Rooster Walk 14 detailed the festival's initial 2024 lineup, which includes Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band, Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country, TAUK Moore and others.
I just returned from a Musical Sojourn in Porto, Portugal, a weeklong musical experience featuring ALO’s Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz, Natalie Cressman and Jennifer Hartswick (Trey Anastasio Band and multiple other projects), Nikki Bluhm, members of Greensky Bluegrass, Fruition and Railroad Earth, and many other artists from the extended jam and bluegrass world. This was a unique and intimate event with six days and nights of musical tourism in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. (The entire musician list is at the end of this article.)
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Travis Book, Anders Beck and Jon Stickley at a recent ‘Happy Hour’ performance. (photo: John A. Zara)
Before the shutdown of the entire music industry in March 2020 due to the pandemic, The Infamous Stringdusters were widely-regarded as one of the hardest touring, most talented and innovative acts in the bluegrass and jam scenes.
And since last year, the ‘Dusters went their separate ways until they could circle back and crank the tunes again. Though most of the band calls Colorado home, bassist Travis Book resides in Brevard mountain biking in nearby DuPont State Forest and working on his antique Ford pickup when not on the road or in the studio.