2023 Main Stage

Steep Canyon Rangers (Sat)

Authentic Unlimited  (Sat)

East Nash Grass (Fri)

Kristy Cox & Grasstime with Jerry Salley (Fri)

Henhouse Prowlers  (Sat)

Darin & Brooke Aldridge (Fri)

Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass  (Sat)

Full Cord (Thurs, Fri)

Lindley Creek  (Sat, Sun)

Mike Mitchell Band  (Sat)

Breakin’ Strings (Fri and Sat)

Serene Green (Fri)

Greystone Rail (Thurs)

 

2023 Housatonic Stage

Funky Grass

Bend in the River

Restless Mountain Bluegrass Band

Dale and Darcy Band

Mama Corn

The Leftovers

Wood Flower

Poor Monroe

Mike Burns and Highway 53

Grillbillie Project

River City Slim & The Zydeco Hogs

Hosmer Mountain Boys

Hope Valley Volunteers

Too Blue

Breakin’ Strings

Magnolia Cajun Band

Contra Dance with the Dale & Darcy Band with Rich Sbardella (Caller)

2022 Main Stage

Dan Tyminski Band

The Jerry Douglas Band

Sister Sadie

Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers

The Kody Norris Show

Junior Sisk

Seth Mulder & Midnight Run

The Alex Leach Band

Stillhouse Junkies

Williamson Branch

The Bad Oats

Colebrook Road

Redwood Hill

Four Bridges

Eugene Tyler Band

2022 HOUSATONIC STAGE

Jack Jolie

Old Hat Troubadours

Restless Mountain Bluegrass

The Splinters

Blue Plate Special

Eugene Tyler Band

Wool Hats String Band

The Campground Stompers

Zydegroove

Poor Monroe

Local Freight

Wires and Wood

On The Trail

Too Blue

The Empty Bottle Ramblers

 

2021 Main Stage

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper

Billy Droze

The Jacob Jolliff Band

The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys

David Peterson & 1946

Circus No. 9

AJ Lee & Blue Summit

Maria Droze

Bill And The Belles

Zink & Company

Rock Hearts

Beg, Steal Or Borrow

Grain Thief

Still Pickin’

The Platescrapers

2021 Housatonic Stage

Eugene Tyler Band

Jack Jolie

The Dale & Darcy Band

Bend In The River

Four Bridges

The Jamblers

Sleepy Hollow String Band

The Grillbillie Project

Moonshine Falls

The Squeezebox Stompers

2021 Telefunken Band Competition

The Bad Oats – Winner

The Green Sisters – Fan Favorite

West King String Band

On The Trail

 

2020- No Festival Held

 

2019 MAIN STAGE

81 South
Bill Thibodeau Band
Damn Tall Buildings
David Davis & The Warrior River Boys
The Feinberg Brothers
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
FY5
Nothin’ Fancy
Phil Leadbetter & The All-Stars of Bluegrass
Pretty Saro
Red Molly
Ruta Beggars
Travelin’ McCourys
Unspoken Tradition
Wide open Spaces

2019 SHOWCASE STAGE

The Bluegrass Nighthawks
Angry O’Haras
Still Pickin’
Sweetcake Mountain & Friends
The Plate Scrapers
Angry O’Haras
Wide open spaces
Jack Jolie
81 South
Yard Sale
Restless Mountain Bluegrass Band
The Beantown Buckaroos
Grain Thief
The Grillbillie Project
Big Draw
Five In The Chamber
Switch Factory
Planet Zydeco

2019 BAND COMPETITION

The Plate Scrapers – Winner
Grain Thief – Fan Favorite
Restless Mountain Bluegrass Band
Switch Factory

 

