Full weekend passes for one family to FreshGrass, an extremely family-friendly bluegrass and roots music festival held at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA, Friday-Sunday September 18-20, 2015.

At FreshGrass great music happens all over the MASS MoCA campus, from the galleries to theaters to big outdoor stages, with a lineup that features bluegrass icons, emerging younger artists, and rising stars of indie Americana, plus great food, crafts, workshops, and all sorts of other fun.

The 2015 lineup will be announced in February and March. Past artists include Emmylou Harris, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Bela Fleck, Del McCoury, The Devil Makes Three, Railroad Earth, The Lone Bellow, Trampled by Turtles, Yonder Mountain Stringband, Lake Street Dive, Valerie June, Sam Bush, David Grisman, Jerry Douglas, The Wood Brothers, Sarah Jarosz, The Infamous Stringdusters, and many more.

FreshGrass is rich in both traditional and cutting-edge bluegrass, presented in a wide array of venues tucked appropriately into a 19th-century factory turned 21st-century museum; all set amidst the beautiful backdrop of the Berkshire mountains in northwestern Massachusetts. An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming with bright talent on our four stages, and also in our galleries, brick-lined courtyards, and grassy field.

FreshGrass is becoming more than a festival: join us as we build a new hub for the bluegrass community, honoring the American tradition while also propelling the genre forward. 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 wooly late-night barn dances in the Hunter Center on Friday and Saturday nights.

The lineup is jam-packed with guitar gods and banjo gurus, traditionalists and trailblazers and artists you already know and love along with new FreshGrass discoveries. Taken together, it's an expansive group of performers who both draw on the past and look to the future.

Elsewhere on campus, instrument-specific workshops and industry seminars are offered in conjunction with Berklee College of Music and its American Roots Program, often featuring guest musicians from the festival. And each year five young bands perform for an all-star jury, vying for The FreshGrass Award: over $10,000 in cash prizes awarded for fresh takes on bluegrass music.

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