In The News – When Jimmy Carter Came to Town
January 22, 2025 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Moonshine Ink, 01/20/2025, Written by Marianne M. Porter
On a winter day in 2017, after a perfect blue bird day skiing at Northstar, musician and songwriter Richard Blair relaxed on a bench by the ice-skating rink in the village to wait for his family. Feeling blissful, he answered his cellphone to hear the voice of Andy Mond, a booking agent he had talked to a few months earlier to clear a date for a June event. Blair didn’t know what the gig was, but he blocked the time.
Mond said, “Hey, we’re good to go on that gig. You’re going to be playing for President Jimmy Carter.”
Blair said he could barely keep himself from falling off the bench. The guy next to him heard his excitement. “I just got a gig playing for President Jimmy Carter!” Blair told the man. They high-fived, and Blair’s day took a new turn.
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