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Big names get down in Sweet Home.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-JUL-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1165 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Big names get down in Sweet Home.(Festivals)(Oregon Jamboree brings Brad Paisley, Clint Black, Pam Tillis and others for three days of concerts)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

SWEET HOME - "I'll tell you about the jamboree," says an older gentleman in the lobby of the Sweet Home Senior Center. "It oughta be in Arkansas!"

No, not everyone here loves the Oregon Jamboree, the annual, midsummer celebration of country music that regularly draws some of the biggest names in the business and daily crowds that double this city's population of 8,235.

Some, such as those at the senior center that sits a spittoon shot away from the main stage, find it loud, obnoxious and a traffic nightmare. But for every naysayer, there are many more who wouldn't have it any other way.

"Oh, we love it," says Barbara Locati, who lives at the end of 13th Avenue. That's smack-dab next to the 67-year-old Weddle Covered Bridge that spans Ames Creek and is the country music festival's landmark. "We don't even have to buy a ticket."

True. Locati and her neighbors can set their lawn chairs in their front or backyards and enjoy a world-class concert.

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