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I can hardly wait for the Clack Mountain Festival this year. There isn’t much better than live Bluegrass music. I especially look forward to hearing Chris Stapleton with The Jompson Brothers. I caught Chris when he was with the SteelDrivers at the Clack Mountain Festival in 2008. Dave Evans and the Tommy Webb Band are both awesome and either one of them alone would make it worthwhile to get yourself over to this festival.
You’ll see me there taking pictures and enjoying the whole thing!
Now for info on the Clack Mountain Festival!
An eclectic array of regional and national artists will highlight the third annual Clack Mountain Festival, to be held June 4 -- 5, 2010, in downtown Morehead, Kentucky.
Scheduled artists include rising stars Ben Sollee and Jill Andrews, bluegrass legends Dave Evans & River Bend and Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time, and an assortment of well-regarded regional acts.
The festival, previously known as Bluegrass & More, is held in conjunction with the annual Day in the Country folk art show and sale, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 5.
The festival stretches from the Moonlight Stage, near the Cora Wilson Stewart Moonlight School in the historic First Street Arts District, all the way down to the Morehead Conference Center and the Kentucky Folk Art Center. Craft and food booths will run the length of First Street.
Admission Friday night is free, admission Saturday is $5.
Friday night kicks off with the old-time Dixieland blues of Woody Pines (from Asheville, N.C.), followed by the much -- honored bluegrass of Dave Evans & River Bend (originally from Portsmouth, Ohio).
The Tommy Webb Band ~ 2009 Clack Mountain Festival
Music begins Saturday morning at 11 a.m. with student bands from the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music. Bluegrass acts include Coaltown Dixie (Pike County, Ky.), Hazel Holler (Morehead, Ky.), the Tommy Webb Band (Langley, Ky.), and Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time (Nashville, Tenn.).
Sasha Collette and the Magnolias (Olive Hill, Ky.), Kevin Gordon (Nashville, Tenn.), and Jill Andrews (Knoxville, Tenn.), formerly of the everybodyfields, will give the festival a contemporary Americana flavor.
The Jompson Brothers (Nashville, Tenn.), will bring the Clack Mountain Festival to a rousing close Saturday night. They are a Nashville -- based blues -- rock quartet led by Chris Stapleton, better known as the lead singer of the Steeldrivers, a much -- decorated bluegrass ensemble.
The Clack Mountain Festival is presented by Morehead Tomorrow, a nonprofit civic group devoted to revitalizing downtown Morehead. Principal sponsors include the Morehead Tourism Commission, Morehead State Public Radio, the Kentucky Folk Art Center and the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music.
Morehead, Kentucky, is a short hour east of Lexington and two hours east of Louisville on I -- 64. It’s an hour west of Huntington, W.Va., and two hours south of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sponsorship opportunities remain. Volunteers are, naturally, always welcome.
CONTACT INFO:
Terri Alderman, Morehead Tourism Commission
111 East First Street
Morehead, KY 40351
1 800 654 1944
or (606) 7804342
Official website www.clackmountainfest.com
Now give a listen to some of these greats!
Dave Evans & River Bend
The Tommy Webb Band -- Hard Row To Hoe
Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time
The Jompson Brothers
I missed the festival in Morehead last year but I will be planning to make it this year. Hazel Holler and Tommy Webb are a couple of my favorites.
I really look forward to these this year I have been waiting for summer so much this year for some reason and I plan on living it up me and my family will most likely hit every bluegrass festival this summer that we can may even travel further out of Morehead to go to things of this sort
thank you for the updates sweetie.