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MASS MoCA Roots Music Festival Bulks Up Lineup with Dwight Yoakam, Del McCoury, Vieux Farka Toure, Punch Brothers, Leftover Salmon, Houndmouth and Others

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Trad-country-rocker Dwight Yoakam, bluegrass legends the Del McCoury Band, Indiana alt-country rockers Houndmouth, Malian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vieux Farka Touré, jam-band avatars Leftover Salmon, Boston-based trio the Ballroom Thieves, and acoustic roots band Cat and The Moon, and The Man in Grass, an all-star tribute to Johnny Cash, headline Freshgrass, the annual three-day bluegrass…

Old Crow Medicine Show Previews Fall Roots-Music Festival at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Old Crow Medicine Show, whose hard-hitting approach to old-time country, folk, string-band and bluegrass anticipated the neo-folk revival of bands including Mumford & Sons, Lumineers and Avett Brothers, performs at MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at 8pm. The show by the Nashville-based outfit…

Bluegrass and Roots Music Legends Are MASS MoCA-Bound

Infamous Stringdusters

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – With a lineup including Ralph Stanley, Del McCoury, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Alison Brown, Infamous Stringdusters, Leftover Salmon and Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall, MASS MoCA’s third annual FreshGrass Festival – which takes place this year the weekend of September 20-22, 2013 — solidly establishes for itself a place in the…