May 29
Bluegrass Bits and Pieces
Flat Rock Fall Festival announces September lineup
The Flat Rock Music Festival has announced the lineup for their upcoming September (26-28) festival in Flat Rock, NC. Bluegrass Artists on the bill include: Missy Raines and The New Hip, The SteelDrivers, The Biscuit Burners and Dehlia Low. Other Notables playing Flat Rock include Slide guitar virtuoso, Sonny Landreth, Sarah White, Seth Walker and The Iguanas.
The festival’s organizers have also made some “changes in the staff, campground and over all processes” to improve this year’s Flat Rock Festival experience.
Bluegrass Festival and Events Calendar
May 29 - Jun 1 — Preston Bluegrass Festival - Preston, CT. Artists scheduled to perform include Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, The Grascals, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Tony Trischka, The Greencards, Karl Shiflett & Big Country, Dale Ann Bradley, The Gibson Brothers and more. The Festival will also feature the Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival Kids Academy offering kids, age 8-18, instruction on the following instruments: guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo and bass, and also in vocals.
May 30 - Jun 1 — Minnesota Homegrown Kickoff in Richmond, MN offers a “three-day outdoor music & camping festival with stage shows by more than twenty regional performers of traditional bluegrass, old-time stringband, and related forms of acoustic music. Plus workshops, the Gathering Place, and plenty of campground jam sessions.” The festival is put on by the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association.
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