Just want to remind everyone that there is more than one "Hal Smith" posting here.
As far as I'm concerned, the music at the 2012 Festival was outstanding -- particularly Andy Schumm and his Flatland Gang, Josh Duffee and his Orchestra and the Dave Bennett Quartet. And of course it was a great pleasure to play with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band at the festival, at Bix's grave and in the First Presbyterian Church in Davenport, where Bix was baptized.