NedFest
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NedFest: The Nederland Music & Arts Festival is a three-day outdoor music and microbrew beer festival with camping located on the shores of Barker Reservoir in the mountains of Nederland, Colorado, in the United States.
The festival site is just 17 miles (27 km) west of (3,000 ft (900 m) above) Boulder, Colorado. It happens the last weekend in August and the music featured is in the bluegrass, jazz, and worldbeat genres... or more so, a sound that blends these styles (and others) together! Up to six bands headline each day on one stage, with solo, duo or trio 'tweener sets between each band.
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[edit] Past performers
Artists who have performed at the festival include Dr. John, Sam Bush, Keller Williams, Stanley Jordan, Yonder Mountain String Band, Charlie Hunter, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones's bassist Victor Wooten, Merl Saunders, Melvin Seals & JGB, New Monsoon, The Motet, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra), Kan'Nal, Cecil 'P-Nut' Daniel, The Duo w/ Benevento & Russo, Skerik w/ Black Frames, Robert Walters' 20th Congress w/ Will Bernard, Garaj Mahal (featuring Kai Eckhardt, Fareed Haque, Alan Hertz & Eric Levy), Rob Wasserman solo, Leftover Salmon's Vince Herman and members of Leftover Salmon, Shanti Groove, The Big Wu, Vinyl, Papa Mali, Tony Furtado Band, Tony Furtado & The American Gypsies w/ Paul McCandless, Joe Craven Band, Tony Trischka Band, Pete Wernick's Live Five, The Slip, ThaMuseMeant, Albino!, Fulanis Afrobeat Ensemble, Being Lara Maykovich, Great American Taxi, Noam Pikelny, Onda, Fareed Haque Group, Runaway Truck Ramp, Chupacabra, Kutandara, Hanuman, Theory of Everything, Mumbouli, Wookiefoot, Jaka, Single Malt Band, Floodplain Gang, Ryan Shupe & The Rubberband, Ty Burhoe & Friends, Whitewater Ramble, Polytoxic, Soul Reclusion, Bill Evans & Soulgrass, The Codetalkers, Jamie Janover's Loop Realm, Jive, Blackdog Band, Phix, Cabaret Diosa, Matt Flinner Quartet, Matt Flinner/Ross Martin Band, Nick & Helen Forster, Sally VanMeter, Ron Miles, Open Road, New Country Kitchen, Benny "Burle" Galloway & The Broke Mountain Quartet, Possum Logic, Alan Stecher, Kelli Lafollette, Nederland Acid Jazz, Nederland BluegrAcid Jazz All-Stars, Alektorophobia w/ Eric McFadden & Wally Ingram, Spoonfed Tribe's Weapons of Mass Percussion, Dave Watts & Kristen McFarland, Vince Herman & Jeff Austin, John & Bill McKay, Arthur Lee Land, Wendy Woo, Noam Pikelny, Jamie Janover, Leslie Helpert, Single Malt Band, Hit & Run Bluegrass, The Wayfarers, Liza Oxnard, High On The Hog, Danny Shaffer, Liz Clark, Bruce Hayes, The Eldorans, Samba Dende, Jubal & Rob Gower, The Nedrecks w/ Phil Moynihan & Cowboy Keith, Jon 'Blackdog' Ridnell, Patrick Latella, Doug Baker, Chris Connolly, Cameron Byers, Junis Ponds and much more.
[edit] History
The first NedFest happened at Nederland's Chipeta Park in 1996. After a short hiatus it was resurrected during the first weekend of August 1999 at its current site, The Jeff Guercio Memorial Baseball Park. The event has become a highlight of summer in Nederland.
[edit] Management and sales
'Michigan Mike' Torpie is the founder and organizer of NedFest. The event is organized jointly by two companies, "Nederland Music & Arts Festival, LLC" handles all bookings, promotions and the infrastructure of the event. "Nederland Music Association 501(c)(3)" handles administrative work such as recruiting volunteers, gathering sponsors, and sponsoring the liquor license.
There is a limit of 2,000 tickets sold per day. In addition to three full days of music, the festival also features arts and crafts, local microbrew beer and food, merchandise, service and information booths.
