Winfield Glossary
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Alpha Picker
- The person leading a jam, nodding breaks,
asking specific people for a song, etc.
- Camp Dog
- Someone who stakes out camp sites for
others.
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Check Point Charlie
- Security gate to the Grandstand area
- Chieftains or Chieftanettes
- Heads of campsites or anyone who
has attended more than ¾ of all
festivals to date
- Crusin
- After the main stages finish, looking for
jams, etc.
- Do the Shuffle
- See Winfield Shuffle
- Don't Tell Bob
- Don't tell Bob Redford, usually while Bob
is standing right there
- Doodle-ooo's
- The condition of having a particular fiddle
tune stuck in your head
- Flood Plain
- Area in the Walnut Grove near the highway
bridge
- Flushers
- Bathrooms under the Grandstands
- Going Into Town
- Going to the Walnut Grove, from the Pecan Grove
- Going Over the Hill
- Going back and forth between the Walnut and Pecan Groves
- Grab my Chair
- Usually said before a walkabout, so seating
is available when a good jam is located
- Hollywood or North Hollywood
- The Walnut Grove
- Hooterville
- The Pecan Grove
- Inner sanctum
- The grandstand area
- Land Rush
- A date set when campers can line up for camping spaces
- Midway
- The wide area between the Grandstands and the T-shirt barn
- Off the Grid
- Areas where no electric cords can be stretched
- Picker or Player
- Long timers, as in "She's a real player"
- Prairie Dog Bob (Jim, Cindy Etc.)
- Those who venture only a
few Yards from the
campsite, look both ways
and scurry back
- Road Toads
- The people gathered under the streetlights
jamming
- RV Land
- The Walnut Grove
- Shuffle Up
- See Winfield Shuffle
- Sooners
- Those having numbers for Land Rush; also those coming in the backside of the Pecan Grove during land rush.
- Spank It
- Play louder, with enthusiasiam!
- The Other Side
- Used to discern between Pecan and Walnut Groves
- The Road Over
- See Going Over the Hill
- The Swamp
- Area in the Pecan Grove on the East end, by the
river where cars are apt to be up to the axles
after a rain.
- Topside
- The Grandstand area
- Tune Bugs
- See Road Toads
- Tune Hog
- Someone who dominates a jam
- Voting Booth
- Porta Potty, when you visit, you vote
- Walkabout
- Crusin the other campsites for jams, etc.
- Wandering
- Crusin the other campsites for jams, etc.
- Wander On
- Said when it is time to look for more music, etc.
- Wheel Hoss
- See Alpha Picker
- Winfield
- The Bluegrass Festival, not the town
- Winfield Chair
- The chairs sold at the North end of the Grandstands, or a copy thereof
- Winfield Moment
- Becoming Spastic with laughter
- Winfield Shuffle
- Moving closer to the stage at the end of a set, to get the best spot
- Winfield Time
- Looking at your wrist band.
- Winfield Virgin
- Someone who is experiencing their first
Winfield. May be asked to do outlandish
acts in public.
- Yellow Shirts
- Security personnel, as in" We need some
yellow shirts at the Carp Camp"
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