Since Joshua lives almost right off I 75 near Valdosta Georgia, it was not a difficult choice to make when I chose to start attending this Florida Bluegrass festival. I love this juxtaposition of so many different genres blended into one big deal here, and this Jamgrass stuff is quite pleasant to take in. Most of the festivals that these bands play at are quite family friendly and safe. I found that I feel very comfortable in places like this, and as I age, I’m finding this to be my norm. I’m also beginning to structure this to be my retirement from my regular job into this for “work”.

What I would like to one day do, is film a huge documentary about all of the music festivals I attend all into one big film. There are hundreds of small communities of different kinds of music that could easily benefit from intermingling with one another. Think about how amazing it would be to create a nationwide sector of places that all bands could use to play? Now then, this festival is a little different than others because instead of a larger list of bands, many of these bands played twice. I’m going to talk about the different sets in the same portion of each band’s place…. I hope that makes sense.

For the duration of this festival, the weather was gorgeous and then toward the evenings it became VERY chilly and windy. So before 8 or 9 this weather is amazing and then you better bundle up. But you know what? It’s VERY FUN to bundle up and enjoy some Bluegrass on into the night. This community is so calm and welcoming, that it is almost impossible to have a bad time here!

We have just rolled in and got checked in, they give you programs and all that upon arrival. Everything is quite easy to find and navigate. There are three stages that include the music for this festival, see it doesn’t even cover the entire park down here. There are so many other opportunities for activities if you’re not a music lover, and your friends are. At certain times there are a few bands that play on a few smaller side pop up stages, where you can grab an intimate beer with a small room, and also, they had a few workshops for people.

One of the few issues I had was with this venue. NOT THE FESTIVAL BUT THE VENUE. It’s CARD ONLY. . Having a good time is always ruined by business or some sort of private politics. However, upon being there longer, it honestly wasn’t an issue for me as both the store and the indoor stage bar area took cash. The first thing I thought of where people like me, who brought all cash. I mean usually I am out in the middle of nowhere and there isn’t a signal. That kind of kept me away from the vendors for food the first day because I could only support the venue’s places……just an observation. I didn’t like that because what I strive to do is bring forth the food and craft vendors WITH the music and events from the festival, which is something not many other websites provide.

So, before I begin to tell you about all of the bands and the layout of the overall festival, here are some of the hundreds of pictures we took of the weekend. I want to personally thank Erin Schloze and Dreamspider Publicity for the ability to wander around and hit up everything so easily.

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I took a short walk around to get the initial layout of exactly what I was dealing with this weekend and getting all my stuff turned on ready to go. There is so much going on at one time, that I usually try to get bits and pieces of everything. Who puts on this juggernaut festival? Where did it come from? Who are these people that frequent this event, and what the hell is Slopgrass? Well, rest assured after you read this you will know the answers to all of those questions. 

After we got the car settled in and found out exactly where we could do what, I went over to the Amphitheater to be greeted by the Big Cosmo’s Sunshine Daydream: Celebration of Life. Let’s dwell on that for just a moment, and also many of these non-band pics will be randomly above or below their respected article locations. 

In 1997 Mr. Randy Judy and his wife Beth began this festival at this park, where many of these folks have been converging to celebrate music and friendship in the Florida area. But they come from all over, like the Band Sloppy Joe that came from my home state of Wisconsin! (Even though I haven’t been up there for almost 20 years). You’ll read more about them in a moment, cause that’s where slopgrass is from. 

It’s quite easy to ascertain that some of these people have been coming here for half of their lives and there are two and three generations of Bluegrass fans that come here to do this. The main stage was packed at 3PM with laughter and love for their beloved creator who passed away in 2024. The Amphitheater was renamed in his honor this year, and his former band kicked it all off and closed it for 2025.

His band played a song called “Going Out Tonight”, which set my tone for what I was in store for. Just a huge, huge array of different styles of everything from Bluegrass to Jamgrass to what I like to call variety bands like they were. The Grateful Dead, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Marshall Tucker Band etc..They are NO genre, they have a litany of members doing a three ring circus of instrumental madness. I felt Prince there, The Doors, Country, even Trash Metal..yup it was loved on. You wait and read on.

