The Show's Back On!

Learned last week that the 41st Charlotte Bluegrass Festival will be held, on June 20 to 22 at the Charlotte, Michigan, fairgrounds.

Featured performers will include the Grascals (pictured above from last year's fest), IIIrd Tyme Out, Marty Raybon, and Audie Blaylock & Redline. Also appearing are Shannon & Heather Slaughter's band County Clare, and the Darrell Webb Band. The other bands appear to be mostly midwestern regional groups, and the show's got sort of a makeshift look to it. But that's OK, since it appears that they started working on this in February, after many bands had committed to be elsewhere.

There's more info on the festival's Facebook page than their website.

Dixie Bozung and Doris Peiffer have put up some fun photos from early Charlotte festivals on FB, by the way. Dixie's parents' band, Homegrown Grass, played the festival circuit for several years. I see from those photos that Lester Flatt played at the Charlotte Festival in the 1970s. Can't say I'm surprised, but that was before I moved to the area.

I have, of course, purchased my ticket....