What is BirdFest & Bluegrass? BirdFest and Bluegrass is the main event every year that the Friends & the City of Ridgefield put on to bring awareness to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, and all that it has to offer. We celebrate the Sandhill Crane returning to the Refuge, a huge
Fern Hill approaches its bluegrass music, in the style of the classic bands of the 1950's. This special attention to detail results in an instantly identifiable rhythmic sound that both devotees and newcomers to the music will love. Fern Hill has a lot of fun playing this music and we
We have open acoustic music jam sessions every 1st Sat. of the month, from 1pm to 3:30, in Vernonia, focusing on bluegrass standards, old timey tunes, folk, with perhaps some others genres snuck in, like blues, Irish or early 20th century tunes. (We are not focusing on country music, or
Thunder Ridge is a straight-ahead bluegrass band from Portland, OR. The traditional five-piece band is made up of banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass and fiddle. They will steal your heart with hard driving vocal harmonies and instrumentals. Allow them to take you down a path of yesteryear with a good old
Syco Billy’s String Band is a bluegrass and americana ensemble that tightly wraps the eclectic tastes of the members refined by decades of musical experience around a solid bluegrass core layered with honeyed strings and rich harmonies.
Ash Creek explores the frontiers between bluegrass, folk, and traditional country music. They work hard to find songs that respect those traditions, but aren’t the same ol’ stuff. They like a good story, and a tune that veers where you don’t expect it, without giving you a case of whiplash. And
