The 29th annual Black Hills Bluegrass Festival will be Friday, June 26, through Sunday, June 28, at Mystery Mountain Resort on U.S. Highway 16 south of Rapid City.
Musical performers include The Martins, Midnight Flight, GreenMan, Chuck Suchy and the Black Hills Bluegrass Band. The Black Hills in Motion Cloggers also will perform.
In addition to musical entertainment, the festival will include workshops in music, songwriting and clogging, plein air painters and traditional arts demonstrations.
The Martins is a family bluegrass group that won the SPGMA International Band Championship 2007 and Instrumental Group of the Year 2004-07.
Midnight Flight brings its traditional bluegrass from the Ozarks with vocal harmonies and a touch of humor. The Missouri-based band performed at the festival in 2006. Midnight Flight won the SPGMA Midwest Traditional Bluegrass Band of the Year in 2006 and 2007 and the Single Mic Championship in 2007.
GreenMan Band plays the traditional music of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany. The group melds those traditional influences with contemporary arrangements.
Chuck Suchy is a working farmer born and raised in the blue hills along the Missouri River near Mandan, N.D. His songs portray American farm life.
For more information, call the Dahl Arts Center at 394-4101 or go to www.thedahl.org/bluegrass_festival.
If you go
What: Black Hills Bluegrass Festival
When: Today through Sunday, June 28
Where: Mystery Mountain Resort, nine miles south of Rapid City on U.S. Highway 16
Tickets: $15 single show, $25 Saturday, $35 weekend. Children younger than 12 are free.
Black Hills Bluegrass Festival schedule
Friday, June 26
7 p.m. Chuck Suchy
7:50 p.m. Midnight Flight
8:40 p.m. GreenMan
9:30 p.m. The Martins
Saturday, June 27
Workshops
9 a.m. Banjo, Roger Matthews
9 a.m. Mandolin, Kevin Schults
9 a.m. Kids fiddle and bluegrass
10 a.m. Vocal harmony, The Martins
10 a.m. Guitar, Jimmie Allison
11 a.m. Kids performance
11 a.m. Songwriting, Chuck Suchy
11 a.m. Celtic music instruments and styles, GreenMan
11:30 a.m. Clogging, Kayla Gahagan
Performances
1:30 p.m. GreenMan
2:20 p.m. The Martins
3:10 p.m. Chuck Suchy
4 p.m. Midnight Flight
7 p.m. Chuck Suchy
7:50 p.m. Midnight Flight
8:40 p.m. The Martins
9:30 p.m. GreenMan
Sunday, June 28
10 a.m. Cambria String Band
10:35 a.m. Midnight Flight
11:20 a.m. The Martins
Posted in News on Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:00 pm | Tags: Bluegrass Festival, Mystery Mountain Resort
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