Grey
Fox Bluegrass Festival: The past and Future of Acoustic Music
By Ross Rice
There
is also a 4-day music camp (for kids 8 contralto evoking Emmylou
Harris. Don’t even think and up,) the Grass Roots Learning
tent (a mini-acad-of missing Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives.
emy—just join in,) and a Slow Jam tent for participat-A gifted
guitarist, mandolinist, and singer who’s ing beginners. It’s
hard to imagine a more inclusive been part of the living history
of country music, who’s musical happening, nobody gets to
interact this worked alongside Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs,
Vassar closely with the artists in any other style of music. It’s
Clements, Johnny Cash, and Doc & Merle Watson, hard to imagine
bringing your own instrument to Stuart still draws inspiration from
the Mississippi Coachella, or Newport Jazz Festival, or Tanglewood,
Delta, bringing a distinctive blues tint to his style. or anywhere.
His new band features some on Nashville’s finest, so look
for a more electric sound, which should provide If you’ve
ever considered checking out bluegrass, a nice contrast. Things
will certainly be clicking into or, if you will, “acoustic
music” this would be a great high gear when Sam Bush hits
the stage. Nobody way to make your introduction. If you’re
a longtime, quite personifies the wide possibilities of “acoustic
or even casual fan, you owe it to yourself to make the music”
better; his groundbreaking New Grass Revival short journey up to
Rothvoss Farm, and plan to stick showed the way to bring traditional
sounds into the around awhile. It may take a few minutes, out future.
And very few bring the passion to it like Bush; on the grass, with
the banjos and mandolins and he always seems to be the person having
the most high harmonies wafting up the hill, drink in hand fun.
Don’t be surprised to see him popping up on on a mid-summers
afternoon, but I feel sure other gigs at Grey Fox, as will others.
This is where that it’s possible. the portability of bluegrass
comes in handy.
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