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Gainesville Florida – Friday October 26
Barry Sides and Mark Leadon rock Ti Amo’s.

The Ninth Annual Gram Parsons Festival was held this past Friday night in Gainesville Florida. As usual the festival featured an array of Florida veteran musicians including Tampa Bays Tommy McCoy, Tallahassee’s Mark Leadon, and Gainesville stalwarts Ned Stewart, Monica Leadon Cooper, and Barry Sides.

After the Parsons Festival, Mark Leadon joined Barry Sides on stage at Ti Amo’s Restaurant and Bar for a lively set of whiskey charged tunes which included several Flying Burrito Brother and Eagle classics. Leadon, the younger brother of former Eagle Bernie Leadon, was in great form nailing his older brothers Eagle licks note for note. Older brother Bernie was also a member of Parsons Flying Burrito Brothers. Mark Leadon is a great musician in his own right and has released two highly acclaimed bluegrass albums, Blue and Lonesome and Borderlines. Says Sides’ “Mark and I have been pals for close to thirty years. He even reminded me that he and I had planned to put a band together back in the Seventies but he moved to Tallahassee. We had so much fun playing together tonight. Mark is a wonderful player and a great showman. I’m not sure who enjoyed it more, us or the crowd” It was a tie.

Note: Listen to Mark Leadon at www.mleadon.com