2018 MAIN STAGE

Tim O’Brien Band

Balsam Range

Flatt Lonesome

The Virginia Ramblers

Kristy Cox & Calder Highway With Jerry Salley

The Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show

The Honey Dew Drops

Flashback

Dale Ann Bradley

Beg, Steal or Borrow

Corn Fed Dogs

The Zolla Boys

Mike Mitchel Trio

2018 SHOWCASE STAGE

Bend in The River

Wide Open Spaces

Grass Routes

Andrew Bohrmann

Open Mic with Jack Jolie

The Zolla Boys

River Bones Band

Jack Jolie

Still Pickin’

Sinner’s Pie

Black Jack Crossing

Dale & Darcy Band with Neil Rossi

Seat of Our Pants

Jackson’s Island

Collinsville String Band

Restless Mountain Bluegrass Band

BluesGrass

One Way Track

Cajun/Zydeco Dance with The Squeezebox Stompers

2018 TELEFUNKEN BAND COMPETITION

Collinsville String Band

Blackjack Crossing

Pretty Saro

River Bones Band

 

2017 MAIN STAGE

Rhonda Vincent

Gibson Brothers

Boxcars

Surly Gentleman

David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition

Chasing Blue

Barefoot Movement

Mile Twelve

Becky Buller Band

Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike

 

2016 Main Stage

Abby Hollander Band

Alison Brown

Colebrook Road

Claire Lynch

The Del McCoury Band

Jeff Scroggins & Colorado

Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers

Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice

Ronnie Reno & Reno Tradition

Sideline

Sierra Hull

The South Carolina Broadcasters

Southern Raised

Bluegrass Gospel Sing & Jam with Mike and Mary (Su)

2016 Telefunken Band Competition

Damn Tall Buildings

Five In The Chamber

Man About a Horse

Mile Twelve

2016 Acoustic Stage

Seth Adam

Belle Of The Fall

The CarLeans

Frank Critelli

Heather Fay

The Girls From Ruby Falls

The Hot Flashes

Sarah LeMieux

Daphne Lee Martin

The Meadows Brothers

Podunk Throwbacks

Ponybird

Jeff Przech

Arms & Voices

Them Damn Hamiltons

Andy Wakeman

Nancy Tucker   Special Kids show

 

2015 Main Stage

Blue Canyon Boys

Chris Jones & The Night Drivers

Detour

Gold Heart

James Reams & the Barnstormers

Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers

The New England Bluegrass Band

The Railsplitters

Sister Sadie

Special Consensus

The Seldom Scene

The Zolla Boys replacing Tumbling Bones

Bluegrass Gospel Sing and Jam with Mike & Mary

2015 Telefunken Band Competition

Michelle Canning & Rough Edges, MA

Colebrook Road, Camp Hill, PA

Four Bridges, Plymouth, MA

PossumHaw, Burlington, VT

2015 The Acoustic Music Stage

Ebin-Rose Trio

Five In The Chamber

The Gail Wade Trio

Goodnight Blue Moon

Hannah Fair with The North End Honeys

Heather Fay

Krizta Moon

The Meadows Brothers

Michael Day  (Formerly of Little Ugly)

Milksop:Unsung

Ponybird

Them Damn Hamiltons

Belle of the Fall with Tracy Walton and Julia Autumn Ford

Tuesday Saints

On Deck Sound Studio Showcase – on the Acoustic Stage

David Coffey

Andy Wakeman

Belle of the Fall with Julia Autumn Ford and Tracy Walton

Jeff Przech

Jay Roberts

Seth Adam

 

2014 Main Stage

The SteelDrivers

Nu-Blu

Donna Ulisse & Poor Mountain Boys

Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa

Claire Lynch Band

Blue Highway

Three Tall Pines

Jeanette Williams Band

Larry Stephenson Band

Adkins & Loudermilk

The Bankesters

2014 Telefunken Band Competition

The Bondville Boys

The Zolla Boys

My Brother’s Keeper

Tumbling Bones

2014 Workshop Stage     

Krizta Moon

Wise Old Moon

The Meadows Brothers

Canyon

Hannah Fair

Still Pickin

Tina Louise

Ebin-Rose Trio

Tuesday Saints

Little Ugly

 

