Selected Labor Day Weekend festivals

To some, Labor Day weekend means "last chance for vacation." For others, it means "another soccer tournament." But it also means "lots of great bluegrass (and other) festivals." Here are links to information about the 4 bluegrass festivals I'll mention on the August 30 edition of the Black Diamond Show. All of these festivals are a day's drive or less from the greater New Haven area. Check out a festival! Support the music live!

• County Bluegrass Festival, Fort Fairfield, ME. Rhonda Vincent, IIIrd Tyme Out, Blue Horizon, and other acts.


• Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, Woodstown, NJ. Cherryholmes, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Riders in the Sky, Seldom Scene, and a lot of other national acts.


• North Branch Bluegrass Festival, Bridgewater, VT. This looks like a fun little "regional" festival--spaghetti dinners, jamming, song-writer's contest, and lots of bands from MA, VT, NH, and upstate NY.


• Rhythm & Roots Festival, Charlestown, RI. This used to be a cajun AND bluegrass festival. Now cajun, creole, bluegrass, old-time, zydeco--if it's "folk" and it's danceable, you'll hear it there and get to dance to it, too.