Photo Credit: Dave Burbank
The Scene
The GrassRoots Festival, held in late July, takes place in the scenic Finger Lakes region of New York. The non-profit brings in 80+ bands for four days of music and camping.
2013 Artist Lineup
- Donna the Buffalo
- Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell
- Festival au Désert - Caravan for Peace (Feat. Mamadou Kelly, Tartit,Imharhan)
- Rusted Root
- Fatoumata Diawara
- Rubblebucket
- Aurelio Martinez
- John Brown’s Body
- Spam Allstars
- Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band
- Chatham County Line
- The Campbell Brothers
- Sophistafunk
- Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad
- Sim Redmond Band
- Thousands of One
- Driftwood
- The Town Pants
- Pine Leaf Boys
- Suenalo
- The Duhks
- Sihasin
- Elastic Bond
- Flying Clouds
- Galumpha
- Jim Lauderdale
- Preston Frank & his Zydeco Family Band
- Samite of Uganda
- The Horse Flies
- Jesse Lege and Joel Savoy
- Keith Secola & the Wild Band of Indians
- The Gunpoets
- The Believers
- Walter Mouton & the Scott Playboys
- Kevin Kinsella
- Jennie Lowe Stearns & the Fire Choir
- Jones Benally Family Dance Troupe
- Cortadito
- The Mad Tea
- Mac Benford and Up South
- Moontee Sinquah
- Plastic Nebraska
- Mary Lorson and Saint Soubrette
- The Blind Spots
- Bronwen Exter
- Atsiaktonkie
- The Speckers
- Johnny Dowd
- Black Castle
- The Notorious String Busters
- Rockwood Ferry
- Nery Arevalo
- First North American Lunar
- Diwas Gurung
- Bobby Henrie & the Goners
- Mike Brindisi & the New York Rock
- Read-Along Songs
- Randy Dean Whitt
- Answer the Muse
- The Sutras
- Paso Fino
- Toivo
- The Grady Girls
- Kites in Space
- The Double E
- Uniit
- The Sound Awake
- The Dead Sea Squirrels
- Park Doing
- Sunny Weather
- Tzar
- Calico Moon
- Kenny T & Wildfire
- Seth and May
- Tin Teardrops
- Slippery Gap Boys
- Milkweed
- The Fly Rods
- Max Garcia Conover
- Anna Coogan
- Bear Fox
- Alan Rose
- Hiroshima Vacation
- HectorWorks SoundSystem
- DJ Cappel
- Equanimous Minds
- DJ Bill Kelly
- DJ Richard McVay
- Bubba George Stringband
- The GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra