Festival Fever: Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival @ Walsh Farm, 7/18-21/13

They’ll be pickin’ and singin’ and grinnin’ once again this summer when the award-winning Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival once again takes over the Walsh Farm in Oak Hill. The four-day fest takes place from Thursday-Sunday, July 18-21, and as usual the Dry Branch Fire Squad will act as the fest’s host band, performing on all four days.

The initial rounds of band announcements including many of bluegrass music’s finest musicians, including the Del McCoury Band and its off-shoot the Travelin’ McCourys, the reigning International Bluegrass Music Associations’s Entertainers of the Year the Gibson Brothers, veteran banjo master Bill Keith, dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas, black stringband torchbearers the Carolina Chocolate Drops and many, many more.

Early bird all-festival tickets are $170 through May 15; children 12 & under are free. Single-day tickets are $55 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday; $25 on Sunday.

Here’s what we know so far about who’s playing when at the 2013 Grey Fox Bluegrass Fest:

THURSDAY, JULY 18
Dry Branch Fire Squad
Keller Williams with the Travelin’ McCourys
The Devil Makes Three
The Duhks
Deadly Gentlemen
Milk Drive
Beartracks
Ike Sheldon & Nate Gawron & the Moonlight Family Dance Hall Swingers
The Kickin Grass Band
Betse Ellis
23 String Band
John Kirk & Trish Miller

FRIDAY, JULY 19
The Del McCoury Band
The Gibson Brothers
The Infamous Stringdusters
Dry Branch Fire Squad
The Duhks
The SteelDrivers
Della Mae
Lonesome River Band
James King Band
Rushad Eggleston & Duncan Wickel
Ike Sheldon & Nate Gawron & the Moonlight Family Dance Hall Swingers
I Draw Slow
The Kickin Grass Band
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole
Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line
Milk Drive
New Country Rehab
Betse Ellis
The Stacks (Tania Elizabeth & Andy Stack)
23 String Band
Anne & Pete Sibley
Berklee Roots Road Show
Bill Keith
John Kirk & Trish Miller

SATURDAY, JULY 20
The Magnificent Late Night Grey Fox Supersonic All-Stars (Tim O’Brien, Jerry Douglas, Chris Thile, Noam Pikelny, Bryan Sutton, Casey Driessen, Barry Bales & special guests)
Jerry Douglas Band (Shaun Camp, Tim O’Brien, Barry Bales, Charlie Cushman & Johnny Warren)
Tim O’Brien (with Bryan Sutton, Noam Pikelny, Casey Driessen & Mike Bub)
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Dry Branch Fire Squad
Chris Thile & Michael Daves
Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys
Della Mae
The Special Consensus
I Draw Slow
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole
Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line
New Country Rehab
Anne & Pete Sibley
Rushad Eggleston & Duncan Wickel
Six Deadly Venoms
Berklee Roots Road Show
Bill Keith
John Kirk & Trish Miller

SUNDAY, JULY 21
Dry Branch Fire Squad
The Special Consensus

GO HERE for a complete schedule of concerts and workshops…

ADDITIONAL UPCOMING FESTIVALS FOR 2013:
Knickerbocker Film Festival @ various locations, Albany, 4/2-4/13
Behemoth Music Festival @ Putnam Den, Saratoga Springs, 4/5/13
Rock n Roll Resort v3: Tiny Rager @ the Hudson Valley Resort & Spa, Kerhonkson, 4/12-14/13
MOVE Music Festival @ various locations, Albany, 4/26-27/13
WILDWOODstock @ the Parting Glass, Saratoga Springs, 4/28/13
Mountain Jam @ Hunter Mountain, Hunter, 6/6-9/13
Rhythm On the Ridge @ Maple Ski Ridge, Rotterdam, 6/8-9/13
A Taste of Country Music Festival @ Hunter Mountain, Hunter, 6/13-15/13
Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival @ Croton Point Park, Croton-On-Hudson, 6/15-16/13
Solid Sound Festival @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, 6/21-23/13
Old Songs Festival @ Altamont Fairgrounds, Altamont, 6/28-30/13
Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival @ SPAC, Saratoga Springs, 6/29-30/13
CountryFest @ Schaghticoke Fairgrounds, Schaghticoke, 7/13/13
Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, 7/20/13
The Big Up @ Hemlock Hollow Farm, Clavarack, 8/8-10/13
FreshGrass Festival @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, 9/20-22/13