There are numerous live music festivals and venues throughout North Carolina, Virginia and beyond on tap to help you celebrate the official kickoff of summer over the upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend. Following are a few highlights. If I’ve missed one, let me know! Continue reading →
Categories: Concerts , Food Festival , Fundraiser , Live Music , Music , Music Festival , Music Tour | Tags: A Deeper Shade of Blue , Amythyst Kiah , Back Porch Cloggers , Balsam Range , Billy Strings , Blue Ridge Music Center , Blue Rock'n Grass , Blues Traveler , Breaking Grass , Bryan Sutton , Bryan Sutton Band , Chantilly Farm Bluegrass & BBQ Festival , Cold War Kids , Cris Jacobs , Darrell Webb Band , David Grisman , Del McCoury Band , Delfest , Dustbowl Revival , Floyd Music School Students , Fruition , Greensky Bluegrass , Horseshoes & Hand Grenades , Indian Run Stringband , Jason Isbell , Jerry Douglas , JJ Grey & Mofro , Joe Craven & The Sometimers , Jon Stickley Trio , Josh Shilling , Kenny and Amanda Smith , Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time , Lonesome River Band , Love Canon , Mandolin Orange , Marcus King , Mason Creek , MerleFest , Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge , Mike Mitchell Trio , New Orleans Suspects , Old Crow Medicine Show , Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band , Rhiannon Giddens , Ricky Skaggs , Rising Appalachia , Robert Randolph & The Family Band , Rooster Walk , RW10 , Sam Bush , Sanctum Sully , Seldom Scene , Shadow Grass , Sierra Hull , Soul Asylum , Steve Marshall & High Road , Stuart Duncan) , The Bluegrass Congress (The Del McCoury Band , The Brothers Comatose , The California Honeydrops , The Compton's & Friends , The Gibson Brothers , The Infamous Stringdusters , The Kruger Brothers , The Lil’ Smokies , The Po' Ramblin' Boys , The Travelin' McCourys , The Wildmans , The Wood Brothers , Tony & Heather Mabe , Volume Five , Wild Ponies , Williamson Branch , Wound tight , Yarn | Permalink .