Thursday jam at The Gaslight Dining Saloon
| Gaslight Thursday bluegrass jam | |
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| Error creating thumbnail: File missing The jam in the front room, 27 August 2026
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| Type | Jam |
| When | Thursdays, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm |
| Recurrence | Weekly |
| Venue | The Gaslight Dining Saloon |
| City | Rockerville, South Dakota |
| Scene | Black Hills |
| Music | Bluegrass, Country |
| Admission | Free |
| Website | Official page |
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.[unverified]
The jam met on Thursday 27 August 2026 with about a dozen players.JMyles, participant[unverified]
When
The banner on the front of the building reads bluegrass every Thursday, 6:30–8:30 pm, and that is what is recorded here.Photograph of the venue frontage, 27 August 2026 The venue's own website says 6 pm.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.[unverified]
The room
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.[unverified]
Dinner service runs alongside the jam, and the tables nearest the circle stay occupied by people who came to eat and stayed to listen.[unverified]
Who
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.[unverified]
See also
- The Gaslight Dining Saloon — the venue[unverified]
- Template:Jam — how this page is built[unverified]