I took an entire 48 hours off to attend the NEPA Bluegrass Festival this year, and it was worth every moment. I heard incredible music like the US Navy Band Country Current (top,) took in impromptu pickin’ jams and relaxed with old friends and new along Tunkhannock Creek in LazyContinue Reading
Story by Rick Hiduk (Also published in Living Susquehanna-Wyoming County Magazine) The roster of talent continues to build at NEPA Bluegrass, a four-day festival of bluegrass and roots music slated for Thursday to Sunday, June 1 to 4. The family-friendly event will be held once again at Lazy Brook Park,Continue Reading
The US Navy Band Country Current (top) and The Kody Norris Show (above) are among the headliners to be enjoyed at this year’s NEPA Bluegrass Festival in Tunkhannock. As winter winds down and the first signs of spring appear, fans of bluegrass music in northeast Pennsylvania start getting excited aboutContinue Reading
By Rick Hiduk While Rhonda Vincent and a host of award-winning bluegrass artists hold down the Traditional Stage at this year’s NEPA Bluegrass Festival, the Progressive Stage will be teeming with pickers and mashers who take bluegrass music to new levels, bending the rules a bit to carve their ownContinue Reading
The “Queen of Bluegrass” will lead the pack at this year’s NEPA Bluegrass Festival, Friday to Sunday, June 1 to 3 at Lazybrook Park in Tunkhannock. Rhonda Vincent, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and fifth-generation musician, has received 13 awards each from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and Society for the PreservationContinue Reading
Marie (above, left) and Ernie King, owner of Ernie’s Tire Barn in Tunkhannock, enjoyed live bluegrass music on the high seas last week as part of Danny Stewart’s Bluegrass Cruise to the Bahamas. They look forward to joining the Stewarts in Lazy Brook Park in Tunkhannock Township May 31 toContinue Reading
Meathook BBQ from Laceyville (top), FonDippity from Dallas (above) and Grateful Roast Café from Nanticoke will be among the new regional food vendors featured at this year’s NEPA Bluegrass Festival. The 10th annual NEPA Bluegrass festival will be held from Thursday to Sunday, June 1 to 4 in Lazy BrookContinue Reading
The U.S. Navy Bluegrass Band, featuring Danny Stewart Jr. of Sugar Run on upright bass (top, far right), will be among the headliners on the roster of the 10th annual NEPA Bluegrass Festival at Tunkhannock this year. Another key act will be the Gibson Brothers (above). Fans of bluegrass musicContinue Reading
Returning vendors Jake and Katy Feather (top) of Color Me Crazy and Janelle LaValle (above) of Liberty Sisters Soap Company will be selling tie-dye clothing and accessories and products made from goats milk, respectively, at the NEPA Bluegrass Festival from June 2 to 5. The shopping selections don’t stop there! FolksContinue Reading