You know how sometimes you plan to go on a picnic on a set of a western town, but land in the middle of a banjo and fiddle contest? Well, that’s what happened to me on Sunday.

We innocently went up to Paramount Ranch to take in the sites and have a little picnic and found our selves in the midst of the 53rd Annual Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest and Folk Festival. Since we didn’t plan the day, we ended up getting there for the last half hour of the live music. I have to say that we had just as much fun at the pop-up jam sessions  as we did at the organized events. I can’t say that it is anything I would have planned on doing, but it ended  up being an incredibly fun afternoon.