2015 TBF: which NEW acts would you like to see?

[Hot Sugar]

so cool on the dead winter carpenters link/tip. TY
they are on tour with greensky bluegrass this month
a perfect match up!!

Of course! I love sharing good music! Especially when the musicians making it are quality human beings as well as great artists.

[Australian fan]

Ha, I just saw The Stones play in Australia, they were awesome. Ok, my fantasy is Alison Krauss and Union Station, she has voice of an angel and has never toured Australia. I would love to see Iris dement too

[completejohn]

I've always hoped that PB would bring in the Band of Heathens to the fest, but that ain't gonna happen.  As reported in the latest Rolling Stone, BOH has been in the studio as the backup band for Kid Rock!  I guess this is gonna help BOH as much as Steve Martin helped Steep Canyon, but I bet they're not too happy with Kid Rock's right wing political stands!

[Matt]

Robert Earl Keen. He's releasing a bluegrass album in February. Would make a great Thursday night closer

Happy Prisoner was produced by Lloyd Maines, who was also at the helm of the Texas country icon's 2011 LP, Ready for Confetti. Maines' daughter Natalie (of Dixie Chicks fame) lends her vocals to a track, as do Lyle Lovett and Peter Rowan. Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins joins on fiddle and Danny Barnes is on banjo, along with several other guest musicians and the singer's road band. For Keen, this project has been a long time coming.

“I went in with a great deal of apprehension from always loving bluegrass but never being a true bluegrass player,” he tells the Amarillo Globe-News of starting the album late last year. “My desire, my passion sort of overrode my fear.”

This would be awesome!

[Coyo1]

QUOTE: "And those who know me have heard me go on and on about Montana's best band, The Lil Smokies! They'll be heading down to Colorado this January playing venues like Smiggity's in Steamboat, Cervantes Other Side in Denver, The Eldo in Crested Butte, and Fly Me To The Moon Saloon in Telluride. You should absolutely check them out! Their dobro player could hang with Andy Hall and Jerry Douglas no problem. Plus, they were nominated for an IBMA Momentum Award this year!"

Got my tix to see them at Cervantes Other Side!  Thanks Hot Sugar for the heads up since they never make it to Colorado.  Been waiting and waiting...finally

[Auntie Hope]

Ketch & Critter 

[Australian fan]

Wow, the Robert Earl Keen collaboration rounds fantastic. I get so inspired reading the messages, there are so many fantastic performers to experience. Thank you

[fivetornadoes]

Love these east coast Canadian acts. Love Celtic

The Stanfields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY00Zi1EdVs&list=UUBWlbBGDOysj01jZMamUKJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4hPEx4sn4&list=UUBWlbBGDOysj01jZMamUKJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYCx_l7KZs

Alan Doyle:(lead singer from Great Big Sea)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBa7njXQCUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwHeqR7H0cw&list=UUfItDzX4T6E_MnG5XaUzZIw

[psuruns10]

Cabinet

 Listening to: Cabinet

[colokathy]

Eilen Jewell
Tift Merritt

 Listening to: Anders Osborne

[Furnal]

Sturgill Simpson would fit right in, I would think.

[lohlah1]

How about a return of the Carolina Chocolate Drops - they were on fire at Fresh Grass this past September.  Or perhaps a gathering of the New Basement Tapes participants.

[marv]

Fleet Foxes
Wood Brothers
Michael Kiwanuka

^ these are my "not-really-bluegrass" lineup picks. 

[psuruns10]

Larry keel
And hope leftover is still there

[Hill_S]

I've got a suggestion for the kids tent, as I'm bringing the family this time around and it would go a long ways in my house if it happened. The Okee Dokee Brothers are a kids bluegrass band, raised in Colorado, have one Grammy to their credit and have been nominated for a second. Check em out!

http://www.okeedokee.org

The album "Can you Canoe?" is responsible for the canoe now hanging off the ceiling in my garage!

 Listening to: Three Bells - Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas, Rob Ickes