2013 – No Festival Held

 

2012 Main Stage

The Roys

The HillBenders

Lonesome River Band

Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters

Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom Gray

Belfry Fellow (formerly Rockin Acoustic Circus)

Dale Ann Bradley

Dailey & Vincent

Travers Chandler and Avery County

Spinney Brothers

NewTown

Special Consensus

The Grascals

Original New Coon Creek Girls

Kathy Mattea

 

2012 Band Competition

Jersey Corn Pickers

Poor Old Shine

Hub Hollow

Three Tall Pines

 

2011

Mac McHale & Radio Gang

Dixie Bee Liners

The Travelin’ McCourys

Fitzmaurice

Dan Paisley & Southern Grass

Steep Canyon Rangers

Mountain Heart

Katie Wilson & The Two Time String Band

Chris Jones & The Night Drivers

Darin & Brooke Aldridge

Kruger Brothers

Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

Donna Ulisse and The Poor Mountain Boys

The Grass Pistols

Reunion Hill Band

Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys

Travers Chandler and Avery County

Grace Adele & The Grand Band

 

2010

David Davis and the Warrior River Boys

Blackstone Valley Bluegrass

The Expedition Show

Southern Rail

James Reams & the Barnstormers

Freight Hoppers

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper

The Greencards

Hot Buttered Rum

Packway Handle Band

The Earl Brothers

Next Best Thing

Josh Williams Band

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

The Gibson Brothers

The Earl Brothers

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder

 

2010 Band Competition

Packway Handle Band (2009 Winners)

Chasing Blue

Nitpickers

Crunchy Western Boys

The Crossfire Bluegrass Band

Katie Wilson and the Two Time String Band

Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters

 

2009

Our Masters of Ceremonies included:
Kim Cyr (President CT Bluegrass Assoc.), Stan Zdonik (BBU and Vice-Chairman IBMA) and Jim Beaver

The Lovell Sisters

Bearfoot (AK)

Special Consensus

Alison Brown Quartet with special guest Joe Craven

Wells Family Band

NewFound Road

Grasstowne

Del McCoury Band

James King Band

IIIrd Tyme Out

Steep Canyon Rangers

Dailey Vincent Band

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

Natalie MacMaster

2008 Band Competition Winner – Gold Heart

 

2009 Band Competition

Liberty Bluegrass

The Packway Handle Band

Mason Porter

Broken Blossom

James King Band – Gospel Set

 

2008

Our great Masters of Ceremonies included:
Kim Cyr (President CT Bluegrass Assoc.), Stan Zdonik (BBU and Vice-Chairman IBMA) and Jim Beaver

Nothin’ Fancy

Gravity (Sweden – Scandinavia)

Dale Ann Bradley Band

Cadillac Sky

Auldridge, Lester & Ferguson, Gail Wade, Kene Hyatt and Marc Roy

Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show

Dailey Vincent Band

Claire Lynch Band

The Muellers

The Infamous Stringdusters

Dan Paisley & Southern Grass

Blue Moon Rising

SteelDrivers

The Larry Stephenson Band

Larry Cordle, Carl Jackson & Jerry Salley

2007 Band Competition Winner – Joy Kills Sorrow

Cherryholmes

Tony Trischka Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular WITH SOME VERY SPECIAL GUESTS: Ron Block, Mark Johnson, Bill Keith, Joe Mullins, Alan Munde, and Pete Wernick

Blistered Fingers

Pine Mountain Railroad – Gospel

 

2007

Our great Masters of Ceremonies included:
Kim Cyr (President CT Bluegrass Assoc.), Stan Zdonik (BBU and Vice-Chairman IBMA) and Jim Beaver

Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters

Hunger Mountain Boys

Mike Cleveland and Flamekeeper, featuring Audie Blaylock

Jesse McReynolds & Virginia Boys ~ 60 Years in Bluegrass!

