Bowling Green, Ky. – The world’s first International Newgrass Festival will take place August 21-23, 2009 at Ballance MotoX on the Historic Ballance Farms just north of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Headlining the three-day festival will be the surviving members of the band that started it all, the original New Grass Revival. Sam Bush, John Cowan and Curtis Burch will each perform with their new bands alongside many newgrass performers who have followed in their footsteps….

Louisville, Ky — Two of the world’s most innovative and influential bluegrass/newgrass bands are returning home to Louisville, Ky., the birthplace of the New Grass Revival and its predecessor, The Bluegrass Alliance.

These bands created and defined Newgrass, mixing traditional Bill Monroe-styled bluegrass with a fusion of rock, blues and jazz. Led by Sam Bush, the recordings, concerts and members of the New Grass Revival and The Bluegrass Alliance have become part of the folklore of the state and major forces within the music industry.

The Bluegrass Hotel, a major video and recording project, is rolling along, with a full slate of activities scheduled in mid-December in Kentucky.

The project gets its name from an old Victorian mansion in Louisville, Ky., that was a key component of the bluegrass scene and the home of some major music artists during the Newgrass era of the 1970s.

The project will go full-tilt, beginning Dec. 12, when Sam Bush, Dan Crary, Curtis Burch, Jim McGuire,

Sam Bush, Vince Gill, Dan Crary, Curtis Burch and other former members of the New Grass Revival and The Bluegrass Alliance – two of Bluegrass music’s most influential bands – participated in the successful launch of a major film and recording project at the 2008 International Bluegrass Music Association convention in Nashville, Tenn., last month.

The project, The Bluegrass Hotel, is based on an old Victorian mansion in Louisville, Ky., that was a key component of the bluegrass scene and the residence of major music artists during the Newgrass era of the 1970s.