Arts & Entertainment
Photos: BACCA's Bluegrass Festival Delights Local Music Fans
Local and national musical acts offer up a day of 'down home' singing and picking at Babylon Town's Tanner Park.
Performers came from all over the country for 's at , but local acts were the highlights of this annual event much to the delight of the music fans from all around , including Lindenhurst.
The festival - which took place on , several days before the and - featured a fun-filled day of music, workshops and family entertainment. The energetic sets, "jamming," and general musical camaraderie of the participants – both on stage and in the audience – were on display this year, as in years past.
A group of players also celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of Bill Monroe with a lovely tribute set to one of the fathers of bluegrass music.
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Musicians and acts - including Vincent Cross, Maria Fairchild, Mike Burns, Free Grass Union, Buddy Merriam and Back Roads (the festival organizer), Foggy Mountain Hilton and closing act The Special Consensus - gave the crowd a day to remember, and sent a still-smiling group of over a thousand music fans home already looking forward to next year's festival put on by the .
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