Tommy Reinick & Friends

  Tommy Rynick, 62, Briggsville, and his friends were a popular group at MusicFest 2003, and in fact performed twice. Accompanying Tommy was his mother, Jean, and his 9-year old daughter, Eva.

Tommy announced at one point that like the song of the same name, he was the "only hell his mother ever raised." But like 88-year old Florence Kocher, Jean lasted the entire day at the concert, as did two mature ladies accompanying Mary Ann Baker.

     
 

Playing with Tommy was Jack Michael, Bass; Dave Reedy, guitar and drums; "Zip Zeiser;" Ray Kinley on the steel guitar; and Elmer Hunter on the guitar.


 
Eighty-four years young, Elmer Hunter, playing guitar, but playing it like a dobro.
 
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Tommy is staying in the background here, as he plays the keyboards.
     
  Eva sang a song in Tommy's second set and was geared up to sing one more time, but the set ended before she could get her nerve up high enough.
     
 

Eva promised to sing Krauss and Welch's "I'll Fly Away," from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" but ran out of time before she could do it.

We hope that she performs the song for us next year...