Meadowgrass Music Festival Opens This Weekend

Head on over to teh La Foret Conference & Retreat Center for the Memorial Day Weekend MeadowGrass Music Festival.  The weekend is full of music and activities for the entire family.  Listen to music, enjoy the outdoors and even take a dip in the swimming pool.  Multiple musicians are headlining the festival with performances that you do not want to miss. 

The sun. The vistas. The beer. And of course, the music.

Since 2008, the MeadowGrass Music Festival has virtually defined the early days of summer for Pikes Peak music lovers — and increasingly every year, those far beyond the region.

“The first MeadowGrass was just 100 to 150 people a day,” says Steve Harris, event organizer and voice of KRCC’s Grass Roots Revival. “The next year was 400 to 600. Last year was over a 1,000 each day. All indications look like it will be bigger than ever this year.”

More than 20 bands are featured this year. Headliners include national acts — Son Volt, Elizabeth Cook, the Barr Brothers, Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks, and others — as well as bands that have made their bones in the area — Grass It Up, The Flumps, Mango Fan Django, Edith Makes a Paperchain and others.

“Some people come to me and say, ‘I don’t like bluegrass,’” Harris says. “But we’ve tried very hard to make it clear that it’s a diverse offering, all loosely grouped under Americana.
“We’ve been very successful at bringing acts that you may not heard up of but are on the cutting edge and up-and-coming.”

And in an interesting riff on the usual suspects, the Chamber Singers of the Colorado Springs Chorale will perform composer Carol Barnett’s “A World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass” with Jake Schepps & the Expedition Quartet.

For more information about the festival and the performers head to Coloradosprings.com.