From Telluride in
Telluride
June 21-24, 2007
The rugged San Juan Mountains of
Jenny Brook Family
June 21-24, 2007
www.jennybrookfestival.com
Taking place in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains, this more traditional bluegrass festival will feature performances by Junior Barber & Beartracks, David Davis & The Warrior River Boys, The Gibson Brothers, The Erin Gibson-Laclair Show, Smokey Greene, Buddy Merriam & Back Roads, The Lynn Morris Band, Plexigrass, The Right Path Gospel Band, The Seth Sawyer Band, The Sawyer Brothers and Leroy Troy.
In keeping with the nature of a family festival, there will be workshops for both adults and children, while children also will have an opportunity to perform on Sunday and partake in a variety of activities. Rough camping is free with a weekend pass ($55 per person at the gate; children 16 & under are free, while 17 & 18 year-olds are half-price). Daily tickets are also available.
St. Croix Valley Bluegrass Festival
June 30, 2007
Carpenter Nature Center in Hastings, Minnesota
651-437-4359
www.stcroixvalleybluegrass.com
Hosted by Minnesota bluegrass band Monroe Crossing, this one-day festival features bands from the midwest and elsewhere from noon to 10 p.m., along with indoor and outdoor jamming. Performers include True Life Travelers, Triple L Band, Joy Kills Sorrow, Pert’ Near Sandstone, The Platte Valley Boys, Kimmer, Granger and Hinkley, Switched At Birth, The Alzen Family and Sawtooth Bluegrass Band. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the gate; $10 for children 12 and under.
Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival
July 5-7, 2007
Starvy Creek RV Park in Conway, Missouri
417-589-2013
www.starvycreek.com
The Grascals, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Ralph Stanley II and the Larry Stephenson Band are among the featured performers. A three-day pass costs $35, while daily tickets also are available. Children under 12 will be admitted free, while tickets are half-price for those ages 12-16. Bring your lawn chairs.
July 6-7, 2007
888-343-6262
This is a traditional bluegrass festival in southern
Dry Branch Fire Squad and Sons and Brothers co-host this four-day festival, with two stages perched overlooking the Wet Mountain Valley and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Performers include Bobby Osborne (of the legendary Osborne Brothers) and Rocky Top Express, The Gibson Brothers, Lou Reid and Carolina, Mike Compton and David Grier, Bill Lowe, Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz, Sweet Sunny South, and several Colorado-based bluegrass outfits. A four-day festival pass is $75, while daily passes are also available. Children 12 and under will be admitted free.
Basin
July 13-15, 2007
802-247-3275
Among the performers at this upper New England festival are Acoustic Blue, Blistered Fingers, Cabin Fever, Cannonball Express, Lonesome Whistle Band, Dave Nichols & Spare Change, Andy Pawlenko & Smokey Hollow Boys, Dean Sapp & Harford Express, Smokey Greene,
The Good Old Fashioned
July 13-15, 2007
The Northern California Bluegrass Society, which hosts this festival showcasing talent from the Golden State, now in its 14th year, declares that “its [small] size makes attendance a no-hassle, laid-back experience with no lines for anything.” The music on two stages begins at 3 p.m. on Friday. Gate prices are $70 for three days, $55 for two days and $27 or $37 for single days. Camping included with two- and three-day tickets.
12th Annual Prospect
July 14, 2007
www.upperogue.org/bluegrassfestival.htm
The local Lions Club presents nine hours of bluegrass, gospel and what it calls “authentic acoustic country music,” featuring musicians from
Mineral
July 19-21, 2007
www.aandabluegrass.com/MineralBluegrassFestival.html
Among the performers at this 24th annual festival are Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, The Grascals, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Alecia Nugent, Jesse McReynolds, Cherryholmes,
Grey Fox
July 19-22, 2007
Rothvoss Farm in
Dry Branch Fire Squad hosts this popular East Coast festival that features four days of musical performances, workshops and jam sessions with a stellar lineup of bluegrass, acoustic and dance acts. Artists include Sam Bush, Nickel Creek, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Quartet, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Claire Lynch Band, The Duhks, Tony Trischka’s Double Banjo Spectacular, Uncle Earl, The Waybacks, Crooked Still (Folk Alliance’s Emerging Artists of the year), The Greencards, Pete & Joan Wernick, and the Red Stick Ramblers, among others. Now in its 30th year, the festival features four performance stages , ranging from a natural amphitheater Main Stage to a more intimate Masters Stage. There’s a slow jam tent for beginning pickers, grass roots sessions featuring hands-on workshops, and a four-day Bluegrass Academy for Kids ages 8 and up. Tent and RV camping is available.