After her lovely speech about him, I would’ve liked him. I remember when the Colts left Baltimore and much more she mentioned, and it was special to me that they invited me into their community this weekend. Because I am there to support this music, put money into their local economy and show further to the community that this festival brought me to feature it with my media blog here. And now, I urge YOU to buy tickets and visit. Let’s help this one grow even more folks, because these great people’s festival they started will long outlive their physical bodies. As Beth said, ” It became WAY WAY bigger than us”.  More pictures and we shall go into the bands.

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Food and merchandise vendors are quite known to me for as many festivals as I attend nationwide and many of them have been my lifelong friends. A long list of these food vendors I re met this weekend were and always are at Muddy Roots in Cookeville Tn, which was pretty much one of the many DIY’s that started it for me. In fact, one of the cooks that worked for the Ali Baba stand was kind enough to take my cash and put my food on his card, because the first day I was basically starving. 

REMEMBER for whatever mind-numbing reason CASH ONLY here. I will never make that mistake twice, because I missed out on merch also because of that reason alone! Now I will talk about the Music Hall later, which takes cash AND had a HUGE menu of bar food available, and it was VERY tasty. 

I was beyond elated to see my old friend Sarah Brown from Stoned Beautiful Jewelry was there much to my Suprise! The two of us enjoy swapping info on other festivals, so we can both keep the wheels rolling and make money, this business is always NEXT NEXT NEXT or you get forgotten about. There are literally 1000 websites that do what I do….but I do it BEST!

So now once again I will post a few more main area pics, and I’ll bring you on down to the field tent stage for an OG Bluegrass/Roots band I was excited to see, and it’s been YEARS since I heard any new music from them. And I am going to share with you some NEW OG bands I discovered here!

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So, back in 2012 I went to the Farmageddon Festival in Wisconsin where some of the OG Roots bands were hanging out and playing and I was starting to get into bands like Filthy Still and Jayke Orvis And The Broken Band. There I became really good friends with Shooter Jennings and Colonel Jon Hensley, who turned me onto MANY good bands like this one here. and I in turn would swap CD’s with them guys, and one of them he gave me was The Murder Chord by Grandpa’s Cough Medicine from North Carolina.

I ran into them both again sometime later at another festival I am quite sure would have been openly loved at Suwannee by a band called Goose Creek Symphony. That festival was the iconic Goose On The Lake, and we ALL loved Charlie Gearhart. We got into trading vinyl and 8 tracks, whatever we had to show each other new music!

This first band I had information on in my litany of notepads full of setlists and stuff to keep you informed about was indeed Grandpa’s Cough Medicine. This festival here is their stomping grounds for sure, and it is quite evident that it truly is. In fact, Brett Bass the leader of the trio had informed us he met his wife there and proposed to her there and now they are having a baby boy! If THAT ISN’T a Suwannee love story I don’t know exactly what is?

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This band took a little break but as long as I known about them this has been the staple lineup for the entirety of the band itself. Benny on that Banjo and Rex Putman on the upright bass whipped the shit out of us for several sets, and what I might do is touch on both sets in the same article portion. I might mention them in text as my notes tell me, and I have so many pictures that I was afraid to inundate you as a reader with them.

They did a tent stage set Thursday, and a Music Hall set on Friday, and I caught most of both. Cover songs adorned my head all weekend, and you didn’t hear me complain, but dammit, I wanted to hear from their new album called “Cancel This”, the politically incorrect masterpiece from 2024. Political songs of either side don’t really rub me in any way, but who doesn’t agree with the evils of pedophiles? The little babies are safe here as you can see above, and I enjoyed all the family pets and kids running around playing. Put your damn phone down and PLAY with YOUR babies…..cause they grow up quicker than a cat will lick its ass!

Most of this will be from their tent stage set, and I will close it out with two from the Music Hall set, how does that sound? So, they began with Dr. Ralph Stanley’s “Katie Daily”, and they played “Get Rhythm” and ‘Big River” (which as I write this in Western Kentucky, we got a hell of a big river). Both of those were in the style of John R. Cash indeed, and they did a Tommy Jackson song “Ragtime Annie”. It kind of made me upset back in the day when a lot of people wanted to hear 180 Proof for Hank III on it, which was GREAT but they are way more integral to indie music than just that.

