Acoustic Hot Tuna and the David Bromberg Quartet headline the second annual American Roots Music Festival at Caramoor — a day-long, family-friendly celebration of bluegrass, folk, string band and country blues music, on Saturday, June 30, 2012. Set on 90 acres of Italianate architecture and gardens in Katonah, Westchester County, NY – 40 miles northeast of New York City — the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is well known for its summer music festivals.
During the afternoon, folks can enjoy the swinging rhythms of Eilen Jewell and her band, the beautiful three-part harmonies of female Americana roots trio Red Molly, the southern style ‘steamboat soul” of Roosevelt Dime, the clawhammer banjo-stylings of Canadian banjo songster Old Man Luedecke, and the eclectic mix of Americana performed by Spuyten Duyvil, an alt. roots band whose sound wanders the last 100 years of American music conjuring embittered civil war veterans, recalcitrant small town bawds, suicidal bureaucrats, star-crossed lovers and brave-hearted fools navigating the mysteries of daily life. The Walkabout Clearwater Chorus, now marking its 25th anniversary, will welcome folks to the grounds with a joyous sing-along at 11:45 a.m.
“Caramoor is a nature paradise, and the music takes place in several locations on the grounds so that folks can experience some of the environmental beauty as well,” says Maggi Landau, the festival organizer. She notes that the daytime artists will be performing acoustic, unplugged sets in the Sunken Garden – “a quiet grove with the audience sitting on the ground literally at the feet of the artist” – as well as on the larger Friends Field. New this year, from 6-7 p.m., is a social music hour — an old-time music workshop featuring many of the daytime artists and patterned after one that Spuyten Duyvil’s Mark Miller has led at other music festivals. Folks are encouraged to bring their instruments or just gather round and learn, listen to and sing-along on some old-timey tunes.
David Bromberg
A limited number of $25 daytime only tickets and full-festival tickets, priced at $35-$55 (including reserved seating for the evening concert) were still available as of this writing. To order tickets, call (914) 232-1252 or visit www.caramoor.org.
Attendees are advised to bring their own chairs for the daytime performances. Although food and beverages will be available for purchase, folks also can bring their own.and enjoy picnicking on Caramoor’s spacious lawns.
Editor’s Note: As one of the American Roots Music Festivals’s cultural partners, AcousticMusicScene.com will have a presence at Caramoor on June 30.
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