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One of my coworkers at Fair Food Farmstand, Emma, is a wonderful musician. She plays the fiddle, guitar, sings and I'm sure she dances too. She, her husband Jake and friend Scott were moving out of their lovely house in the Graduate Hospital area and decided to throw one last party: a bluegrass BBQ. Scott was slow cooking pork shoulders all day for some delicious pulled pork sandwiches – with tomato and vinegar based sauces. They asked their friends to bring some grub or booze to share and any instruments they new how to play.

I didn't know quite what to expect as I didn't know anyone other than Emma and Jake, but I walked into an awesome night. There were 4 guitars, 2 banjos, 2 fiddles and a mandolin passed around by the guitar players. Awesome. There were a couple hours of music after we chowed down on pulled pork sandwiches, BBQ chicken, corn, chips and salsa and a host of other delicious things.

Also in the house that night was wonderful Philly photog JJ Tiziou; singer-songwriter Birdie Busch who joined in for a few songs while munching on some peach pie [who I saw perform last year]; and Eric Berley, the younger of the Brothers Berley – the duo behind my favorite ice cream shop in the city Franklin Fountain who came with 2 containers of ice cream (I made an open faced oatmeal raisin sandwich with some vanilla bean ice cream).

I can't wait until the next time Emma and Jake throw a party at their new digs. Some more photos from the party in this flickr set.

Photos made with my new Nikon D700; Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D at ISO6400.

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