Austin, TX — The four nights of the upcoming and much anticipated Old Settler’s Music Festival, which won an Austin360.com A-List readers poll, promise a bonanza of the acclaimed roots and bluegrass music that has delighted attendees for 23 years. Old Settler’s Music Festival promises to do so again this year, running from Tax Day, Thursday, April 15, through Sunday, April 18, 2010….

Fred Eaglesmith
In 2002, acclaimed bluegrass singer James King took Fred Eaglesmith’s “Thirty Years of Farming” to the top of the bluegrass song chart. And now other noted bluegrass acts such as Ralph Stanley II and Blue Moon Rising have also recorded Eaglesmith songs.
King first heard “Thirty Years of Farming” when some of his Canadian fans [...]