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2021 Alternative Music Festival Guide
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Since most bands halted their touring in and around March 2020, we, the concertgoers, have been chomping at the bit to get back to live music!
Chomping so hard that BONNAROO and Aftershock are sold out! (Hence why they aren t listed here.) If you re up for a road trip, here s as extensive a list as I could get together.
Hosted each year by bluegrass band Pert Near Sandstone, Blue Ox is an outdoor Bluegrass, Roots, and Americana music festival. Highlights this year include: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Shaky Graves, Leftover Salmon, Sam Bush, and others.
Photo by David McClister
Morgan Wade may seem like an overnight sensation, her story is like one out of a fairy tale. Playing early on a stacked festival bill in her small hometown of Floyd, Virginia (2019’s population is listed as 724) in 2018, Wade’s twangy Americana sound caught the ears of headliner
Jason Isbell’s crew who bought merch from Wade and then shared it with members of the band, including
Sadler Vaden. The guitarist heard Wade’s immense talent and reached out with an offer of working on honing her songwriting and helping her release material. The result of this collaboration,