The Murder chord song is where Thrash Metal is mentioned, and I LOVE IT and I get it man, like I said, Bluegrass, Jamgrass, Thrash Metal, Classical….It’s ALL celebrated here. I know the murder chord well, I think we all went from Reno and Smiley to Cannibal Corpse in our youth, I could just write for months about Albert King. Andy Hall on that dobro with the Stringdusters to Peter Rowan we had it all here this weekend. “Ain’t Got Wings” and “Crooked Cops” came from the Murder Chord album, and they also played “Beer Truck Drivin’ Man” from “Jailbird Blues”.

The leads on the cover of “Freeborn Man” scrambled my brains, as did the entire band on that. From the new album, they played “Your Body and Mine”, “Time for Me to Leave”. Additionally, their set in the Music Hall also included many good songs from the new album as well as covers. below are a few from that set.

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One of the most breathtaking parts of the entire festival is at night, when the lights come on. I love these festival lights up against the trees and all of the glow sticks flying around. The hula hoops and toys the kids play with come airborne. Up by the main stage tonight where everyone was getting ramped up for one of the main acts of the weekend. But before them, came a band from the Ukraine that I had heard of before but never had the opportunity to cross paths with them until now.

Scythian really turned me into a fan of theirs by all means. Apparently, they have had a ten-year absence from this festival but from they way they performed and were received you really couldn’t tell. Their overly unique style of Irish music rivals none but reminds me of things like Flogging Molly meets a Cajun Polka band, if that makes any sense?

Because they did in fact play one called an Irish Polka and from their 2015 album they played the song “Same Old Man”. Their history goes back quite far in fact it goes back to 2011, where their album called American Shanty boasts the Cajun infused song called “Hey Mama Ya”

Their set up on the Amphitheater stage tonight was amazing, they also played the tent stage on Friday, where they played songs called “The Motherland” with a story about going back to the Ukraine to visit graves. “Song Of Sacrifice” and “Dance All Night” were included as well. They had a really good stage presence overall, and I’m glad I found them here.

My only regret is that I didn’t get as many pictures of the other stages and the other bands that I had, as other bands like Sloppy Joe from my home state of Wisconsin. They are a family band that is a staple here but they have also taken a hiatus. As I stated before, I finally found out what Slopgrass is!

From their album called Touched In The Head from 2003 they played a song called “Moonflower Garden” , and another called “Foolish Pride” off their album called Fresh Frozen Slopgrass. It is another unique style of independent Bluegrass that I enjoyed listening to as we got ready to get dusted. They played a really fun song about belief in childhood called “Trust Your Cape”. It made me reminisce about us kids and how powerful we felt with those towels clipped to our necks. 

 The rest of their set included songs like “Ridin’ Bitch” ,”Anyhow” and another called “Fool’s Gold”. Other acts that we saw bits and pieces of were Quartermoon who played various Country classic songs like “Pancho and Lefty”, “Two More Bottles of Wine” and a splendid version of the song “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” in the style of the Grateful Dead and also The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. 

Now Sloppy Joe played again on Friday, and Quartermoon played on Saturday another set, and you can see a lot of them on Youtube. I watched many of them on there through a man called @dababe44 please look him up and support his channel. 

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“Smaller Acts”? Ummmm,no we don’t have those here. Right now let me post a few pics of some of the acts that played before the main act of the night, a legendary band called The Infamous Stringdusters.  There were a few bands that played other stages as well, and I went around and heard Nikki Talley And Jason Sharp sing a great version of “Wayfaring Stranger” and another called “Simple Song’.

The Grass Is Dead is basically a Bluegrass version of a Grateful Dead tribute band, which is absolutely enjoyable in my opinion! There were a bunch of people jamming out to songs like “Riding That Train, High On Cocaine”, you know the routine folks. We also had Blair Crimmins And The Hookers, who brought this really crazy Dixieland Ragtime Jazz.  They do stuff like tricked out versions of ‘Jambalaya” and it brought me to thinking of Pokey LaFarge and his Ilk, this was one of the bands I found that I really enjoyed their jokes. “We had an escort to the stage today, so they had an escort for the hookers”. 

Before I get into the Infamous Stringdusters and Donna The Buffalo, let me go into detail by saying many of these bands played multiple sets in other stages, and I might touch on some of their sets separately and I might not. Most usual cases on a three day festival my articles are quite lengthy,  with bands playing just one set, let alone two!

