This year’s bleak bluegrass festival season left both musicians and festival lovers disappointed. While bluegrass fans held out hope that late summer and fall festivals might not have to cancel, one by one festival promoters all reached the same conclusion,
Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival
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Podunk’s New Home: The Goshen Fairgrounds
Now in its 23rd year, the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival may have found its forever home at The Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen, CT. Rich James, long time festival organizer, tells us that attendance was up and on Friday they had to triple the
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Podunk’s Telefunken Band Competition contestants for ’19
The Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival has announced the competitors for this year's Telefunken Band Competition. The annual invitational event selects the four best entrants who submit applications, and then choose a champion on stage during the August festival. Festival staff look
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New location announced for Podunk Bluegrass Festival
The Podunk Bluegrass Festival has announced a new location for the popular Connecticut event, starting in August 2019. Following this year's festival, the five year lease Podunk had with the Hebron Lions Club expired, and the organizers were informed that the
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2018 Podunk Bluegrass Festival wrap up
Fairgrounds at Podunk 2018 made for easy, organized camping - photo by Dale Cahill It has been ten years since we last attended the Podunk Bluegrass Festival, and boy how it has changed. This summer, we finally returned to enjoy Podunk’s
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Pretty Saro wins 2018 Telefunken Band Competition at Podunk
Kevin Hale, winner of Podunk’s 2017 songwriter’s competition, returned to Podunk Bluegrass Festival again this year this time to judge the 2018 Telefunken Band Competition. His winning song from the year before, Angels from Appalachia, was one of the required
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Podunk Bluegrass Festival kicks off in Connecticut
The 22nd Annual Podunk Bluegrass Festival is underway in Hebron, Connecticut. This is the fifth year Podunk has been held at the Hebron Lions Fairgrounds and the organizers and their team of over one hundred volunteers clearly know what they
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Beg, Steal or Borrow wins 2017 Podunk Band Competition
Beg, Steal Or Borrow competing at the 2017 Podunk Bluegrass Festival - photo by Ted Lehmann Last weekend's Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Hebron, CT saw the selection of Beg, Steal Or Borrow as the winner of the band competition. They were
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2017 Podunk Songwriters Competition finalists announced
The Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival in Hebron, CT has announced the finalists for their 2017 Songwriters Competition. Entrants are judged in three rounds of competition. In the first round, all submitted songs are considered by a panel of professionals, who determine
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2016 Songwriters Contest finalists at Podunk
The Podunk Bluegrass Festival has announced the finalists in their 2016 Songwriters Contest. The three selected songwriters will perform their songs at the festival on August 13 on the main stage in Hebron, CT. In addition to cash prizes and tickets to