September 15-17
Mass MoCA
Music starts early in the museum courtyards, moves to our spacious (and grassy!) urban concert meadow, and then continues until past your bedtime with wild and woolly late-night barn dances in the Hunter Center on Friday and Saturday nights. The lineup is jam-packed with guitar gods and banjo gurus, traditionalists and trailblazers — artists you already know and love interspersed with FreshGrass discoveries. Taken together, it’s an expansive group of performers who both draw on the past and look to the future. We like to think of it as “great music uprooted.”
The FreshGrass Festival 2017 lineup includes: Brandi Carlile, Railroad Earth, The Del McCoury Band with special guest David Grisman, Shovels & Rope, Del & Dawg, Bill Frisell: Harmony, The Wood Brothers, Sarah Jarosz, Alison Brown, Crooked Still, The Lil' Smokies, Son Little, The Brothers Comatose, Red Baraat, Carrie Rodriguez, Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, Hackensaw Boys, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, The Suitcase Junket, Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band, The Last Revel, The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow, Mike + Ruthy, Cheick Hamala Diabate & Mankan, Victor Furtado, Julian Pinelli, The Page Turners, Cold Chocolate, Common Fold Jam, Izzy Heltai, Duo Eamon, Jeb Barry and the Pawn Shop Saints, Ladies Auxiliary Ukulele Orchestra, Long Journey Upstate Rubdown, Mama's Marmalade, Pinedrop, Ramblin Jug Stompers.
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