Rudyfest

If you've ever attended Rudy Fest or the Poppy Mountain Music Festival in Kentucky, chances are you've met Jerry "Chainsaw" Bryant. For some time Chainsaw has done maintenance on site, helped park cars, and done odd jobs at Poppy Mountain.

After this year's flash flooding, no one would have been surprised to hear that Rudy Fest was packing it in. The site in Grayson, Kentucky where the festival is held was inundated with 5'' of rain in short order on

No one who was in attendance at Rudy Fest 2017 will ever forget being there. Everyone had to be evacuated from the campground, artists and audience alike, when 5 inches of water fell on the area in a short space

Rudy Burchett onstage with The Grascals at Rudy Fest 2015 We had a chance to catch up this morning with Rudy Burchett of Rudy Fest about their plans going forward after the flash flood that ravaged the Carter County Fairgrounds on

Rising water just before dusk at Rudy Fest (6/23/17) - photo by Josh Trivett Usually it's a good thing when bluegrass makes it to the evening news. But a story of natural disaster is rarely happy news in anybody's book. Last night

Volume Five opened Thursday at Rudy Fest 2015 to an appreciative crowd. Their set was washed out by rain last year, but sunshine held for this year’s! Wildfire followed providing some memories of time spent with J.D. Crowe. Danny Davis joined

Rudyfest kicked off Tuesday night with a surprise road guest. Lorraine Jordan was passing thru Grayson, Kentucky and stopped in at the festival grounds. She rounded up the Carolina Road crew and opened the festival, featuring a number of tunes