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More than a dozen local musicians joined in singing "Sing Me Back Home" in a Merle Haggard tribute at the Folklife Festival in Blue Lake on Saturday.
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Joyce Hough greets the full house at the Humboldt Folklife Festival's Merle Haggard tribute show before singing "I Can't Be Myself When I'm With You."
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Gary Davidson joined Fred Neighbor, Joyce Hough and Paul DeMark in the Merle Haggard tribute.
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"This may be the happiest photo ever taken of me playing the drums. That's because the Merle tribute was so much fun," said Paul DeMark who played percussion in the Merle Haggard tribute.
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Bruce Johnson played guitar and sang in the tribute on Saturday.
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Steve Irwin checks out Marc Jeffares's mandolin playing.
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Ken Jorgenson originated the idea of a Merle Haggard tribute as the closing performance for the Humboldt Folklife Festival.
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Gary Davidson, Fred Neighbor and Bruce Johnson share a mic during "Sing Me Back Home" on Saturday.
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Rick Levin and Steve Irwin help close the Merle Haggard tribute with "Okie from Muskogee." "Everything I love about playing music was all there ... and I will long remember it," said Levin.
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Bruce Johnson played guitar and sang in the tribute on Saturday.
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