Sep 15, 2026 · 48 min · 16 segments
A local music shop can preserve a town’s culture, teach a beginner, and keep a family memory playable. What if a music shop is not just where you buy an instrument, but where a community keeps its…
Like, how did that need, how did your father see that need? And how did he harp on it? Not harp on it, but focus on it to the point where to be in business for 60 years and to generate it, like, it's saving so many, like, you know, the music up here.
Although there was a place in Oxford, Pennsylvania called Sunset Park, and they would bring in a lot of country and a lot of bluegrass musicians.
And so he was the first to go to the bluegrass festivals that were happening predominantly south of here.
And he would set up a vending booth basically, and nobody else was doing that at the time.
So because he could repair, because he was selling parts and pieces, he started connecting with a lot of the bluegrass musicians.
They might need something serviced, a guitar, a banjo, whatever, and he would help them out with that.
And people would start coming to the booth to purchase vinyl records or whatever they wanted.
So that was sort of the impetus of kind of bringing Bluegrass back to Bucks County because as he got to know these musicians, he started booking them.
And that was kind of unheard of at the time because, again, bluegrass wasn't kind of a known thing.
And people would show up in droves because it was like, what? Del McCory's going to be in Doylestown.
Like, how did that need, how did your father see that need? And how did he harp on it? Not harp on it, but focus on it to the point where to be in business for 60 years and to generate it, like, it's saving so many, like, you know, the music up here.
Although there was a place in Oxford, Pennsylvania called Sunset Park, and they would bring in a lot of country and a lot of bluegrass musicians.
And so he was the first to go to the bluegrass festivals that were happening predominantly south of here.
And he would set up a vending booth basically, and nobody else was doing that at the time.
So because he could repair, because he was selling parts and pieces, he started connecting with a lot of the bluegrass musicians.
They might need something serviced, a guitar, a banjo, whatever, and he would help them out with that.
And people would start coming to the booth to purchase vinyl records or whatever they wanted.
So that was sort of the impetus of kind of bringing Bluegrass back to Bucks County because as he got to know these musicians, he started booking them.
And that was kind of unheard of at the time because, again, bluegrass wasn't kind of a known thing.
And people would show up in droves because it was like, what? Del McCory's going to be in Doylestown.
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