The Bluegrass Patriots perform at our 21st Annual Bluegrass Festival. Oh, what harmony!Volunteers finally get to relax after construction of the festival stage.NNBA volunteers at a post festival campground jam.The F-150's perform at our 21st annual Bluegrass Festival. They are hot!Gorgy Ohliger "The Banjo-ologist" demonstrates at a workshop during our 22nd Annual Bluegrass Festival.

The 2008 Bower's Mansion Bluegrass Festival

August 16th: Main Festival on the Bowers Mansion Grounds

The 2008 Workshops:

Remember those surveys many of you filled out last year? Guess what - we read them! The most common request was to expand the workshops so each of you could attend more than one and not have them during lunch. Well, we've done just exactly what you've asked!

This year we've expanded the workshop sessions from just one hour covering multiple workshops during lunch to 4 hours with only 2 concurrent workshops. We've also tried to group the tandem workshops to minimize conflict in your choices as to which one to attend. We've set the workshops to begin on the hour. Most of the stage performances are staggered to begin on the half-hour. This means you should be able to catch some portion of every performance!
 

Workshop Schedule

Time Session A Session B
11AM Upright Bass with Lisa Burns of Sidesaddle & Company Old Time Fiddle & Banjo Fiddle with Chris Bayer and Mary Siders
1PM 3-Finger Banjo with Rob Horgan, Sidesaddle & Co. Bluegrass/Old Time Fiddle with Lee Anne Welch, Sidesaddle & Co.
2PM Clawhammer Banjo with Mary Siders of Chris Bayer & Company Band harmony and Arranging with Sawmill Road
3PM Dobro/Slide Resonator Guitar with Michael Chambon of The BarBQ Boys Bluegrass Flatpicking Guitar with Charlie Edsall of Sawmill Road

 

 

 

 

 

 

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