Podunk Bluegrass Festival
The Podunk Bluegrass Festival is an annual bluegrass festival formerly held the first full weekend of August in East Hartford, Connecticut, and Norwich, Connecticut.[1][2] The 2013 festival had to be cancelled due to scheduling conflicts with the host minor-league baseball club at Dodd Stadium in Norwich. In September 2013, the Podunk board of directors announced that the 2014 festival will be held the second weekend of August at the Hebron Fairgrounds in Hebron, Connecticut. The festival features local, regional, and national bluegrass musicians, bringing together the finest in bluegrass music each year. Besides four days of music on the main stage, the festival hosts band and songwriting competitions, a kid's bluegrass academy, intimate workshops with headlining bands, and separate picking and quiet camping areas. In 2010, Podunk won the International Bluegrass Music Association award for Event of the Year.[3]
Since 1996, Podunk has hosted some of the biggest acts in bluegrass, including Kathy Mattea,[2] Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, Doc Watson, Mac Wiseman, the Del McCoury Band, John Hartford, Vassar Clements, Jesse McReynolds, Doyle Lawson, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, the Lonesome River Band, Emmylou Harris, the Seldom Scene, Tony Rice, Tony Trischka, Sam Bush, Tim O'Brien, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Dale Ann Bradley, the Kruger Brothers, Michael Cleveland, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, the Gibson Brothers, Nickel Creek, and dozens of up-and-coming local and regional bands.
References
- ↑ Melissa Traynor, 'East Hartford's Podunk Bluegrass Festival Moves to Norwich', Hartford Courant, February 22, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Adam Benson, 'Podunk festival regulars praise Norwich venue', NorwichBulletin.com, Augsut 4, 2012.
- ↑ RECIPIENT HISTORY - IBMA AWARDS: Event of the Year.
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