DelFest returns after two-year COVID absence
Thursday, December 16, 2021 – DelFest, the genre-spanning festival brainchild of McCoury Music and High Sierra Music, is back this May after a two-year COVID-induced absence.
The festival will be held in Cumberland, Md. from May. 26-29.
Festival hosts The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin' McCourys, are joined by Railroad Earth, Bela Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart, Sam Bush, Leftover Salmon, Watchhouse, California Honeydrops, Sierra Hull, Anders Osborne & Jackie Green, Cabinet, and The Lil Smokies.
Other artists include Sister Sadie, Della Mae, Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, The Hot Club of Cowtown, the Seldom Scene, The Lonesome River Bad and Steve Poltz.
More artists will be added to the line up.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. eastern including four-day passes at a special holiday price of $230.50.
More news for Del McCoury
- 02/18/22: McCoury, Stringdusters, Shovel & Rope are out today
- 02/17/22: Childers, Keen, Jerry Douglas Band join DelFest
- 03/31/21: DelFest returns in September
- 11/21/19: DelFest names Old Crow, Punch Brothers as lead performers
- 05/25/18: McCourys, Ell dominate releases
- 01/16/15: Old Crow, Leftover Salmon, TBT play Delfest
- 08/05/14: IBMA celebrates McCoury's 75th
- 06/17/14: Rob McCoury announces first solo disc
CD reviews for Del McCoury
Since the mid-nineties, there has not been a more substantial bluegrass outfit than The Del McCoury Band. There has likely not been a more recognized set of musicians since the International Bluegrass Music Awards started to be handed out in 1990. McCoury himself was the organization's first Male Vocalist of the Year, an award he was now received five times; further, each current member of the group, from bassist Alan Bartrum and banjoist Rob McCoury (one each) to fiddler Jason Carter (five ...
For two years we've been hearing of this recording, a project where original lyrics from Woody Guthrie were to be reinvented as bluegrass songs by the legendary Del McCoury. Like previous sets from Billy Bragg & Wilco (3 volumes of "Mermaid Avenue" released between 1998-2012), Jay Farrar, et al ("New Multitudes," 2012) and The Klezmatics (a pair of 2006 releases), lyrics stored within the Woody Guthrie Archives were turned over to McCoury to be repurposed. ...
Perennial IBMA Entertainer of the Year winner Del McCoury has had an impressive run over the last decade or so, and his efforts are a large factor in the ever-widening popularity of bluegrass music. McCoury's growth came at a time when he was recording on Rounder, and this collection on Rounder's Heritage series collects tracks from all of the albums he issued during that period.
Though McCoury released an album with Rounder in 1972, this disc skips over that for the more cohesive batch of tunes ...
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