Musicians Against Childhood Cancer/Bluegrass Classic
July 25-28, 2007
Among the artists donating their time and talent to this festival, benefiting St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, are: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, IIIrd Tyme Out, J.D. Crowe & The New South, Lonesome River Band, Don Rigsby & Midnight Call, Mountain Heart, Larry Stephenson Band, The Infamous Stringdusters, Alecia Nugent Band, The Grascals, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Kenny & Amanda Smith, Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, and Wildfire. Ticket prices at the gate are $30 daily and $95 for all four-days; camping is $5 per day with the purchase of multiple-day tickets only.
FloydFest
July 26-29, 2007
www.floydfest.org
Although set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where bluegrass does have many loyal denizens, FloydFest is hardly a traditional or even a contemporary bluegrass festival. "It’s in the Mix," is the theme of this year’s four-day festival at Milepost 170.5 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia’s Floyd County that also features world music, reggae, folk, African and Appalachian music, along with local arts & crafts. For bluegrass and newgrass fans, there’s Sam Bush, The Duhks and Red Stick Ramblers, as well as the bluegrass-influenced jam band Railroad Earth,
July 26-29, 2007
207-625-8656
A two-hour drive from Boston and an hour from Portland, Maine, this festival will feature performances by The Bayboys, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Ray Legere & Acoustic Harvest, Muddy Marsh Ramblers, The New England Bluegrass Band, North Star, Nothin’ Fancy, April Verch, The Wilders & others, as well as contra dancing on Friday and Saturday nights. Weekend tickets are $58 at the gate (including rough camping); children 16 and under admitted free.
5th Annual
July 27-29, 2007
207-472-3802
Artists performing at this festival in rural
35th Annual RockyGrass
July 27-29, 2007
RockyGrass completely sold out several weeks earlier than usual.
Fiddle Fest
July 28-29, 2007
Billed as “Roanoke’s Celebration of Traditional String Music,” this festival features instrumental and vocal workshops, jam sessions and cncerts, including a Saturday evening performance by Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, while Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers are part of Friday night’s lineup. Advance two-day tickets are $45 (with camping), while advance single-day tickets are $20. Tickets are $5 additional at the gate.
Podunk
August 2-5, 2007
Martin Park in
860-528-1458
Artists slated to perform include six-time IBMA vocal group of the year Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, The Biscuit Burners, Mike Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters, The Grascals, Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain, Hunger Mountain Boys, Lonesome River Band, Lost & Found, Jesse McReynolds, Miller’s Crossing, Mountain Heart, Dave Parmley & Continental Divide, Pine Mountain Railroad, and Rhonda Vincent & the Rage. Workshops, jam sessions, storytelling, a Kids Bluegrass Kamp, and plenty of field pickin’ into the wee hours also are on tap.
August 2-5, 2007
www.cnyba.com
Sponsored by the Central New York Bluegrass Association
August 9-12, 2007
El Rancho Manana Campground in
800-635-3037
The Del McCoury Band and Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands are among the performers slated to appear, along with Alan Munde Gazette, Kenny & Amada Smith, and many more. More than 30 workshops, nightly dances, and a family area also will be featured. Two-four day ticket packages include rough camping, while single-day tickets also are available.
August 11, 2007
Historic
718-351-1611
Now in its 11th year, this festival features free family-style entertainment and children’s activities from noon to 7 p.m. on the grounds of
Hosted by Art Stevenson & High Water, this festival features Sloppy Joe, Tommy Brown & County Line Grass, Forge Mountain Diggers, Platte Valley Boys, and more. Daily admission is $20. Free rough camping in designated areas.
Tim O’Brien headlines this festival that pays homage to the late country singer Ola Belle Campbell Reed and features the music of her husband and sons, who played with her over the years, as well as newer groups that are carrying on her tradition and local artists. Among the other performers whose sounds will fill the Blue Ridge Mountains air are Dan Paisley and Southern Grass, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Mark Brine, Jeff Little and Steve Lewis, Demolition String Band, Blue Ridge Rounders, White Top Mountain Band, Grayson Highlands Band, Elkville String Band, Rock Bottom Bluegrass, Polecat Creek, DJ and Randy Sheets, and Wolfe Brothers. An old-time mountain dance and fiddle and banjo contests are slated for Friday night. Three-day passes are $20 in advance and $25 at the gate.
