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Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots festival which takes place at Hunter Park in Manchester, Vermont, kicked off its third annual festival with a stellar line up, a fantastic site, and almost perfect weather. The program says it best, “With two festivals and a global pandemic under our belts, we could not be more excited.”
My guests this week are John and Jill Turpin the organizers of the Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival. The Festival is a music festival featuring a variety of bluegrass, roots and Americana music from both icons of the industry and innovative up-and-coming artists. Featuring a multiple stages, camping, local food trucks, Vermont craft beer and wine, and a magical Green Mountain setting!
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MANCHESTER — — The Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival returned from a two-year COVID hiatus this weekend at Manchester’s Hunter Park, bringing nationally known string instrument artists to the Northshire. Saturday’s headliners, the “American Acoustic” tour, featured the Punch Brothers, Watchouse and Sarah Jarosz. Punch Brothers’ energetic singer and mandolin player Chris Thile served as master of ceremonies as all three artists played their own sets, then joined on stage for a set-ending jam. Performers including Twisted Pine, Leftover Salmon, Hawktail, Ric Robertson and Bella White serenaded patrons, many of whom camped overnight on the Hunter Park grounds
For two years, the Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival was sidelined by the COVID pandemic. But the festival, held at Hunter Park in Manchester, returned in a big way with some big names in the bluegrass and Americana genres, as well as an enthusiastic crowd of fans. The festival drew the “American Acoustic” tour with Punch Brothers, Watchhouse and three-time Grammy winner Sarah Jarosz, as well as Twisted Pine and Leftover Salmon, among many more.
This time, the rain only managed to pause the Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival.
A short rain break Friday, and a two-hour thunderstorm delay on Saturday, could not keep an all-star lineup of bluegrass musicians from performing electrifying sets for adoring crowds over the weekend.
MANCHESTER — A year into existence, the Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival is like a family retreat for the artists who gather for four days of string music, dancing and fun.
Many of the musicians who performed at last year's inaugural festival were invited back for this year's event, which runs Aug. 15 to 18 at Manchester's Hunter Park at Northshire Civic Center. The artists recall the familial atmosphere that filled the festival grounds and stages and look back fondly on the time spent in Manchester —
More than a few times over the weekend at the Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Music Festival, locals were heard to say "this is exactly what this town needed."
By Greg Sukiennik, Manchester Journal
MANCHESTER — The first word that came to Jill Turpin's mind on Sunday afternoon was "gratitude."
That was how the co-founder of the Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Music Festival summed up the experience of the inaugural concert weekend, about five minutes after the final chord of the Grateful Dead standard "Ripple" had been played on the main stage by all the musicians who were still on the grounds, with organizers Jill and John Turpin as special guest vocalists.
By Telly Halkias, BWSV Correspondent
MANCHESTER, Vt. — When Sierra Hull hears the word "bluegrass," images of a warm, sultry day in her home state of Tennessee come to mind. Good thing, though, for the up-and-coming vocalist, guitarist and mandolin player that image — and the music that inspires it — can transcend state lines with a country-wide following.
By Cherise Madigan, Journal correspondent
MANCHESTER — The Northshire will be humming and strumming with acoustic melodies on Aug. 16-19, when the inaugural Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival rolls into Manchester's Hunter Park.