THE 11TH ANNUAL BACK PORCH FESTIVAL MARCH 7-9
Signature Sounds Presents and The Parlor Room Collective are pleased to announce this year's schedule for the Back Porch Festival. Venues and show times can be found at www.backporchfest.com/schedule. The Back Porch Festival's successful expanded format debuted in 2023, bringing more than sixty bands to 10+ diverse venues in downtown Northampton, MA. Back Porch is the only multi-day festival to take place this winter in New England.
The Back Porch Festival kicks off with an all-star tribute to Neil Young on Friday, March 7 at the Academy Of Music. Past songwriter nights have paid tribute to legends like Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Dolly Parton, and John Prine. Guest artists will be announced soon.
March 8th is The Back Porch Bluegrass Spectacular with The Travelin' McCourys, an acclaimed quintet taking traditional bluegrass and carving innovative pathways into 21st century music, The Sam Grisman Project paying tribute to the musical legacy of Sam's father David Grisman & Jerry Garcia, and East Grass Nash , about who Jerry Douglas said, "Out of the Wilds of East Nashville came this band of ringers, each of them playing in national high profile Bluegrass bands.The sound they make when they play together rivals that of any of their main gigs. Who knows, but I heard them as a finely tuned machine that could survive on its own. The National high profilers better hang on tight! East Nash Grass is on the move.”
March 9th brings Lucinda Williams to The Academy of Music deemed “… an American treasure, one of our most reliably gifted and original singer-songwriters.” by Relix Magazine. Fantastic Cat opens the show.
BACK PORCH FESTIVAL BY DAY
https://www.backporchfest.com/schedule
FRIDAY:
All-Star Tribute to Neil Young at The Academy of Music
Featuring:
Sandy Bailey
Chatham Rabbits
Cloudbelly
Evelyn Harris
Billy Keane
Robin Lane
Suitcase Junket
Thrasher Wheat
Winterpills
Deep River Ramblers
and very special guests
Back Porch Ramble Featuring:
CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band
GA 20
Chatham Rabbits
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole
Indé
Huntertones
Billy Keane & Waking Dream
Old Hat String Band
Greg Hall
Jake Swamp & The Pine
Kimaya Diggs
Thrasher Wheat
Expandable Brass Band
Mike Flood
Wallace Field
Some Stuntmen
Matt Hebert and the Lonesome Brothers
Ruth Garbus Trio
Stella Kola
Cowperson
The Classicals
Ruby Lou
Jake McKelvie and his New Old Band
SATURDAY:
The Back Porch Bluegrass Spectacular at The Academy of Music: The Travelin' McCourys, Sam Grisman Project, East Nash Grass
Back Porch Ramble Featuring:
Sam Grisman Project
East Nash Grass
James Hunter Six
Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms
New Dangerfield
Big Sandy & His Fly-rite Boys
Caitlin Canty
Kevin Gordon Trio
Spanglish Fly
Ali McGuirk
Cloudbelly
Love Crumbs
Christa Joy & The Honeybees
Deep River Ramblers
Cold Chocolate
Jenna Nicholls
Splendid Torch
Jake Klar
Fiddle Orchestra Of Western MA.
Signature Dish
Karlo Rueby
Norma Dream
Splendid Torch
Jeff Coyne
Sapien Joyride
Gold Setter
Ciarra Fragale
Lisa Bastoni
Mind Left Body
SUNDAY:
Lucinda Williams w. Fantastic Cat at The Academy of Music (SOLD OUT)
WRSI's Back Porch Radio show will broadcast live from The Iron Horse from 10am-12noon
Back Porch Ramble Featuring:
Tony Trischka Earl Jam
ChChunk
Bobby Rush
Chris Smither
Robbie Fulks
Fantastic Cat
Unamericana Gallery
Murphy Beds
Johnny Memphis Band
StompBox Trio
The Wildmans
Max Wareham
The Back Porch Festival was founded in 2014 as a one day event at the Academy Of Music Theater in Northampton. It has since grown to a multi-venue event featuring the best in American roots music. Past Back Porch festival performers have included Richard Thompson, Roseanne Cash, Rickie Lee Jones, Marty Stuart, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Aoife O'Donovan, Watchhouse, Molly Tuttle, Anais Mitchell, Josh Ritter, Deer Tick, Los Lobos, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Del McCoury & David Grisman, Sarah Jarosz, The Dustbowl Revival, Tim O'Brien, Steep Canyon Rangers, and many more. Every year, the festival includes a live broadcast of the Back Porch radio show before a live audience.Back Porch Radio host Jim Olsen has been on the airwaves of WRSI since 1984, serving as the station's program and music director from 1985-1996. When the station moved to Northampton, MA in 1996 and became 93.9 The River, the Back Porch came with it. The program's eclectic mix of new and classic country, bluegrass, folk, blues and all forms of American roots music celebrates 30 years next year.
The Back Porch Festival is co-presented with the Northampton Arts Council as part of their long-running Four Sundays series.
Media contact: Flora Reed, 413-341-3317, flora@signaturesounds.com
