The Saturday night headliner this year was Elvis Costello, who performed with a band that included Merlefest stalwarts Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan and Jim Lauderdale.
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According to two people with direct knowledge, DouglasBand has said that he will vote for Romney.
Federal funding also is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms and flooding in the counties of Ashland, Bayfield, and Douglas and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
In remembrance of his own coming-of-age, he delves back to the nineteen-sixties and tells the story of Douglas (John Magaro), who clubs together with friends to form a band, plays reverential cover versions of Buddy Holly and other gods, and cultivates their hopes of making it big.