OATS Festival 2012 Performers
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(Friday & Saturday Main Stage) Your Favorite band 4 years running on the OATS festival band survey so we brought them back by your overwhelming request! |
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(Saturday Main Stage) There is a reason this band has won so many awards and put so many songs on the charts - If you have seen them live you already know why - If you havent, what are you waiting for? They are back by yur request on the survey! |
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Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out (Friday Main Stage) - One of Bluegrass's most award winning band - a 7 time winner of IBMA vocal group of the year |
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Valerie Smith And Liberty Pike (Friday & Saturday Main Stage) Always a crowd favorite and one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Val will also help teach the children's academy. |
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(Saturday Main Stage) One of todays hottest bands with several chart topping albums to their credit.
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(Thursday and Friday Main Stage) This band is on the verge of being the next big thing in bluegrass. Look for their syndicated TV show in early 2012! |
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(Saturday Main Stage) Their 2011 album "The Life We Live" made a lot of the 2011 top 10 album lists and several of their songs were featured in the FX television series "Justified". This band is the real deal straight from the Kentucky porch where they learned to pick.
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(Saturday Main stage - Sunday Tent Stage) Carolyn has one of the best femal voices in bluegrass today and the band's rock solid harmony and tight picking on their well crafted original songs make this up and coming band a must see. |
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(Thursday, Friday, Saturday Main Stage & Sunday Tent Stage) The OATS host band - SGW has played all 12 of the previous festivals. |
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(Friday Main Stage) One of the top bands the Garden state of New Jersey has to offer. With their hard drivin banjo sound this is one traffic jam you'll enjoy being stuck in. |
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(Thursday Main Stage) - Simple the best regional bluegrass band in the tri-state area. This band puts on a polished show shinier than the tail fins on a '52 cadallac |
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(Saturday Roots and Branches Stage) - One of the best acoustic bands to ever come out of the Philadelphia area. You put them in a tie for first place of the Roots and Branches stage bands on the OATS survey in 2011 so we brought them back for you! |
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(Saturday Roots and Branches Stage) Thundergrass - This band was quite the buzz around the festival after their performance so we bring them back for '12 as a 4 piece band now including Bass which makes a great band even better! |
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(Saturday Roots and Branches Stage) - This Scranton Pennsylvania band burns up the stage with the energy of a ragin' coal mine fire. Come out and feel their heat! |
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(Friday Roots And Branches Stage) Corn comes in many forms liquid and solid and it is all good This central PA band celebrates that diversity on stage with the full range of bluegrass from traditional to progressive with a little corn humor to put the husk on the cob. |
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(Friday Roots and Branches Stage) This central PA band plays the range of bluegrass from traditional to cutting edge contemporary as its members bring a diversity to the band as varied as their earlier musical experiences in rock, reggae, blues, folk and country |
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Marc Silver and the Stonethrowers (Friday Roots And Branches Stage) Marc writes original songs with the skill of a fine craftsman touching your emotions and opening your mind. The Stonethrowers deliver that song to you with surgical precision adding some extra flavor with pedal steel guitar. |
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(Sunday Tent Stage) From the Moonlight forest in Berks county MCR returns with their mix of traditional and original material done in the spirit of the first generation of bluegrass gathered around a single mic |
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Greenwood Valley Boys (Sunday Tent Stage) Benton's finest bluegrass band - The hometown boys return! |
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(Thursday Picnic Stage & Thursday Main Stage) Bluegrass with a texas swing flair |
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(Thursday Picnic Stage & Friday Main Stage) Boulevard Express was formed in 2009 by musicians from the Holmesburg Bluegrass Jam in Philadelphia. The band is known for the traditional bluegrass music they play, and their three-part harmonies are strong and sweet |
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Folk Spirits (Saturday Roots and Branches Stage) This band delivers it's grass with a folksy flavor highlighted by soaring harmony |
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Rev. Al Lumpkin and Friends - Songs of the Spirit (Sunday Tent Stage) A sunday morning tradition of inspiration |
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Children's Academy (Sunday Tent Stage) The Academy shows off what they have learned - we are so glad that we can help the next generation of bluegrass. |
