Everyone was dancing, including Derek Pebbles and his pet dog, Kazoo, to Gorge bluegrass band The Barnburners at Mosier Company’s one year celebration last Thursday night.

Fortunately, the only thing on fire at the GorgeGrass festival at Skamania County Fairgrounds in Stevenson, Wash., last weekend was the music.

Minutes before I had to interview Al Hare of Brewer’s Grade Band, I was scrambling around under my desk trying to find all of the audio cords to hook up my legendary “Phone Interviewing System,” which was just fine the other week at the old Chronicle Office — but since the move to our new location (I’ll stick with “across from Domino’s” until someone tells me the actual address), I’ve barely had time to unpack.

KZAS announces the kick off of a new Bluegrass music show hosted by Mike Nichols starting Monday evening, Aug. 15, from 7 to 9 p.m. KZAS, aka Radio Tierra, is found at 95.1 FM in Hood River.