David Parmley and Continental Divide

Miller’s Crossing

The Biscuit Burners

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

Mountain Heart

Pine Mountain Railroad

Lost and Found

Lonesome River Band

Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain

The Grascals

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

 

2006

Our M.C.s were Kim Cyr and Stan Zdonik.

High Range

Hit and Run Bluegrass Band

The Kruger Brothers with special guest Mike Cleveland

Sugar Creek

The Martin Family Band

King Wilkie

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

Del McCoury Band

Gibson Brothers

Dale Ann Bradley

The Martin Family Band

Special Consensus

Lonesome River Band

Cherryholmes

Sam Bush Band

 

2005

Our MCs were Kim Cyr and Wayne Bledsoe.

Too Blue

Larry Stephenson Band

Too Blue

Larry Stephenson Band

The Del McCoury Band

Mike Burns & North Country

Donna Hughes Band

Pine Mountain Railroad

Mark Newton Band

Foghorn Stringband

Donna Hughes Band

Mike Burns & North Country

Larry Stephenson Band

Alecia Nugent & Band

Dale Ann Bradley

Auldridge, Stewart and Ferguson with Emory Lester and Kene Hyat

Mountain Heart

Doc Watson with Richard Watson and Jack Lawrence

Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters

 

2004

Our M.Cs were Kim Cyr and Wayne Bledsoe.

Traver Hollow

Phil Rosenthal & Bluegrass Union

Buddy Merriam & Back Roads

Dale Ann Bradley

Blistered Fingers

Northern Lights w/ Vassar Clements

Jonathan Edwards

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

Jake Armerding w/ Vassar Clements

Dale Ann Bradley

Jonathan Edwards w/Northern Lights

Hunger Mountain Boys

The Chapmans

Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen

Del McCoury Band

Singing Conquerors

 

2003

Dudley String Band

Grass Routes

Hickory Project

Amy Gallatin & Hot Flashes

Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek

Laurie Lewis Band

Billie Sue & Mill Run

Larry Stephenson Band

Peter Rowan  w/ Vassar Clements

Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen

David Grisman Quintet

 

2002

Thunder Mountain Bluegrass

Amy Gallatin & Stillwater

Blistered Fingers

Dry Branch Fire Squad

The Larkins

Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek

Auldridge, Bennett and Gaudreau

Larry Stephenson Band

Vassar Clements w/ Northern Lights

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards w/Northern Lights

Seldom Scene Reunion-Featuring Tom Gray, John Starling, Ben Eldridge, Mike Auldridge with Larry Stephenson

 

2001

The Larkins from Dollywood

Blistered Fingers

Northern Lights

Teresa and the Playground

Smokin’ Grass

Auldridge, Bennett & Gaudreau

Hickory Project

The Singing Conquerors

Northern Lights w/ Vassar Clements

Emmylou Harris

 

2000

Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters

Orange Blossom Bluegrass

The Kruger Brothers from Switzerland

The Judith Edelman Band

Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show

Melanie

 

1999

Thunder Mountain Bluegrass

Skip Gorman & His Waddie Pals

Eddie & Martha Adcock

Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show

Unlimited Tradition

Kathy Kallick Band

Chris Thile & Nickel Creek

Peter Rowan & Tony Rice

Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

 

1998

Traver Hollow

The Gibson Bothers

Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

Dave Evans & Riverbend

Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek

The Charlie Sizemore Band

Goins Brothers

Tim O’Brien & The O’Boys

Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals

 

1997

Grassroots

Gillis Brothers

Nashville Bluegrass Band

New Vintage

Blue Highway

Claire Lynch & The Front Porch String Band

Lonesome River Band

John Hartford

 

1996

Case Brothers
Northern Bound
Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters
Bill Emerson and Wayne Taylor Band
New Coon Creek Girls
Larry Sparks & Lonesome Ramblers
Lost and Found
Laurie Lewis & Grant Street
Mac Wiseman with Lost & Found
John Hartford