What makes a great festival? Great bands are essential. A beautiful venue with plenty of space to spread out? That’s a bonus. And let’s not forget about vendors with delicious food and unique items to explore. But perhaps most importantly, a great festival has a spirit of community and a setting so inviting you’d visit even without a festival. Enter Bluegrass Island Music Festival in Manteo, North Carolina—probably the best festival you haven’t heard of, until now.

The Ramble Festival is set to return for its third year, bringing an extraordinary lineup of artists and a vibrant community to Camp Ramblewood just outside Darlington, MD. From October 11th to 13th, 2024, festival-goers can expect an unforgettable experience filled with live music, art, and family-friendly activities. The festival is thrilled to announce the full artist lineup, featuring the exciting addition of Andy Frasco & The U.N.

When their instrumental prowess earned them a vast following on social media, childhood friends turned all-star act Shadowgrass found sudden success. But as a young band, the expectations that came with a large audience proved daunting. “We felt a lot of pressure to make something uniquely us because we had such a big following, and we felt they deserved more than what we had given them so far,” explains the band.

Often resembling a real-life musical snow globe in the California’s high Sierra, the eighth annual WinterWonderGrass-Tahoe, April 5 to 7, brought a hardy bunch of musicians – and resilient attendees – to Palisades Tahoe ski resort, in the midst of the Olympic Village that hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics.