Videos: Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival 2012
TRUMANSBURG, NY – A collection of videos from this years Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance. Videos include performances by Kevin Kinsella (w/ John Brown’s Body) Locos Por Juana, Donna The Buffalo, Jimkata, Driftwood, The Horse Flies, Keith Frank, plus more.
Instagram Gallery: Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival
Enjoy this gallery of Instagram photos from the fans at the 2012 Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival in Trumansburg, NY. Want your GrassRoots Instagram photos to show up here? Tag them with #GrassRootsNY.
Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival 2012 Lineup
TRUMANSBURG, NY – The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance has announced their 2012 lineup. The festival is entering it’s 22nd year of supporting arts, education & the fight against AIDS. This unique world music festival in upstate NY continues to be a staple in world, Americana, reggae, & roots music. This years lineup features American country music and Grammy Award Winning singer George Jones, GrassRoots hosts Donna the Buffalo, The Campbell Brothers, & Preston Frank & his Zydeco Family Band. We’re excited to Rebirth Brass Band from New Orleans who won a Grammy in 2012 for best Regional Roots Album. Other world music bands featured at this years festival include Khaira…
Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival 2011 Lineup
The Grassroots Festival Lineup has been announced and we’re looking at another great festival with some of the best world music to ever land in upstate NY. Host & headliners of the festival Donna The Buffalo are returning to the Trumansburgh Fairgrounds for the 21st anniversary of the festival. We’re excited for NYC based afro rockers Balkan Beat Box from New York City. The internationally touring band is known for their high energy live performances at festivals such as Bonaroo and Paleo. “Their name, their personal history and the enthusiastic media & audience reactions suggest a link with the so-called Gypsy Rock movement, but their scope is reaching way beyond that: Balkan Beat Box really transcend…
Jimkata | Grassroots Festival | 7.22.2010
This past summer we had a chance to see these Ithaca progressive/electro rock jammers twice. Once at The Great Blue Heron Music Festival and then again at the Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival a few weeks later. Prior to The Blue Heron Festival we had never heard of these guys and were pleasantly surprised by their unique sound. The band is taper friendly and has quite a few great recordings on The Live Music Archive. Listen to “Hot Joint” from Grassroots Festival 2010 Jimkata has been touring since 2007 and are about to release a new EP Ghosts and Killers which will be officially released on September 9, 2010 for FREE on the bands website. Jimkata…
Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival Celebrates 20th Anniversary
TRUMANSBURGH, NY – Grassroots continued it’s run as one of the longest running festivals in America this past weekend. Over the past 4 days the residents of Ithaca and music lovers from across the country descend on the Trumansburgh fairgrounds to celebrate some of the best roots, folk, & world music. Jeb Puryear on GrassRoots: “It’s just like life. There’s who you’re born as and who you grow up to be.”http://ow.ly/2gB4pless than a minute ago via HootSuiteDonna The Buffalo donnathebuffalo Thursday night’s line up was the best in years with Donna The Buffalo, Merle Haggard, Kelly & The Cowboys, Kevin Kinsella, & Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad all playing to large crowds. Kevin Kinsella was back this year with an…
Fingerlakes Grassroots Festival 2010 Lineup
Trumansburgh, NYÂ July 22- July 25th. Our favorite festival of the year has just announced the 2010 festival lineup. My highlight of every summer is time spent with my family and friends at Grassroots festival grounds. We’re looking forward to 2 nights of Donna The Buffalo, Burning Spear, G.P.G.D.S., John Brown’s Body, Keith Frank, & Railroad Earth. Donna the Buffalo Merle Haggard Burning Spear Arrested Development Rusted Root Oliver Mtukudzi & Black Spirits John Brown’s Body Railroad Earth Locos Por Juana Keith Frank & Soileau Zydeco Mountain Heart Campbell Brothers Preston Frank & his Zydeco Family Band Bonsoir, Catin Galumpha Sim Redmond Band The Black Seeds Samite of Uganda Walter Mouton & the Scott Playboys Chiwoniso…
Review: Akron/Family Enlightens Ithaca 09.16.09
ITHACA, NY | This week Ithaca’s Castaways hosted one of the most enlightened bands making waves in the indie and jam circuits. The 150 fans that packed the venue were treated to an hour and a half of schizophrenic, juxtaposed, genre-busting melodies from the Akron/Family. Prior to hitting the stage that night, word was Akron/Family, a trio of guitar, bass, drums and a Carrot-Top chest of fun instruments, was known for their shows constantly building in energy. As the crowd would come to find out, Ithaca’s show wasn’t to be any different. Following a 6 minute spacey, intimate “Meek Warriorâ€, Akron/Family delved right into one of their newest and catchiest tracks “River†from their newest…
Gallery: Fingerlakes Grassroots Festival 2009
Another incredible year at one of America’s longest running music festivals. Check out these photos of Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Donna The Buffalo, Hank Roberts, and the grounds at Trumansburgh in 2009.
Grassroots Festival 2009 Lineup
*** Click HERE for 2009 band schedule *** July 16th to 19th 2009. Our favorite festival of the year – the 19th annual Fingerlakes Grassroots Festival has announced their lineup. Donna the Buffalo has been hosting the festival for 19 years to raise money for the fight against AIDS and other worthy causes, provide regional and national exposure for excellent local musicians, and expose the local and regional music lovers to excellent national and international artists. The festival is presented over a four day period (Thursday-Sunday) on four stages which run ridiculously long hours to accommodate the 60 some bands that play the festival. The band selection reflects the eclectic tastes of our ‘amorphous committee’,…
