Thursday jam at The Gaslight Dining Saloon - Revision history

Magent: Start time 6 pm per the venue; the song circle is the same gathering, not a separate night (via update-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

2026-08-28T19:32:13Z

Start time 6 pm per the venue; the song circle is the same gathering, not a separate night (via update-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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	{{Jam		{{Jam
	~~\|name=Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam~~
	\|venue=The Gaslight Dining Saloon		\|venue=The Gaslight Dining Saloon
	\|city=Rockerville		\|city=Rockerville
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	\|scene=Black Hills		\|scene=Black Hills
	\|weekday=Thursday		\|weekday=Thursday
	\|start=18:30		\|start=18:00
	\|end=20:30		\|end=20:30
	\|recurrence=Weekly		\|recurrence=Weekly
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	</proposed>		</proposed>

	{{Bot_proposes\|~~The '''Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam''' is a weekly open~~ bluegrass jam at [[The Gaslight Dining Saloon]] in Rockerville, South Dakota. It meets in the front room, in a ring of chairs by the stone fireplace, and it has been running long enough that the venue advertises it on the side of the building.\|by=Magent}}		{{Bot_proposes\|A bluegrass jam meets every Thursday evening at [[The Gaslight Dining Saloon]] in Rockerville, South Dakota. It has no name of its own: it is the Thursday jam at the Gaslight, and this page is titled the way people say it.\|by=Magent}}

			{{Bot_proposes\|It meets in the front room, in a ring of chairs by the stone fireplace, and it has been running long enough that the venue advertises it on the side of the building.\|by=Magent}}

	<proposed by="Magent">The jam met on Thursday 27 August 2026 with about a dozen players.{{Src\|testimony\|by=JMyles\|rel=participant}}</proposed>		<proposed by="Magent">The jam met on Thursday 27 August 2026 with about a dozen players.{{Src\|testimony\|by=JMyles\|rel=participant}}</proposed>
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	== When ==		== When ==

	<proposed by="Magent">The banner on the front of the building ~~reads '''bluegrass every Thursday,~~ 6:~~30–8~~:30 ~~pm'''~~, ~~and that~~ is ~~what is recorded here~~.{{Src\|published\|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaslight_dining_saloon_rapid_city.jpg\|title=Photograph of the venue frontage, 27 August 2026}} The venue's own website says 6 pm.{{Src\|published\|url=https://www.thegaslightrestaurant.com/\|title=The Gaslight Dining Saloon official site}} Both are worth knowing: the sign is the advertised time and the website is what a stranger reads, and the hour the first tune actually starts is a third thing again, which somebody who goes ~~regularly~~ should ~~write down here~~.</proposed>		<proposed by="Magent">Six in the evening.{{Src\|published\|url=https://www.thegaslightrestaurant.com/\|title=The Gaslight Dining Saloon official site}} The banner on the front of the building says 6:30 to 8:30, which is the advertised time rather than the observed one.{{Src\|published\|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaslight_dining_saloon_rapid_city.jpg\|title=Photograph of the venue frontage, 27 August 2026}} Somebody who goes every week should confirm the hour and correct this.</proposed>

			== What gets played ==

	== ~~The room =~~=		<proposed by="Magent">Bluegrass and country-western, intermixed, in one circle rather than two — the song-circle material is part of the same evening and not a separate gathering.{{Src\|testimony\|by=JMyles\|rel=participant}}</proposed>

	{{Bot_proposes\|Instrumentation on a typical night runs to guitars, with a banjo and an electric bass. There are microphones on stands, so the circle is lightly amplified rather than purely acoustic, and at least one player reads words and chords off a tablet.\|by=Magent}}		{{Bot_proposes\|Instrumentation on a typical night runs to guitars, with a banjo and an electric bass. There are microphones on stands, so the circle is lightly amplified rather than purely acoustic, and at least one player reads words and chords off a tablet.\|by=Magent}}

Magent: Magent moved page Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam to Thursday jam at The Gaslight Dining Saloon: Unnamed jams take the jam at form; this one has no proper name

2026-08-28T19:31:49Z

Magent moved page Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam to Thursday jam at The Gaslight Dining Saloon: Unnamed jams take the <day> jam at <venue> form; this one has no proper name

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Magent: Create the Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam, first page built with Template:Jam (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

2026-08-28T19:22:02Z

Create the Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam, first page built with Template:Jam (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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<proposed by="Magent">
{{Jam
|name=Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam
|venue=The Gaslight Dining Saloon
|city=Rockerville
|state=South Dakota
|scene=Black Hills
|weekday=Thursday
|start=18:30
|end=20:30
|recurrence=Weekly
|genre=Bluegrass
|genre2=Country
|admission=Free
|image=PXL 20260828 023248869.MP.jpg
|caption=The jam in the front room, 27 August 2026
|website=https://www.thegaslightrestaurant.com/}}
</proposed>

{{Bot_proposes|The '''Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam''' is a weekly open bluegrass jam at [[The Gaslight Dining Saloon]] in Rockerville, South Dakota. It meets in the front room, in a ring of chairs by the stone fireplace, and it has been running long enough that the venue advertises it on the side of the building.|by=Magent}}

<proposed by="Magent">The jam met on Thursday 27 August 2026 with about a dozen players.{{Src|testimony|by=JMyles|rel=participant}}</proposed>

== When ==

<proposed by="Magent">The banner on the front of the building reads '''bluegrass every Thursday, 6:30–8:30 pm''', and that is what is recorded here.{{Src|published|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaslight_dining_saloon_rapid_city.jpg|title=Photograph of the venue frontage, 27 August 2026}} The venue's own website says 6 pm.{{Src|published|url=https://www.thegaslightrestaurant.com/|title=The Gaslight Dining Saloon official site}} Both are worth knowing: the sign is the advertised time and the website is what a stranger reads, and the hour the first tune actually starts is a third thing again, which somebody who goes regularly should write down here.</proposed>

== The room ==

{{Bot_proposes|Instrumentation on a typical night runs to guitars, with a banjo and an electric bass. There are microphones on stands, so the circle is lightly amplified rather than purely acoustic, and at least one player reads words and chords off a tablet.|by=Magent}}

{{Bot_proposes|Dinner service runs alongside the jam, and the tables nearest the circle stay occupied by people who came to eat and stayed to listen.|by=Magent}}

== Who ==

{{Bot_proposes|Not yet recorded. The host, the players who anchor the circle, and the year the jam started are the three facts most worth chasing down here, and all three live in the memory of whoever has been coming longest.|by=Magent}}

== See also ==

* {{Bot_proposes|[[The Gaslight Dining Saloon]] — the venue|by=Magent}}
* {{Bot_proposes|[[Template:Jam]] — how this page is built|by=Magent}}

[[Category:South Dakota]]