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So, let’s get on into Donna The Buffalo at the main stage tonight, where they started out with the song called “Motor” from the 2018 album called “Dance In The Street”, along with a song called “Heaven And Earth” from that album. There were two songs in between those two and one of them was a cover of an old classic called “Sittin On Top Of The World”. “Me And Depression” was an old classic from their album called “The Ones You Love” from back in 1997.

All of these bands that this festival features, sometimes goes into long instrumentals and they bounce around between songs with those instrumentals. “Family Picture is from their 2000 Positive Friction album, which is my favorite of album of theirs. Now, upon my further studies of their entire history, I noticed a lot of different directions the band has taken. 

The name kind of took root the same as Lynyrd Skynyrd in that someone suggested they name the band Dawn Of The Buffalo , and it was misunderstood to be Donna The Buffalo. This band has a plethora of past members and past stages of their career, and I studied the band as a whole. There was and is such an array of musicians who all contributed to the band in different ways. 

But Positive Friction was again their finest album to me, and the song called “Yonder” came from it and also the song called “Arrow Pointing Sideways”. I might go into their other sets this weekend; I remember that I had some other notes of other sets and appearances they had this weekend. Right now, I wanted to post some pictures and tell you all about one of my favorite bands of this type, they are The Infamous Stringdusters.

Andy Hall on dobro, Andy Falco on guitar, Chris Pandolfi on banjo, Jeremy Garrett on fiddle and Travis Book on vocals make up this band here, as most of you know. The 2010 album called “Things That Fly” they played one called “It’ll Be alright”. The Rise Sun album from 2019, they did play “Carry Me Away”, and they wound some instrumentals around numerous original and covers. But not just generic, shit covers..no Sir, these are covers with honorable reverence for tradition. 

They went and played circles through songs like “8 more miles to Louisville” made famous by many, my personal favorite being Grampa Jones. Before their original song “Gravity” off the album “Laws Of Gravity” from 2017 they did another cover called “Dig A Hole”. 

This band plays many of the festivals that we include on all of our festival lists, and they are loved nationwide by many and I think they were indeed the perfect choice to close out night one. We are having such a blessed and wonderful time out here at the Suwannee Park! Here are some more random pictures, and we shall get into Day 2.

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I began day 2 in the music Hall to see the entire The Po Ramblin Boys set, this is my third time to get to enjoy their set, as I have seen them on the Opry, and another festival as well. This band played twice on Friday, and I missed their first set, because I hit something on I75. So, I got there right for their inside set. I will have to say right now that this band was in my top 3 MUST SEE list, and they did not disappoint me one bit.

Their current banjo player Jereme Brown had some personal issues to tend to, and we wish him well. in his absence they introduced Colton Powers, who even sang a few in both sets today. This band came from East Tennessee in 2014 and has pretty much maintained the same staple lineup helmed by C.J Lewandowski on mandolin until last year when Josh Rinkle left. He was replaced by John Gooding, and I believe they all sang at different times. 

I love this band because they cling so hard to representing the traditional Bluegrass sound and the old timey songs like their song called “Old Time Ways”. Their harmonies and the way they trade off solos during the songs remind me of “Steel Bars And Stone Walls” from Carter and Ralph Stanley. Whether they are playing originals like “Drive Myself To Drinking” or covers like “Oh, Suzana” this band exemplifies Bluegrass in its truest form.

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I drifted around that morning when we got there, and I am not going to tag bands twice, so I did get to see Sloppy Joe play “Destiny Is A Train”, and also David Grier played an instrumental set with songs like “Cascade Little Darling”, and more. He played later on with Peter Rowan. See, a lot of these musicians played other sets with other people like we had Jim Lauderdale play with Donna The Buffalo play some of his timeless Patty Loveless tunes, as well as playing with my next set I wanted to talk about and that was none other than Fireside Collective from Asheville, North Carolina.

Jim Lauderdale played “Hole In My Head” AKA “Wild Goose Chase” from the Whisper album, and “The Race Is On” by George Jones. Fireside played “Moving On Down That Line” from the 2017 debut album called “Life Between The Lines”. Then they went around several songs with their ever popular Jamgrass instrumentals, like “Drivin Through The Rain” and into “When You Fall”.
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They introduced the newest member on drums named Michael Tillis, who joined in 2023. I think the fact that they have drums sets them aside from some of the more well known Jamgrass bands like the Infamous Stringdusters, and I enjoy the way they run those effects through the dobro. This band really delved deeply into the aura of their songs and brought that energy out to us as individuals. I don’t know…they called it “Progressive Bluegrass”? I just called it good music.

