Micah John News Today

Passim has announced the lineup for the 12th annual Down Home Up Here Festival on Patriot’s Day Weekend, April 13 to 15. The annual festival, dedicated to bluegrass and old-time music, will showcase more than a dozen acts from greater Boston and around the country, including Johanna Wacker from New York, Hello Stranger from California, and Hound & Handler from Boston.

I arrive in West Virginia on a Monday night, the first of August, after driving through …