Well the music festival season has officially begun!  Locally, the first festival of the season has come and gone with the Graves Mountain Festival of Music.  That event took place last weekend at Graves Mountain Lodge in Syria, Virginia and filled the surrounding hills of Madison County with the sounds of bluegrass music over the course of the three-day event.  Next up on a regional level is one of the biggies of the summer, as the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival prepares to get underway next week down in Manchester, Tennessee with a line-up that boasts over 100 bands.

So as a way to honor the ever-growing number of music festivals popping up around the country and on a personal level, as an excuse to travel down memory lane, I thought I’d share my own account of a little music festival that took place in my own backyard (literally) on a sun and star-filled Saturday back in September of 1997 as I put words to page for the first and only Festival on the Farm. »Read More

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