Greta is one of a kind. She is one of those international Yodelers who makes the annual trip from Europe to attend the Avoca Festivals.

Sonny Rodgers Yodelers Paradise Show at the August 2000 Avoca Old Time Country Music Festival. This 3-hour show was one of Avoca's most popular attractions featuring Yodelers from around the world. In spite of week-long temperatures relentlessly hovering between 97 and 100 degrees, the performers gave it their all and the fans endured.

These excerpted clips represent some of the best performances. There are some audio glitches, of which I wasn't aware until I got home and watched the playbacks. Out of 10 film cassettes I shot, two of them suffered from this defect.

This would also be Sonny Rodgers last Avoca attendance. His cancer reappeared and the Good Lord called him home in July 2001.

Mike Johnson music & biography:
http://roughshodrecords.webs.com
http://www.freewebs.com/blackyodelno1
http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/mikejohnson

National Traditional Country Music Association:
http://www.ntcma.net

*** This video was filmed and edited by Mike Johnson, Country Music's No.1 Black Yodeler. He recorded in Nashville from 1981 to 1988, starting at Globe Studio, and continuing at Champ Studio, owned by Jim Stanton, founder of Rich-R-Tone Records. He has written over 1200 songs, including over 150 yodeling songs, and has over 200 songs in his BMI catalog which have been airing internationally on Independent Country Radio Stations since 1982.

1 September 2002: Mike was inducted into America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame by the National Traditional Country Music Association.

September 2006, Mike's "Yeah I'm a Cowboy" is one of the 18 songs on Bart Plantenga's "Rough Guide to Yodel" CD released by the World Music Network in London, England. Plantenga is the author of the 2004 best seller, "Yodel-Ay-Eee-Oooo, the Secret History of Yodeling Around the World" and Mike will be featured in his follow-up book, "Yodel In HiFi" scheduled to publish in the Fall of 2012.

26 April 2007: the Library of Congress acquired 114 of Mike's yodeling songs, 3-CDs, 1-DVD of performances, and a detailed music biography & discography for their Recorded Sound Reference Center's collection.

17 July 2009: Library of Congress acquired the Mike Johnson Song Folio [22-sheet music arrangements] for its Recording Arts Reading Room Collection.

13 March 2010: Roughshod Records released its 40th CD.

23 December 2011: Library of Congress Motion Picture & Television Broadcasting Division acquired 16 DVDs of Mike Johnson performances for their Moving Images Collection. ***