Live Review: Charm City Bluegrass Festival @ Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, 4/26-4/27/19

Posted on 05/03/2019 by Matt Ruppert in Live Review and tagged Americana, Baltimore, Beside the Fire, bluegrass, Charm City Bluegrass Festival, Charm City Junction, Deer Tick, folk, Frank Solivan, Hawktail, Jeff Austin, Jeff Austin Band, Jon Stickley Trio, Maybe April, Melody Walker, music festival, Rob Ickes, Seldom Scene, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Bridge, Town Mountain, Trey Hensley, Wicked Sycamore.

Druid Hill Park in the wind after a storm during Charm City Bluegrass Festival. (Photo by Matt Ruppert)

Waking on Friday, the forecast indicated thunderstorms and heavy winds in the neighborhood of 3 to 7 o’clock. The hours passed slowly, work keeping me busy; periodic texts from my wife, little checks of the app, and nervous glances outside the windows of classrooms marked the passage of the clouds, the speed of the winds.

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Preview: Charm City Bluegrass Festival @ Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, 4/26-4/27/19

Posted on 04/17/2019 by Parklifer in Preview and tagged Americana, Baltimore, bluegrass, Charm City Bluegrass Festival, Deer Tick, folk, Jeff Austin Band, Maryland, music festival, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Bridge.

Charm City Bluegrass Festival (Photo by Brady Cooling Photography)

The award-winning Charm City Bluegrass Festival will take over Baltimore’s Druid Hill Park for a seventh annual celebration of bluegrass, folk, and Americana, headlined by The Bridge, Deer Tick, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Jeff Austin Band, for two days on Friday, April 26, and Saturday, April 27.

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