From the Elements album in 2020, they played “Back To Caroline”, as Tommy Maher and Joe Cicero displayed their talents. They played an unreleased new song from their new album they are working on before going into John Anderson’s “Seminole Wind”. They also played a song called “Winding Road” from the aforementioned Elements album. 

Many of the other bands played second and third sets by now already, and the next I wanted to talk about was a songwriter named Steve Poltz. To say that he is not a songwriting Legend that is today become almost obsolete in itself. He truly is one of the last of his ilk, the same way I think about Jerry Foster and many others. I truly think what made his portion of the festival so fun, was his storytelling and his ” OH LOOK A SQUIRREL” type of deal. He will talk about a subject and POOF he is off on another crazy story.

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If indeed you get into obscure OG bands like the one, he helped found The Rugburns, you will already have been familiar with him. Songwriters. That is indeed a long, long forgotten word nowadays. Even Garth Brooks said when he came back to music, that the city had been drained of songwriters. Why, even last night Joshua and I went down to the Opry and not many people recognized who Don Schlitz was or Rodney Crowell! Imagine That?

So, here is where I am going to jump around to shorten up some of the tail end of this article here. Many of the songs he did play were not even from an album per se, but on the mainstage on Friday he played “10 Chances from the album Chinese Vacation in 2003. His next song was “Over the Top for You” from the album Shine On. But I am about to tell you some reasons why I TRULY enjoyed his sets (yes, I will jump around).

“Ashoken Farewell” was featured on that Ken Burns Civil War documentary, and many people thought it was written during the Civil War, and honestly it was written in 1982. I left both of his sets with more knowledge than when I went in, the facts and the stories he spins take the audience into places they have never been to before. The story of the song called “Petrichor”, involving the band Phish….you got to go hear it yourself. Also played was a song called “Love A Little Bigger” with Vince Herman from Leftover Salmon, and another called “Dear Elon”.

His greatest moment of glory (as normal people would say) is the song he co wrote with Jewel called “You Were Meant For Me”. At the music hall on another set, he did a song called ” It’s Baseball Season” from the Stardust And Satellites album. Now as I also previously stated, Jim Lauderdale came around to play with just about every set on this festival. He followed that by songs he wrote for Billy Strings and one called “The Optimist” and “Silver Lining”.

I skipped around a few sets on my notes for the weekend as in this one “The Good Old American Dream” by the Ain’t Sisters and they were later joined by  Donna The Buffalo and others for the song “I will Die For You” by Prince. The next full set I caught was the Kitchen Dwellers. That set came from the Big Cosmo Amphitheater.

They began with “Cabin Pressure (IV)” from the 2024 banger album called Seven Devils, and then they went into an instrumental. A long, fun and trippy instrumental that you love to some to these festivals to witness. Then, they flat out welcomed everyone home. All of these festivals have a slew of people that consider that festival home. Also, from that album they played “Drop Tine” and more. “Sundown” from the Wise River album was included in this set, and they also did “Stand At Ease” from that same album.

However, within that long juxtaposition of songs they wind around things like “Unwind” (see what I did there) from the Seven Devils album, and they went into “Swamp Music”, then they went back into “Stand At Ease” again. They also played a song called “Shadows” from the 2019 album called Muir Maid, and “Their Names Are The Trees” from the Wise River album.

And staying focused upon their Wise River album, it brought forth another weaving instrumental of songs like “Drowning (……Again), which morphed into “Lean On Sheena” by the Bouncing Souls” and back to Drowning…Again. They then played “Seven Devils”. We have already talked about The Grass Is Dead, and we will touch upon John Stickley Trio soon. Right after this last drop of pictures from the last 2 days of footage I got.
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I bounced around a lot on the last portions of the entire event as a whole, to shorten up some of the initial written portions of the notes I had with me. One of the days in the Music Hall inside Peter Rowan focused his performance of his 2005 Reggaebilly album.

