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Merlefest

Only 33 days till Merlefest!

Go see Doc Watson, Bob Wier, Gillian Welch, Steep Canyon Rangers, Robert Earl Keen, Emmylou, Sam Bush, Eustace Conway, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and LOTS AND LOTS of other local artists.

Im especially excited about the Avett Brothers and Tony Rice! Ive never gotten to see either of them.

All performing artists listed in the extended entry…

Doc Watson TFSS

Richard Watson TFSS

Susana & Timmy Abell FSS

R.G Absher & Extra Measure TSS

Alberti Flea Circus FSS

Angel Band FS

Paul Asbell FSS

The Avett Brothers TF

Biscuit Burners FS

Rory Block FS

David Bromberg Quartet FS

Alison Brown Quartet FSS

Roy Book Binder FSS

Laura Boosinger FSS

Sam Bush Band FSS

Bob Carlin FSS

Chatham County Line TF

Bob Childers FSS

Guy Clark FS

Slaid Cleaves FSS

Thad Cockrell & Caitlin Cary FSS

T Michael Coleman FSS

Eustace Conway FSS

The Cottars FSS

John Cowan Band TFSS

Donald Davis FSS

Cheick Hamala Diabate FSS

The Dillards TF

The Ditty Bops SAT

Dixie Dawn TFS

Robert Dotson SS

Double Decker String Band FSS

Jerry Douglas Band FS

Casey Driessen FSS

The Duhks FSS

Feufollet TFS

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones SUN

Flumpa & Friends FSS

Pat Flynn & Friends FSS

Frosty Morn Band SAT

Galax Little Leaves

Eliza Gilkyson FSS

The Grascals FSS

Grassroots Stages (film) Sat

The Green Grass Cloggers FSS

Mitch Greenhill FSS

Nora Guthrie SS

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion FSS

George Hamilton IV TFSS

Emmylou Harris SUN

Jason Harrod TF

Caroline Herring & Claire Holley SUN

Bob Hill

Algia Mae Hinton

Clyde Hollifield

David Holt & the Lightning Bolts FSS

Hot Tuna FSS

Hot Vegas SAT

Clint Howard Band FS

Ill-Mo Boys FSS

Interactive Theatre of Jef FS

The Isaacs SUN

David Jacobs-Strain FSS

Reverend Robert Jones FSS

Si Kahn SS

Robert Earl Keen FRI

Jimmy LaFave FSS

Jim Lauderdale & His Bluegrass Band FSS

Jack Lawrence FSS

The Lee Boys SS

James Leva FSS

Jon Lohman,Virginia State Folklorist FSS

Laura Love Band FSS

The Local Boys TFSS

Clay Lunsford TFSS

The Mammals SS

Bill Mathis TFSS

Andy May FSS

Mount Rogers Ramblers FSS

Nashville Bluegrass Band SS

NC Thumb & Finger Style Guitar Players SUN

Nickel Creek SAT

Pilot Mountain Bobcats FSS

Josh Pinkham & The Pinkham Family Band FSS

Maggie “Charlene Darling” Peterson TF

John Prine THURS

Harvey Reid & Joyce Andersen SS

Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway featuring Slaid Cleaves, Eliza Gilkyson, Jimmy LaFave, & Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion FSS

Tony Rice Unit FS

Paul Rishell & Annie Raines FSS

Peter Rowan FS

Darrell Scott TFSS

Wayne Scott FSS

Curly Seckler SAT

Mike Seeger FSS

Pete Seeger SS

Larry Skipper FSS

Joe Smothers FSS

Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers SAT

Steep Canyon Rangers TF

Bryan Sutton FSS

Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez FS

Tut Taylor TFSS

Joe Thompson SUN

Tom, Brad & Alice

Happy Traum FS

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason SS

Warren Wilson College Folk Choir SUN

The Waybacks (FSS) featuring special guest Bob Weir (F)

Bob Weir F

Charles Welch FSS

Gillian Welch FS

Pete & Joan Wernick TFSS

The Wilders TF

Wilkes Playmakers FS

Tony Williamson FS

JW Randolph

Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.

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