Sister Sadie at the 45th annual Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival - photo © Dale and Darcy Cahill Over Labor Day weekend, Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival celebrated its 45th birthday with an amazing line up, and a typically enthusiastic crowd
Thomas Point Beach
2023 Thomas Point Beach Festival in Brunswick, Maine
The Gibson Brothers at the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Festival - photo © Dale Cahill The 44th Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival was held under blue skies this year. Thomas Point's typically enthusiastic crowd of veterans and newcomers filled the seats
Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival – 2022 report
Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart at the 2022 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival It was clear at the 2022 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, ME that strict COVID protocols have been mostly lifted. Attendance was great and they sold out of
Labor Day 2021 at Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival
Missy Raines & Allegheny at the 2021 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival - photo by Dale Cahill We are just back from 2021 Thomas Point Bluegrass Festival, and although they celebrated their 40th year in 2019, this year felt like a
Creative solutions for post COVID bluegrass festivals in 2021
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
Thomas Point Bluegrass 40th Annual Festival
What more can you say about a festival that has been written about extensively over the last 40 years? The only thing to add to the conversation would be to tell you about how Mike and Jen Mulligan put together an
Thomas Point Bluegrass Festival does it again
Larry Sparks at the 2018 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival - photo by Dale Cahill Just before the final act on Sunday at the 2018 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival, promoter Michael Mulligan made a surprise announcement. There will be a festival next
Beg Steal or Borrow wins Thomas Point band competition
Beg Steal or Borrow competes in the 2018 Thomas Point Beach band competition - photo by Dale Cahill “Beg, steal, or borrow two nickels or a dime and call me on the phone.” These lyrics of Peter Rowan, from the groundbreaking
Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass festival – Day 1
Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass festival begins today. We arrived on Monday and have enjoyed swimming in the ocean, sitting on the beach, reconnecting with old friends and picking far into the night. Thomas Point is famous among bluegrassers for its
Thomas Point Beach lives again
One of the most enjoyable and relaxing festivals I ever attended back in the 1980s was the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival near Brunswick in southern Maine. A perfectly bucolic setting, along a sandy beach on one of the area's many