His Music Hall performance included songs like “The Cuckoo Bird”, “Little Maggie” and others in a reggae type theme of his previous songs and covers. The album before that, that also boasts the name of his backup band called “The Walls Of Time” had a song featured on this set called “The Walls Of Time”. I consider Peter Rowan a musical Legend in every sense of the word. I have been blessed enough to get to see him play Muddy Roots and another festival called John
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On his other set, he played many of his regular hits like “Walking In Jerusalem” and others. He was honored for being the only one that has played every Suwannee Spring Reunion, a title no other can certainly boast. He played “Dark As A Dungeon” in the style of its writer and his lifelong friend Merle Travis. Man, I tell you what….the stories he tells are true timeless gems.

“Roll On Buddy” and another called “Fetch Wood, Carry Water”, from the Reggaebilly album he featured in his previous set inside. This was on the Big Cosmos Ampitheater. He did some covers like the ever popular “In The Pines” and “I Am A Pilgrim”.

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So, now after we get into Sam Bush here, I am going to be touching on a few bounces around acts from today’s entire lineup. So yes, it is going to be from the Saturday lineup until I announce Sunday’s acts. I want to thank each and every one of you that have been reading this for this long. This was one of my top 3 MUST SEE slots for this entire festival. 

Sam Bush is indeed an American icon in my opinion, for many reasons. Mainly because he is one of the few that singlehandedly brought forth the “Newgrass” which bridged the gap between Traditional Bluegrass and Jamgrass (at least to me as a fan, it does). I guess the way I see it, Sam had many that inspired him to think outside the box and pave his own path into greatness. He has done many things to contribute to MANY genres of music and yet remains to call himself “Just a regular guy that plays music”.

In fact, the first song was “Unconditional Love” from 1987, and it was a Newgrass Revival song indeed. You know, I do a LOT of listening to XM radio and I like to listen to the DJ’s tell short stories and random music facts, like Steve Earle. He made a good point that music went in MID DECADES like 1975 to 1985, and you know what? He is RIGHT! 1985 – 1995 was a banger decade for so much music. 

After a jumping instrumental he went into other different songs back and forth before introducing all of the members of his band. Todd Parks on bass, Chris Brown on drums, Wes Corbett on banjo, and Steve Mougin on guitar made up his band, who have been a staple lineup for many years. As they played “Ridin’ That Bluegrass Train” from his 2006 album “Laps In Seven”, one can easily ascertain they are a well oiled machine. 19 years and 25 year members is a proud boast!

He then played one from his Tribute To John Hartford album from 2022 called Radio John: The Songs Of John Hartford, and it was called “Radio John”, before he went into his staple songs like “circles Around You Now”, and others. Everyone wants to hear that one. 

So now my friends less pictures and more article…yes. The Ain’t Sisters wow. Their song off their current album that is named after the album called “Atomic” is laced full of really terrific guitar leads and an upbeat vibe that embellished their middle set. They began with “Birds” and two more that are singles and not recorded. Those songs are “Fallout” and “Heart”. 

But the song “Beyond The Blue” was perhaps one of the best new songs ( to me) that I found this weekend for sure. The next song sounded like Thrash Metal with fiddles and twang….and I LOVED IT. I am not even totally sure what the name of that one was?  They had an album release party in Atlanta shortly after this festival here. 

Right now everything else I have is all bits and pieces until we get to another juggernaut main act tagged before and that is Fireside Collective. We caught more Peter Rowan and more Quarter Moon. I did a little more shopping today as I got a chance to solve my all cash issue I had. We also got to enjoy the Larry Keel’s Electric Portion and others.

We pretty much bounced between Sam Bush and Fireside Collective which sort of coincided with one another, but we are used to that with other festivals. This band is a young combination of guys that don’t have a long list of material out, but they still put on a hell of a show. They do stuff like “Nobody’s love Is Like Mine” by the Stanley Brothers, and other beloved covers that are still as precious now as ever.

from their own list of songs, they played “Cabin Song” and another called “Whippoorwill” ( No, it’s not the Blackberry Smoke song ). From the Elements album they played “Don’t Stop Loving Me”, and others. We got to see some of the acts from Sunday also, as well as many of the vendors we missed while watching all the shows. 

The last day included more sets from Peter Rowan, Steve Poltz, The Ain’t Sisters and Jim Lauderdale. I’m sure many of the same songs were played, and from what I took note of there were a few changes.  All in all, I had an absolute wonderful time down there in Florida, and I highly suggest this one! Here are some last pictures of the park.

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