Freshgrass Awards: Now Open For Business Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - March 2, 2018March 2, 20180 Freshgrass is still looming far off in the distance of moderately temped and always beautiful September. But while we while away the end of winter blues and everything is kind of gloomy and wet until Spring has sprung, the Freshgrass and No Depression Awards are now accepting their annual submissions (don't get me wrong, gloom and fog make for a great song, so maybe submit one to the Songwriter category!). From Freshgrass HQ: If you have some serious skills, we want to hear you play! Submissions for FreshGrass Awards are now open in 4 categories: Band, Banjo, Fiddle, and the No Depression Singer-Songwriter Award. We want you to win some of the more than $30,000 in cash and prizes we'll give away at this
Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival: Last Day for Early Bird Tickets! Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 28, 20180 $100. That could buy you a lot of things that may wear out overtime. Or perhaps its a grocery trip. Or perhaps a crappy knock off guitar or laminated mandolin from overseas. What it can also buy you today is an experience we guarantee will keep you on a natural high for months and months afterwards: The Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival. Today is the final day to cash in on their early bird $100 weekend pass. Thats 4 days of incredible music for just 100, one dollar bills. Hit the link, get some tickets and we will see you out in the field! More info below and our interview with Jill Turpin of the festival is RIGHT HERE. What: A four-day music
Wildwood Revival Announces Festival Dates , Earlier in Summer Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 21, 2018February 21, 20180 Georgia in mid to late August. I mean, Vermont in mid to late August can make you dripping in sweat at midday. The wonderful folks behind the scenes at Wildwood Revival took note of the drenching heat the past few years and took action for 2018, pushing the festival up a few weeks to June 29-July 1. From Wildwood's instagram post: "We know we've kept you waiting, but we promise to make it up to you. For starters, how about moving our date to a less perspiring month...We like to melt faces, but just musically. So goodbye August, and hello Fireworks. Bring your 4th of July booty shakin'. We're getting the party started early." While tickets aren't yet on sale or an
For the Love of it All: An Interview with Jill Turpin of Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival Festivals Interviews Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 14, 2018February 15, 20180 Festivals come and festivals go. Sure, there are the usual suspects in certain genres that have stood the test of time. Newport Folk with its rich history in the craft of song. Bending and redefining the rules of what "folk music" is. The giants who have grown exponentially, seemingly to big to ever falter, like Bonnaroo and Coachella. And in the bluegrass realm, fests like Grey Fox, Freshgrass, Rocky Grass and Winter Wondergrass have made it equally as exciting to see artists on stage as it is to sit in your camp ground and pick with new friends. Well, there is a new kid on the block this year and if there is one thing we can say about it,
Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Adds Sierra Hull and Peter Rowan to Line Up Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 12, 20180 We've been keeping an eye on the Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots festival's social media pages and website for the last couple of weeks. The event promises to bring some of the most talented folks in what one may call "Americana" and others may call "roots" music today (it doesn't matter, because its all just incredible). One of the masterminds behind the event, Jill Turpin, mentioned this to us about the need to bring this type of intimate, but impeccably curated event to the area,"Melomania is a term that describes a person who is obsessed with music and or finds it difficult to go a day without listening to it. That is us in a nutshell. One of our greatest joys
Freshgrass Announces Whippoorwill Arts/FreshGrass Foundation Awards to Molly Tuttle and Keith Little Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 9, 20180 Freshgrass is always looking for ways to help out artists and the community. The announcement of the Whippoorwill Arts/Freshgrass Foundation Awards this week is a wonderful example of that. The winners received an unrestricted grant and a place on the 2018 lineup for Freshgrass Fest in September. Over our years attending it has become one of our favorites and ticket prices go up in just a couple weeks time. So head on over and get yours at a discount TODAY. Read more below from the Foundation and a huge congrats to both Molly and Keith! From Whippoorwill Arts/FreshGrass Foundation Awards: Extraordinary talent, sparkling community spirit, a creative soul — and unrestricted $25,000 grants to keep it all happening. We teamed up with Whippoorwill Arts, founded by Jim
Green River Festival 2018: Initial Lineup Announcements Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 9, 20180 Last year the Green River Festival was a scorcher out there in the crowd, but it couldn't hold a candle to what was heating up on the stages throughout the course of the weekend. The team at GRF curates a lineup of not only the top names you want to see in bluegrass, roots, folk and rock on their stages but also some of the most exciting up and comers that many of the crowd has yet to hear...but very well may leave with one or all of those acts as new favorites. They have just announced their first artists this year and already it is shaping up to be one hell of a fantastic lineup with Old Crow Medicine Show,
Get ’em While They’re Hot: Green River Festival Ticket Deals (12/1-end of year) Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - December 1, 20170 To say we had a blast at last year's Green River Festival would be an understatement of colossal proportions. You can relive the 2017 fest through our monochrome retinas if you feel like doing so, but we are big fans of paving your own way and making your own journey through these weekend celebrations of music and art. Last year's highlights included our favorite band ever, Mandolin Orange, good pals Twisted Pine and Dietrich Strause and the Blue Ribbons tearing up the stage and some new favorites in Tank and the Bangas and local rockers The Sun Parade. This month, starting on this very day, Green River Festival tickets and merch are a big deal for you all. Sign up on the fest's
Monochrome Moments: Our Favorite Saturday Memories From Freshgrass Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - September 19, 20170 Freshgrass has a tendency to pull me in many directions. I want to see what is happening on the big stage in the field. I want to catch pop ups at some undisclosed location inside the museum (or, just take in some of the beautiful installations). I want to see the acts on the small stage. The Freshgrass award competition. The pickers in the outside courtyard. I mean, its sensory overload in the best possible way and you truly can't lose, but you also can't see it all and thats just something you have to come to grips with. This year I saw a lot of great stuff. I caught up with some really good friends I haven't seen in a
Freshgrass’ Freshest Moments : Revisited Festivals Music Features by Brian Carroll - September 5, 2017September 5, 20170 3 years ago was my first time experiencing Freshgrass at Mass MoCa in North Adams, Massachusetts. Heck, it was probably my first time actually spending some time in North Adams without it being a quick pass through. The museum isn't just a staple in the community around it, its quite possibly one of the most unique and wonderful backdrops for a festival. My only regret is that I hardly have enough time to enjoy the visual arts contained within its brick facade in an effort to soak up as much music as I possibly can. But alas, we can't be in 18 places at once and the music is why we are there for this kick off of Autumn every