2023 Festival Schedule

Schedule & Acts Subject to Change

Thursday, July 27th

Opening Night Performances
Main Outdoor Stage or Inside Cozy Cove

For Artists' Pics & Bios, click plus (+) sign to the right on their time/listing box.

Friday, July 28th

Performances on Main Outdoor Stage

5 PM Bluegrass Institute of the Northwoods Intermission

Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, Meet & Greet Q & A
(Please have your thought-out questions ready and/or email them ahead of time)

With each band member a graduate of East Tennessee State University majoring in Bluegrass or the Bluegrass, Old-Time, Celtic and Country Music Studies program, there in itself spans enough material for a year’s worth of Meet & Greets Q & A’s. Nevertheless, it may be intriguing to ask them about their annual January Bluegrass Cruise to the Bahamas.

Performances Inside Cozy Cove

Saturday, July 29th

Performances on Main Outdoor Stage

5 PM Bluegrass Institute of the Northwoods

The Tim O’Brien Band, Meet & Greet Q & A
(Please have your thought-out questions ready and/or email them ahead of time)

To give patrons an outline of what might be discussed in this Meet & Greet session, it proceeds from a quote of Mr. O’Brien’s about a person who provided  him great inspiration: "Doc Watson's a great roadmap for anybody, really, because he played all kinds of music and made it sound like Doc Watson music," said O'Brien. "Of course, people put him in a bluegrass-folk music pigeonhole, but he really brought all of it together, and that's kind of what I was interested in." O'Brien found a simpatico musical community in Boulder, Colorado, where he moved in 1974 and became a leading figure in the world of contemporary or progressive bluegrass – most notably in the quartet Hot Rize, which toured nationally over its 40-year tenure and earned a Grammy nomination for its 1989 album "Take it Home." In the mid-'90s, O'Brien decamped to Nashville, where he became a first-call mandolin, guitar, fiddle and banjo player on Music City sessions, and collaborated with artists like Steve Earle, Sturgill Simpson and Dan Auerbach; Kathy Mattea, Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks cut his compositions, and in 2015 he won a Grammy as a member of the bluegrass supergroup the Earls of Leicester, a nice companion for O'Brien's 2005 Best Traditional Folk Grammy for his album “Fiddler’s Green”.

Performances on Main Outdoor Stage

Performances Inside Cozy Cove

Sunday, July 30th - Gospel Hours

Performances on Main Outdoor Stage