11/21/2023 0 Comments Mass moca bluegrass festival![]() WORLD PREMIERES by Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Sky Macklay, Theo Baer, Nathan Bales, Erich Barganier, Brandon Becker, Melika Fitzhugh, Brian Krock, Lila Meretzky, Christian Quiñones, and more Highlights of LOUD Weekend on July 30 and 31 include: The festival returns this year, and will conclude the 19th annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a professional development program led by today’s pioneers of experimental music for young composers and performers selected from an international applicant pool, which runs from July 12-29, 2021.įull schedule to announced. ![]() Stay tuned to for the latest news-the music never stops at FreshGrass!įollow FreshGrass on facebook for updates and more.LOUD Weekend launched in 2019 as an expansion of Bang on a Can’s long-running Bang on a Can Marathon, multiplying that inclusive and ambitious programming from one day, to multiple days. With prizes totaling $25,000, grand prize winners receive a performance spot at next year’s festival, recording sessions at Compass Records, and hand-crafted instruments from festival sponsors. Open to all festival-goers, the contest showcases the future of bluegrass and roots music when the bands play original and traditional tunes. Finalists in the band, duo, banjo, and fiddle categories perform for a panel of industry professionals on Saturday and Sunday of the festival, with winners announced on Sunday afternoon. ![]() The FreshGrass Award celebrates new talent, with cast prizes to the contest winners. We like to think of it as “great music uprooted.” Taken together, it’s an expansive group of performers who both draw on the past and look to the future. The lineup is jam-packed with guitar gods and banjo gurus, traditionalists and trailblazers-artists you already know and love interspersed with FreshGrass discoveries. Music starts early in the museum courtyards, moves to our spacious (and grassy!) urban concert meadow, and then continues until past your bedtime with wild and woolly late-night barn dances in the Hunter Center on Friday and Saturday nights. Click here for our festival map of the downtown area and a parking & shuttle map. Shuttle picks up on Marshall Street, directly in front of MASS MoCA, and makes a loop to all stops.ĭowntown North Adams is a five-minute walk from the FreshGrass stages at MASS MoCA, and offers a variety of locally-owned dining options, specialty retail stores, and lively pubs. Reserve RV camping.īag and Instrument drop-off in Courtyard AįreshGround and Parking Lot Shuttle Schedule Shuttle buses run to the festival every 20-30 minutes. Campsites are available at Camp Aggie.Ĭamp Aggie for RV camping is located 4 miles down the road from the festival. A shuttle bus runs continuously to the festival. SOLD OUT: FreshGround is a tent-camping field within easy walking distance (.7 miles 12 minutes) of the festival, convenient to downtown merchants, bars, and restaurants. $29 SUNDAY CHILD 7 to 16 | $100 SUNDAY FRESHPASS SOLD OUT $60 SUNDAY PASS | $65 DAY OF SUNDAY | $50 SUNDAY STUDENT $29 SATURDAY CHILD 7 to 16 | SATURDAY FRESHPASS SOLD OUT $60 SATURDAY PASS | $65 DAY OF SATURDAY | $50 SATURDAY STUDENT ![]() $19 FRIDAY CHILD 7 to 16 | $100 FRIDAY SOLD OUT $39 FRIDAY PASS | $44 DAY OF FRIDAY | $29 FRIDAY STUDENT $300 FRESHPASS SOLD OUT | Free for children 6 and under An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming with bright talent on four stages, and also in our galleries, brick-lined courtyards, and grassy field, produced in partnership by MASS MoCA, the FreshGrass Foundation, and No Depression.
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