Once again the Apple Acres Family Bluegrass
Festival and Chicken Barbeque will provide all day fun and shuttle
rides to the Cornish Apple Festival. Apple picking, homemade
pies and fudge, AppleBlaster, wagon rides, fresh pressed cider,
Maine Made Crafts, children's activities, and much more ....
Adults $7, kids 16 and under free.
Below is this year's lineup with more to come.
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The
Muddy Marsh Ramblers
A four piece, all acoustic band
from Portland, Maine.
Playing traditional and their own original bluegrass, they also
incorporate old time Celtic reels and jigs into their repitoire.
Utilizing a highly-animated, single-microphone stage show, the
Ramblers' originals have been getting considerable air-play
throughout New England.
The Ramblers play frequently in the Portland area, and are
available for weddings, parties, festivals and other events.
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North Star
Since forming in the spring of 1994, Bill
Smith, Lori Smith, Bobby St. Pierre,
Ted DeMille, and Don Smith have been entertaining festival and
concert audiences with their hard driving style of bluegrass
music. North Star blends the traditional songs of Bill Monroe,
Flatt & Scruggs, Reno & Smiley, Jimmy Martin, and especially The
Stanley Brothers with dynamic original material.
North Star's brand of bluegrass is anchored by a relentless,
driving rhythm section, and augmented by precise and inventive
soloing. Strong, expressive lead vocals are complemented with
heart-felt duo and trio harmonies. The North Star stage show
includes up-tempo instrumentals, brother duets, and stirring
gospel singing. When they gang around a single microphone, North
Star delivers the goods.
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Bag Boys
 The
Bagboys formed when Bobby Bag (acoustic guitar, vocals) and Harvey
Bag (bass, vocals) were still in grade school. Although it would
be another 15 years before they picked up their guitars, the
themes of their songs and the inimitable Bagboys' philosophy
developed during those years.
As a duo, the Bagboys spent many hours playing in Boston's subway
stations, sometimes making as much as $200 a day, and sometimes as
little as pocket change! Harvard Square provided another lucrative
venue in those early years. On one memorable day, a cowboy on
horseback dropped $5000 in silver coins into their guitar case.
The duo soon added mandolin player Tom Sullivan, and performed at
such venues as the Boston Bluegrass Union's Joe Val festival. At
this time, the Boys produced their cassette "Here and Now", which
received airplay on local stations, including WERS, WHRB, WZBC and
WUMB, and attracted favorable reviews from Metronome and The New
England Beat. Later, the Boys joined forces with Paul Burch
(pictured - now recording in Nashville for Dixie Frog) and Larry
Hirschberg, and began their residency at the Plough & Stars, 912
Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. In 1992, the Bagboys placed 2nd
in the WFNX music poll in the Country Music category.
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