Early Bird tickets, passes, & packages are available via www.blueberrybluegrass.com for our annual celebration & gathering of all things bluegrass & acoustic. Join us in Stony Plain, Alberta Aug. 1-3 for a wonderful weekend of music. International bands, regional performers, great emcees, & jamming! Great facilities, and the music lineup always impresses. Come north- our dollar is crap and, as far as I can tell, no tariffs are to be added to festival passes!

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I could barely play a G run at the start of January so I’m pretty happy with my progress. My goal is to be good enough to join a bluegrass band by the end of the year, if anyone has any advice on how to get better / practice better, I’m all ears, thanks

Guitar player of five years been playing bluegrass for 2 of those. I can comfortably play ~15 or so fiddle tunes at 130bpm but my improv sounds pretty rough in my opinion. I feel like I’m resorting to a lot of the same licks and when I do try to break out of those patterns it sounds jumbled and doesn’t flow well.

I am more than comfortable jamming on tunes I know and tunes I don’t know I can usually fake it. I’m feeling a little stuck in my ways and am wondering if anyone has felt the same and what they did to get out of that rut.

Should I be learning more fiddle tunes? Transcribing solos from other players I like? I practice every day for at least an hour and play in a band with players who are definitley more advanced than me so I’m just trying to keep up as best I can.

Ive been waiting for the lineup to be announced for months. Tickets are now on sale and theres still no lineup announced? Am I missing something?

If any of you know of any annual/regularly scheduled festivals in Texas or Oklahoma could you list them below?

Thank you!!

We play a variety of original, contemporary Americana and Bluegrass music. We are Musicians and Songwriters interested in honoring the traditional while creating the new classics. We are located in East Tennessee Area.

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Local Folk Band pickin’ and skiing parties are a hoot!

Howdy all, I have recently learned of the album Long Violent History by Tyler Childers, an instrumental bluegrass/stringband album, and was wondering if y’all (those who know much more than I) could make a recommendation of some albums similar for me to put on the office I’m working. I find the instrumentals help a lot as background during the day. Anyways, thanks ahead of time :)

My husband and I are planning on going to ROMP for the second time this year. We stayed in a hotel last year, which was great, but we'd like to save a little money by camping this year. We camp in a tent, but like to have an electric hookup and access to water. We don't want to camp at the festival since it has no electric hookups (we don't want to bring a generator). Does anyone know of any campgrounds in the area with at least electric and nice showerhouses/restrooms? Within 20 minutes of the festival would be ideal!

After playing guitar off and on for around 12 years, I started getting into Bluegrass and have been taking lessons from a local teacher up here in the PNW, where it turns out there's a pretty thriving Bluegrass scene (or at least a much bigger one than I'd imagine in the greater Seattle area). I'm kicking myself for not having started sooner. Anyway, he told me about Wintergrass 2025, and I booked a ticket for next month!

Is anyone else going? Any tips for how I can make the most of my first bluegrass convention?

Chris Stapleton doesn't have any tour dates listed for May 30th, 31st or June 1st when The Steeldrivers will have their 3 night stand at The Caverns to celebrate their 20 year anniversary. 🤔🧐🤔🧐

A monster lineup this year! Can't wait to go this year.. shameless self promotion, I get to play for my 3rd year in a row with my group The Whiskey Drinks.

I know it’s a long shot, but I don’t know where else to ask since I can’t find any for resale anywhere. It’s my big brother’s birthday and I’m flying out to surprise him, he’s going to this show and I really wanna be able to double surprise him and join when the night comes! We are big bluegrass lovers and I know this community works in beautiful ways, so if anyone has an extra I could buy I would be so, so grateful! (Or if anyone has advice for a more relevant place to post this- thank you!)

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