July 30, 2008 Summer Festival Bulletin

Summer’s not over yet. Catch these smaller regional festivals happening in the next two weeks. I’ll be pointing you to other great small festivals throughout the rest of the season. Come out and support regional bands and regional festival promoters. Photo by Abigail Seymour

August 1-3, 2008 Cosmic Railroad Family Gathering, Camp Rotamer, Janesville, WI
Cosmic Railroad, SLM, Family Groove Company, Sarah Vonderhaar, Big Sky String Band, The Hill Climbers, B Funk Family, and Day To Day
http://www.myspace.com/cosmicrailroadfamilygathering

August 1-3, 2008 Sioux River Folk Festival, Newton Hills State Park, south of Canton SD
Stairwell Sisters, The Teels, Mat D and the Shamrockers, and Southern Routes (a combo-band of members of Balfa Toujours, The Dirk Powell Band with Riley Baugus, and the Foghorn String Band). [Dirk Powel and Riley Baugus did music for the film Cold Mountain!]

August 7-10, 2008 The Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival, El Rancho Mañana, Richmond, MN
Cadillac Sky, The Stairwell Sisters, Monroe Crossing, The Bag O’Dirt Band, The DitchLilies, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Grasstowne, Mike Seeger, The Dirk Powell Band, Balfa Toujours, Brennan Leigh, Ivory Bridge, Mountain Heart, Sawtooth, Morgans Run, Poor Benny, The Roe Family Singers, and Bill & Kate Isles
http://www.minnesotabluegrass.org/calendar/mbotmf/index.html

August 8-10, 2008 Feel Good Festival, Portage County Fairgrounds, Amherst, WI
Workshops on hula hooping, guitar picking, didgeredoo, ukulele, belly dancing. Friday August 8th is WORLD HOOP DAY! http://www.hooping.org
Ed Danger’s Dangergrass, Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank, Blueheels, My Dear Disco, Reptile Palace Orchestra, Dean McGraw, Sloppy Joe, Bowser, Salt Creek, Que Flavor, Bar Tab Band, Bears Acoustic Honey, Andy Schnieder, Deep Fried Grass, Vinny Bex Dae, Patchwork, Sean Schiel, Patchouli and more!
http://www.feelgoodfestival.org

August 8-9, 2008 Magic City Blues Festival, 2500 block of Montana Ave, Billings, MT
Delbert McClinton, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Albert Cummings, Bettye Lavette, Morland & Arbuckle, The Insomniacs, Po’ Henry & Tookie, Cedric Burniside & Lightnin’ Malcolm
http://www.magiccityblues.com

August 8-10, 2008 Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival (21st Annual), Grand Targhee Ski Resort, Alta, MT (This is a big festival, but I include it because the lineup is exceptional.)
Sam Bush Band, Blue Highway, Dan Tyminski Band, Tim O’Brien, Billy Nershi/Drew Emmitt Band,Sparrow Quartet w/Abigail Washburn/Bela Fleck/Casey Dreissen/Ben Solle, Darrell Scott Band and more.
http://www.grandtarghee.com