35th Annual Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival
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The Froemming Family The Froemming Family is a remarkable bluegrass and gospel music family band from Manannah, Minn. Scott and Anna (bass) have been married for 30 years and home school their children Ruth (mandolin and
guitar), Faith (fiddle), Elsie (banjo), and Carl (guitar).
Lots to find in the Marketplace Break with Bovee & Wagner 11:30 a.m. Lunch Break with Duet Contest Winners 5 p.m. Dinner Break with The Drunken Catfish Ramblers Presented by Deering Banjos
Inside the main concert area you will find our marketplace and merchants alley. We’ll have about a dozen food vendors grouped around our marketplace stage and almost 20 merchants selling wares along merchant alley (in the back of the concert area). And while you’re eating all this great food under the shade of the marketplace tent, you can enjoy a little entertainment before and during the breaks in the main-stage music on our Marketplace Stage. An exciting new event at the 2014 festival will be the Marketplace Family Fair on Thursday from 4-6 p.m. This is the new opening event of the festival and will include music, games, prizes and of course food. Many of our food vendors will already be open for business, and you’ll be right there when the main-stage show starts immediately after at 6 p.m. So bring the family and enjoy the first day of the festival in the Marketplace. Thursday NEW! Marketplace Family Fair from 4-6 p.m. 4 p.m. Dinner Break with Northern Lights Bluegrass 5 p.m. Dinner Break with Roe Family Singers Friday 9:30 a.m. Breakfast Break with The Nordic Bees 10:30 a.m. Breakfast
Saturday 9:30 a.m. Breakfast Break with Fiddlers On Fire 10:30 a.m. Pete Seeger Memorial Community Sing-Along 11:30 a.m. Lunch Break with The Drunken Catfish Ramblers 5 p.m. Dinner Break with The Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers Sunday 9 a.m. Breakfast Break with The Halvorsons The list of food vendors in the marketplace is wide ranging. B Concessions will be selling kettle corn. Chapman Concessions is your Mexican stop with steak and chicken fajitas, burritos, tacos, nachos and taco salad, plus breakfast burritos in the morning. Then cool off with a fruit drink, freshsqueezed lemonade, orange treat or strawberry treat from Orange Treets. They also have cheese curds, corn dogs and footlongs. The American Dairy Association will be selling shakes and malts. Sip of Class serves coffee, espresso, lattes, iced drinks and anything coffee, plus gyros, and breakfast sandwiches and muffins. El Rancho Mañana has a stand that sells pop, water, chips and candy. Doc E’s BBQ has mouthwatering, slow-roasted barbeque by the sandwich, plate or pound. And we have some new food vendors this
year. Sweet Williams will be cooking up hamburgers, chicken brats, grilled cheese, soup, German potato salad, garlic mashed potatoes, wraps and salads, plus pancakes, sausage, and biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Wild Earth will be baking hand-crafted pizza in their wood-fired brick oven. And Aston Concessions will have shaved ice, funnel cakes, pretzels and cotton candy. In addition to the good food, there are a string of exhibitors and crafts people around the back of the main-stage concert area. Honnie Ammann has quillows, throws and hair garlands. Earth Elements has handcrafted journals, bags and jewelry. Links of Love has infinity scarves, charms, snuggle blankies and framed photos. Talisman Trading has jewelry. And there is also Carol & Mike’s magnetic jewelry. Jolly Lama has juggling toys for kids of all ages. The Moon Company has clothing, jewelry and instruments. And you can even get a massage from Abigail or Amy. We also have many musical vendors. Offbeat Violins has violins and accessories for sale. Tone Music has musical instruments and supplies. Earthway Farm has many fine musical instruments.
Fussy Baby Guitars has unique cigar box guitars. And of course you’ll want to stop in at our sponsors’ booths, Nechville Banjos and David Vincent Guitars & Mandolins.
Ana & The Beltones Ana and the Bel-Tones are enthusiasts of Cajun music, playing traditional tunes and having a great time doing it. Tom Surowicz of the Star Tribune offered this description of the group: “Despite being so far upriver, in the land of walleye not crawfish, the Twin Cities has always had a lively little Cajun music scene. Now there’s a band in town breaking some new ground — in gender, if not genre — the all-female Ana and the Bel-Tones.
“Favorites at Sea Salt restaurant in the summer, the charming tradminded combo is also a perfect fit for the popular Monday Night Cajun Dance series at the Minneapolis Eagles Club, where two-stepping, waltzing and jitterbugging are the rage.” Members of the group include Anabel Njoes, Shawn Glidden, Shelly Siegel, Vaughn Asselstine, Amelia Biere, Karen Kleinspehn and Liz Mohan.