Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival

Circus No. 9 at the 2021 Podunk Bluegrass Festival - photo by Dale Cahill The campers were lined up on route 63 when Podunk Bluegrass Festival 2021 opened its gates on Wednesday, August 11 in Goshen, CT. Rich Heepe welcomed the

A summer without bluegrass was unimaginable last year. To our amazement, festival after festival decided to postpone their events until 2021. Many promoters held out hope, especially those who held festivals in the late summer and fall. However, as the

The Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival, held each summer in Connecticut for the past 25 years - except for 2020, when pandemic restrictions made that impossible - is all set to go forward with their 2021 event. It is wonderful news

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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