The Down Home Up Here Festival is back for the 11th year on April 15th and 17th. The festival, held annually on Patriots' Day Weekend, will feature more than a dozen Bluegrass and Old Time acts performing live on the Passim stage. There will also be classes for musicians looking to get into Bluegrass and Old Time music and a Bluegrass brunch on Sunday morning.
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Program #240 (April 16 at 8:00 p.m. and April 17 at 3:00 p.m.)
Mike Barnett is a virtuoso fiddler with a sound that straddles traditional and contemporary bluegrass, jazz, and folk.
Raised in Nashville, Barnett began playing the fiddle in his youth and by his teens was already a formidable performer. At age 14, he recorded his debut album, Lost Indian, which found him putting his mark on a set of bluegrass fiddle classics. From there, he caught the ear the director of Vanderbilt University s fiddle program, which brought him on board to teach at the Vanderbilt Blair School of Music International Fiddle Camp alongside such veteran performers as Vassar Clements, Bobby Hicks, and Buddy Spicher.