34th Annual Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival
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Sloughgrass Sloughgrass is from Birchdale, Minn., a small unincorporated town halfway between International Falls and Baudette. They have been performing throughout Minnesota and beyond at a wide variety of events since 2003. The band’s music is a blend of bluegrass, gospel, country, old-time, Scandinavian and folk music. The group is a family affair. Grandma Audrey Nelson sets the rhythm on the upright bass and is joined by her two daughters, two sons-in-law and three of her grandchildren (and sometimes a cousin or some friends). All of the group members take turns on the vocals while playing a variety of acoustic instruments. Sloughgrass has been featured in numerous celebrations, ranging from Thresher Shows, to Bluegrass Festivals and as far away as the Brown’s Ole
Opry in North Carolina, and the Blomster Festival in Roskilde, Denmark (the group’s spokesperson Søren emigrated from Denmark in 1989 and married Audrey’s youngest daughter Judith). They have also performed on the popular AM 1500 radio program Garage Logic and were the featured artist on www. Ampers.org radio in March 2011. Sloughgrass was honored to appear in the PBS series “Prairie Musicians,” which was filmed at the Fargo Prairie Public PBS studio, and aired during the summer of 2012. The show is available online at www.Youtube.com/ PrairiePublicBcast. Their website address is www. sloughgrass.com. The band has three CDs to their credit: “Down The Road” (2005); “Are we There Yet?” (2007) ; and “Not Quite There” (2011). Sloughgrass band members
are: Audrey Nelson, upright bass; Judith Nelson, fiddle, vocals, rhythm guitar; Søren Olesen, mandolin, rhythm guitar, vocals; Sofia
Olesen, fiddle, mandolin; Holger Olesen, resonator dobro guitar, saxophone, vocals; Christine Hultman, banjo, vocals; Dave Hult-
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man, rhythm guitar, vocals; and Gary Hultman, resonator guitar, banjo, lead/ rhythm-guitar, mandolin (and occasionally Maria
Lewis, upright bass, vocals. Their website address is www.sloughgrass.com.