Long Island
August 18, 2007
Tanner Park in
631-587-3696
www.babylonarts.com/bluegrass.htm
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder headline this family-friendly festival, which runs from 12-8 p.m. and also features Buddy Merriam & Back Roads and other local bluegrass bands. Tickets are $10 at the gate; $5 for children under 10. Bring a lawn chair.
Bluegrass in the Smokies
August 23-25, 2007
Riverside Campground & Resort in Sevierville, Tennessee
423-345-3510
www.bluegrassinthesmokies.com
The Claire Lynch Band, Alecia Nugent, Larry Speaks, Blue Highway, IIIrd Time Out, Carolina Road, Paul Walker & The Victory Trio, The Frittz Family, Bradley Walker, James Monroe and The Anita Fisher Band with Ray Beaton are among the performers. This east Tennessee festival , now in its eighth year, also features instrumental workshops, jamming around the clock, and guitar, banjo and band competitions. Three day tickets are $58 before August 13 and $65 at the gate. Daily tickets are also available.
Blistered Fingers Family
August 23-26, 2007
Silver Spur Riding Club in
207-873-6539
Now in its 29th year, the festival features music by The Adrians, Blistered Fingers, Bluegrass Diamonds, Carolina Rebels, Cross Over, Doerfel Family, Larry Gillis Band, Goldwing Express, The Muellers, Kati Penn Band, and Josh Williams & North Country.
The Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival
August 23-26, 2007
Granite Hill Campground near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
717-642-8749
www.gettysburgbluegrass.com
Among the artists slated to appear this year are Blue Highway, Jimmy Bowen and Santa Fe, Cherryholmes, Mike Cleveland and Flamekeeper featuring Audie Blaylock, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Gary Ferguson Band, Gibson Brothers, The Grascals, Grasstowne, Tim Graves and Cherokee, Lonesome River Band, Jesse McReynolds and The Virginia Boys, Nothin’ Fancy, Seldom Scene, Stepp Canyon Ranchers, and Rhonda Vincent and the Rage. While adults enjoy concerts and workshops, children in grades K-12 can participate in a bluegrass academy for an additional fee. Daily and multi-day festival tickets are available at various prices.
Eureka Springs Bluegrass Festival
August 24-26, 2007
Eureka Springs City Auditorium in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
888-855-7823
www.eurekaspringsbluegrassfestival.com
Newgrass mandolinist Sam Bush, Marty Stuart, Ronnie Reno and The Reno Tradition, The Tennessee Gentlemen and Mare Winningham are among the featured performers at this weekend festival that takes place in an Ozark Mountain village whose entire downtown is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Workshops and a picking party also are on the docket.
August 30-September 2, 2007
207-725-6009 or 877-TPB-4321
Like Blistered Fingers, this festival is now marking its 29th year. Held on the southern coast of Maine, “where the music meets the sea,” over the Labor Day Weekend, it will feature more than 50 hours of bluegrass by such acts as Marty Raybon & Full Circle. Peter Rowan & Tony Rice, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Dan Paisley & Southern Grass, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, The Lewis Family, Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, Sierra Hull, Randy Waller & The Country Gentlement, The Abrams Brothers, Loretta & Mo, No Speed Limit, Carolina Sonshine, Evergreen, The Doerfel Family, Pine Hill Ramblers, White Mountain Bluegrass Band, and more. There’ll also be off-stage field pickin’ throughout the weekend, workshops under a beachfront tent and children’s activities. Daily, two, three and four-day tickets are available in advance (with discounts before July 14) and at the gate, and in the rough camping is free for multi-day ticket holders.
August 31-September 2, 2007
www.brandywinefriends.org/dvbgf/
Now in its 36th year, this Labor Day Weekend festival is presented by The Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music. This year’s impressive lineup includes Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, The Grascals, Cherryholmes, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Dan Paisley & The Southern Grass, Seneca Rocks,
August 31-September 2, 2007
Although not strictly a bluegrass festival, this Labor Day Weekend event, now in its 12th year, will feature performances by the Jerry Douglas Band, The Infamous Stringdusters, Nickel Creek, Sweet Sunny South and The Wilders, as well as an array of instrumental workshops. Advance ticket prices range from $30 for Friday only to $100 for a three-day pass with on-site camping. Ticket prices are $5-$10 more at the gate.
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