MerleFest, the largest folk music festival in the US. Ever been? [View All]

[Lex]

I'm going this year and was wondering if any of you Loungers have ever been? :hi:

This year Elvis Costello, Allison Krauss and Donna the Buffalo will be there, plus great Blues musicians too. 13 stages of music.

The festival is hosted by legendary guitar player Doc Watson and is named for his son, Eddy Merle Watson . . . The four-day-long festival was founded in 1988 and now attracts more than 80,000 participants, making it the largest folk music festival in the United States.

MerleFest offers a generation and genre crossing mix of traditional and contemporary roots music, bringing together the very best of Bluegrass, contemporary acoustic, blues, folk, old time, Cajun, jazz, and singer-songwriter musics. Artists can often be enjoyed in on-stage jam sessions featuring unusual combinations of musicians, such as Sam Bush and Gillian Welch with the Waybacks and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead in 2006. Other artists who have performed on MerleFest's twelve stages over the first 19 years have included Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Earl Scruggs, The Kruger Brothers,John Prine, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Donna the Buffalo, Natalie MacMaster, Vassar Clements, Hot Tuna, David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Douglas, Del McCoury, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Howard Armstrong, and Tony Rice.

www.merlefest.org