Music Festival is this Weekend
The 23rd annual Council Mountain Music Festival will feature six bands this weekend that will include quite a variety of styles.
Friday evening starts at 5:30 with the “Dusty Huckleberries” band from Long Valley performing a variety of Blues and Rock. Next up, at 7:00, is “Frayed Knot,” composed of 5 local musicians (one of which is me). We sometimes call our music as “blurgrass,” because we sometimes blur the boundaries between bluegrass and other genres. At 8:30 the “Blue Sky” band from Boise starts their performance of familiar classic rock tunes.
Saturday will follow a similar schedule, with a great Treasure Valley Country band: Buddy DeVore and the Faded Cowboys starting at 5:30. Next up is a talented duo, “Old Time Harvest,” featuring some great fiddling and vocal harmonies. Back again this year, following their enthusiastically-received performance at last year’s festival is “Sheep Bridge Jumpers,” with their high-energy variety of styles that fall somewhere in the broad category of “Americana.”
We will have a few vendors and are still looking for more.
As usual, local churches will hold a music-oriented service on Sunday morning, starting at 10:00 and featuring a very talented musical group from Northwest Nazarene University. A potluck meal will follow the service.
Several younger folks have joined the team organizing the festival, and we are trying a few new things. Last year we hired some high-profile, high-priced bands and the admission price reflected that. This year we feel we have reduced expenses without compromising quality, and we have drastically reduced the admission fee to only $10 (kids 10 and under free).
If you have attended the music festival before, you know that the Veterans Memorial Peace Park is such a pleasant venue with tons of shade trees, and there is such a friendly, family-oriented atmosphere that you will find at no other music festival. So bring your family, your friends and your lawn chairs and enjoy a rare treat with your neighbors in our small, rural town.
The complete schedule, links to the bands and more can be found at our website: CouncilFestival.com.
