By the time Centeroo opened on Thursday afternoon at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, June 15th, the festivities, and live music had been happening in the campground for nearly two days. Thursday is the traditional soft opening of the annual Bonnaroo music festival, with the two giant main stages remaining dark for one more day. But the four other main stages and some smaller ones offer a diverse lineup of mostly new music lasting until near dawn.
Molly Tuttle became a bluegrass star at precisely the age and stage of her life when she needed to not be a bluegrass artist. But five years later, she's written and recorded Crooked Tree, which Craig Havighurst argues is an album for the bluegrass history books.
David Heard broadcasting live from The Labour in Vain in 2013 Photo by Santanta Rudge For over 40 years, David Heard volunteered at PBSFM. One of the station’s earliest members, 23 year old David (originally from Noradjuha, in the Wimmera) joined the airwaves in 1979 presenting programs including Mainly Acoustic, Acoustic, Folk, Roots and Country programs, Rock’N’Country, Seen