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RockyGrass Festival Breaks Free from Tradition While Staying True to its Roots

By Margaret Hair
Boulder Weekly | July 28, 2008
Compared to its relative Telluride Bluegrass Festival, RockyGrass is a slightly smaller, more traditional affair. Traditional, that is, in a vague sense. In its 36th year, RockyGrass has grown to a three-day festival that spans more than a century of American roots music, from the banjo and mandolin songs with which we're most familiar to 21st century acoustic songwriting.
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Tags: music festivals, Colorado, bluegrass, RockyGrass, Telluride Bluegrass Festival

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