Rabbit Hash hosting Browngrass Festival
1:33 pm, Jun 30, 2011 | Written by ssalmons | 0Comments |
By Stephanie Salmons +ICI- ssalmons@nky.com
RABBIT HASH +IBM- Rabbit Hash is preparing for another summer music event.
The second annual Browngrass Festival will be held in the river town
from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, July 16.
From left, Raiford Faircloth, Sadie Faircloth, Melissa English, Greg
Schramm, David Rhodes Brown, Mark Utley, Bob Donisi, Amber Nash,
Jordan Neff and Bob Lese perform at last year's Browngrass Festival
held at Newport's Southgate House. This year, the festival will be
held from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, July 16, in Rabbit Hash. Thanks to
Tom Collins Photography
According to festival founder David Rhodes Brown, this is the second
year for the event.
Last year, the concert was held at Newport+IBk-s Southgate House as a CD
release party for Brown+IBk-s debut solo album +IBw-Browngrass and
Wildflowers+IB0- and a benefit for WNKU. Changing the venue allows for
more acts +IBM- and an all-day event, he said.
Moving the festival to Rabbit Hash also opens it up for a more +IBw-family
friendly event,+IB0- said festival organizer (and Brown+IBk-s fiance) Bobbi
Kayser. The couple own the town+IBk-s mayor, border collie Lucy Lou, who
will be in attendance, Kayser said.
Brown said the idea for the WNKU fundraiser came after he went to a
music festival in St. Louis where money raised went to a local
public-supported radio station there.
There will be 20 bands on two stages +IBM- 10 performers in the Rabbit
Hash General Store and 10 on an outside stage, Brown said.
+IBw-We had a hard time paring it down to 20 people,+IB0- he said. +IBw-(The acts)
we got were top-notch performers.+IB0-
In addition to local performers, acts come from places like Norfolk,
Va., Asheville, N.C., Fort Myers, Fla., and Nashville.
Food and craft vendors will also be on hand and the town+IBk-s Elk Creek
Vineyards store will also be opened that day, Kayser said.
There is a suggested donation of $10 for the festival. All proceeds
will benefit WNKU.
Kayser said she hopes attendance is around 2,000 and would like to
raise at least $10,000.
+IBw-It+IBk-s a great way to have a great day,+IB0- Brown said.
Event parking is limited. Kayser encourages attendees to carpool if
they can. There will be designated parking areas and a shuttle
available.
Festival line-up includes: Phillip Roebuck, Norfolk, Va.; The Shivers,
Asheville, N.C.; Mack West, Union; The Tillers, Cincinnati; Renee
Wahl, Lebanon, Tenn.; The Browngrass Band, Rabbit Hash; Magnolia
Mountain, Cincinnati; Greg Tex Schramm and the Radio King Cowboys,
Cincinnati; Shadwick Wilde and the Quiet Hollers, Louisville; Be
Reasonable, Cincinnati; Hickory Robot, Cincinnati; Don Clare and Paul
Bromwell, Rabbit Hash; Shiny and the Spoon, Cincinnati; Roy Schneider,
Fort Myers, Fla.; The Danberrys, Nashville; Them Bones, Cincinnati;
Blue Cut, Bloomington, Ind.; Taylor Pie, Liberty, Tenn.; and Lydia
Loveless, Columbus
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