Lineup 2025 – 25th Anniversary | Parkfield Bluegrass Festival

Seth Mulder & Midight Run

Seth Mulder & Midnight Run

are traditional bluegrass music at its best! Hailing from the heart of the Smoky Mountains in Gatlinburg, TN, Seth Mulder & Midnight Run present a high-energy show filled with nostalgic entertainment, tight harmonies, and skillful musicianship, all built around a curated set list of original material and lost covers.

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The Bushwick Mountain Boys share over 40 years of professional bluegrass experience, and feature 4 of NYC’s finest musicians. They’ve joined forces to present fine harmonies with spicy solos and a dynamic sense rarely heard in modern music.

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Through twenty years and a couple of thousand shows together in bands such as The Foggy Hogtown Boys and The Lonesome Ace Stringband, John Showman and Chris Coole have developed a deep and instinctual musical bond. Their music lurks in a truly unique space that is somewhere on the outskirts of old-time, bluegrass, and folk.

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The Price Sisters

Music has always had a resounding presence in the lives of twin sisters Leanna Price and Lauren Price Napier. Growing up, their parents sang traditional and old-time country songs and as the sisters grew up hearing duet harmony, they naturally became accustomed to singing together themselves. In the spring of 2016, Leanna and Lauren signed to Rebel Records and released an EP that August, thus pursuing to tour professionally as The Price Sisters.

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With a style all their own, Mountain Highway is a musical family group performing bluegrass, country, and gospel music originally made famous by icons like Bill Monroe, the Carter Family, Ralph Stanley, and a few outliers like the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. Two sisters and a family friend play banjo, guitar, and mandolin as they sing three-part harmony, while the sisters’ dad plays an electric upright bass.

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Tenacious, innovative string musicians/dancers, the Evie Ladin Band throws down an unusually entertaining live show with three-part harmony, instrumental chops and sonic surprises. Grounded in old-time repertoire, writing clever lyrics with mature arrangements, intermingling music and dance, the performance experience is a stand-out. “A truly original sound in new old-time Americana” The polyrhythmic heat of Evie’s renowned clawhammer banjo, percussive dance and inviting vocals have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

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is the current moniker of multi-instrumentalist Kenny Feinstein’s musical brainchild, originally founded in 2005 in Portland. While their lineup has evolved over time, fueled by Feinstein’s masterful song-crafting, fiercely DIY approach, and genre-bending sonic identity, Water Tower have established themselves as a global force to be reckoned with.

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are a high-energy, all woman string band, playing old-time mountain music, originals, & bluegrass. These gals have foot-stomping, down home, back porch rhythm, creating and sharing joy wherever they go!! The Honeysuckle Possums have played all over California and Oregon and continue to gain praise for their beautiful harmonies, incredible instrumentation, and spirited Appalachian Flat Foot dancing.

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(BBOAW) came together for the first time in May of 2023 when they filled in, last-minute, on the main stage at the Parkfield Bluegrass Festival. It was clear at that very first gig that something magical had been born. As far as they know, BBOAW is the only bluegrass band with a lead singer on the pedal harp.
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SLO County Stumblers

The SLO County Stumblers are an energetic American string band based in California’s Central Coast. The band features fiddler Casy Meikle, guitarist David Baine, banjo player Daniel Bohlman, and banjo builder Jerry James on bass. The band formed in 2018 when Meikle returned to California after several years in Middle Tennessee where he became steeped in the region’s musical traditions…
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is a string band in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Formed in 2019, the group plays a unique blend of bluegrass, old-time, and original progressive acoustic music. Listeners can expect tight, soaring harmonies, instrumental virtuosity, and dynamic song craft in every set.

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Red Dog Ash

is an award-winning bluegrass band from California’s Central Valley. Now in its twelfth year, the band plays with an easy familiarity, confidence, and a sound all its own. They take their name from red dog, the byproduct of uncontrolled coal waste fires—a metaphor for their hard-driving tunes, authentic bluegrass vocals, and high-lonesome harmonies.
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“[Whole Hog embellishes] traditional bluegrass by adding their own twists…a virtuoso quartet providing the soundtrack for hog heaven.” Ojai Valley News

“Y’all are sounding great!” Greg Blake of Special Consensus

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Every once in a while music comes along that you just know instantly that you are going to like. Amber’s melodies are more than complimented by thoughtful, interesting and honest lyrics, along with fine, understated musicianship that proves the old adage that “less is more”. The result is a set of superbly crafted, well-rounded, addictive songs that stay with you long after the last notes have ended, and make you hungry for more.” –Duncan Warwick, Country Music People Magazine, UK

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