The Minnesota Bluegrass August Festival is held annually and features top national touring acts as well as the best bands from the Upper Midwest region in four days and nights of music on multiple stages, plus workshops, showcases, and much, much more!  

There is a Pre-Festival Jam Camp for ages 12 and up starting on Tuesday, and then the Festival starts in earnest on Thursday evening!

It's a summer's worth of music and family fun in one week! Bluegrass, Old-Time Stringband, and related forms of acoustic and Americana music are combined to suit a wide range of interests.  

Bring your own instrument and join in a jam or workshop, sign up the kids for the talent show (kids under 18 are FREE!), visit the food trucks and craft booths, or plant your chair in the natural amphitheater and listen to nearly 30 hours of great music!

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Main Stage Schedule:

MC: Margaret Brandes & Pam K.
5:00pm Jam Camp Recitals
6:00pm Buffalo Galaxy
7:00pm The Purple Hulls
8:00pm The Baker Family
9:00pm The Waddington Brothers
10:00pm The High 48s

Marketplace Stage Schedule:

4:00pm Rusty Playground

Friday, August 9, 2024

Main Stage Schedule:

MC: Nate Hess
12:00pm The Baker Family
1:00pm The Purple Hulls
2:00pm St. Paul Mudsteppers
3:00pm Dave Adkins & Mountain Soul
4:00pm Gregory-Harris-DeWhitt
5:00pm Dinner Break
MC: Pam Kolupailo & Margaret B.
5:45pm Family Stage Talent Winner
6:00pm The Waddington Brothers
7:00pm Earl White Stringband
8:00pm The Purple Hulls
9:00pm Amanda Cook Band
10:00pm Dave Adkins & Mountain Soul

Underground Stage Schedule:

6:00pm No Rest for the Pickers
7:00pm The Lake Monsters
8:00pm Mother Banjo Band
9:00pm Blake Johnson
10:00pm The Gated Community

Showcase/Dance Stage:

10:00am Yoga with Lucy
12:00pm Old-Time Banjo Showcase featuring Mark Olitsky, Mark Schatz & Clawhammer Mike
1:00pm Songwriting Secrets & Styles Hosted by Brent Fuqua, with Dave Adkins, Sumanth Gopinath & Boom Bilotta-Burke
2:00pm Making a Family Band Work with The Waddington Brothers
3:00pm Bluegrass Fiddle Showcase with George Mason & Tom Schaefer
4:00pm Black Fiddle History with Earl White
7:30–9:30pm Square Dance with Gregory-Harris-DeWhitt, called by Ann Carter. All are welcome to dance!

Marketplace Stage Schedule:

11:00am Vicki Lynn & Friends
5:00pm Clay Hess & Friends

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Main Stage Schedule:

MC: Tony Stachnik
12:00pm Ron Block & The All-Stars
1:00pm Amanda Cook Band
2:00pm Mark Kreitzer Band
3:00pm Dave Peterson & 1946
4:00pm Earl White Stringband
5:00pm Dinner Break
MC: Kim Monson
5:45pm Family Stage Talent Winner
6:00pm Gregory-Harris-DeWhitt
7:00pm Amanda Cook Band
8:00pm Dave Peterson & 1946
9:00pm Ron Block & The All-Stars
10:00pm Dave Adkins & Mountain Soul

Underground Stage Schedule:

6:00pm The Rosie Daze Band
7:00pm Mother Banjo Band
8:00pm Mark Kreitzer Band
8:55pm Roe Family Singers
9:50pm The Lake Monsters
10:45pm The Gated Community

Showcase/Dance Stage:

10:00am Yoga with Lucy
11:00am Swing Up Your Bluegrass with the Purple Hulls
12:00pm Country Blues Showcase with the St. Paul Mudsteppers
1:00pm Getting Your Start as a Bluegrass Band with No Rest for the Pickers
2:00pm Line Dancing with Sarah King
3:00pm Old-Time Jam with the Upper Midwest Folk Fiddlers
4:00pm Guitar Showcase with Dave Adkins, Jon Garon, Clay Hess, Mark Kreitzer & Brady Wallen
7:00-9:00pm Square Dance with the Earl White Stringband, called by Sarah York. All are welcome to dance!

Marketplace Stage Schedule:

11:00am The Rosie Daze Band
5:00pm Last Pick'd String Band

Sunday, August 11, 2024

Main Stage Schedule:

MC: Dale Gruber
10:00am Roe Family Singers
11:00am Dave Peterson & 1946
12:00pm Ron Block & The All-Stars

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Date: August 8 - 11, 2024

Location: El Rancho Manana, 27302 Ranch Road, Richmond, MN 56368

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