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Friday night we built the stage, tapped a keg of Hoppy Boy, slow cooked a few pork shoulders and picked all night. About 2 am we started to watch the snowflakes, and by sun up it looked like there would be no pig out this year. I went to bed at about 10 am, after calling the sound crew and telling them the gig was off. When I got up at 2, there were about 150 people here, and the party was in full swing. We wound up with 200 folks here, a third of them playing music. At one point we had five acts performing concurrently, and all thoughts of organization was thrown out the window. Viva la pig out, hope you'll be here for number five!

Many, many thanks to our chef crew, Paul Blanchard and Rob Clark, for dealing with it all, and to all the many hands that helped put things together - Butch, great job on the tarp! And dad, NO MORE SHOVELING! Photos courtesy of dad, Joel Heiland.

Here's one of the jams that went down...

The only thing better than one fiddle is two fiddles, the only thing better than two fiddles is...

and the only thing better than three fiddles is...

note Tom substituting the red martini for coat and hat!

We broke down and opened up the house, where the incredible All Night Honkytonk Allstars played later in the day after this jam.

We also reversed the no fire rule and had ourselves a barrel fire out by the cook station.

High on the Hog SNOWJAM

Big thanks to the Sugarloaf String Band, High on the Hog, Tall Trees Grove, Shanti Groove, and the All Night Honkytonk Allstars for playing despite the weather, and to the Stanleytones for their support.

You can see more great Pig Out photos at Tom 'martini' Vilot's photo page. Thanks Tom!