.

[ecdoesit]

So I googled it to see if there were any pictures. Nope, but I did find this from a website. here it is: http://tinyurl.com/38jwsq

[ecdoesit]

Donald Rooney opened his two-hundred acre spread---always the first weekend of August---to usher in the state's misfits and riff raff for a weekend long festival of bluegrass, moonshine, mud and dynamite. the combination had proved sustenant agar for colonies of demented joys. the experience of my first Rooney Fest was like a fourteen year old catholic princess going to a fetish ball thinking it was some tribute to Italian Rennaissance poets. To read more:
http://www.modocpress.com/Rooney.html

[ibjamn]

Still can't beat RooneyFest in Gentilly! ;)

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p136/ibjamn50/AmyP.jpg