Reservoir Hill Park ~ Pagosa Springs, CO
June 4, 5 & 6, 2010

(subject to change)

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FRIDAY, JUNE 4

FREE Friday Concert - Everyone welcome!
June 4, 2010 • 5:00 PM • Pagosa Springs Town Park

Friday Late Night Stage
Reservoir Hill Festival Grounds

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SATURDAY, JUNE 5
Reservoir Hill Festival Grounds

Main Stage

Rendezvous Stage (Acoustic)

Saturday Late Night Stage

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SUNDAY, JUNE 6
Reservoir Hill Festival Grounds

Main Stage

Rendezvous Stage (Acoustic)

Schedule subject to change.

The Badly Bent
The Badly Bent has been entrenched in the bluegrass music scene since 1997.  Based in Durango, Colorado, The Badly Bent has proven its musicianship through the winning of prestigious music competitions and receiving accolades from many of its peers in the bluegrass industry.  These boys are not newcomers to either the bluegrass scene or performing in front of large audiences.

The Badly Bent does not present itself as one of the new pseudo-bluegrass jam bands.  Although their musical prowess allows them to explore the edges of traditional music, the listener will find that the music never strays far from the roots established by the fathers of the genre.  Their love for the genuine bluegrass sound is evident every time they take the stage. But, don’t be surprised when they pull a song out of the hat that everyone says, “Now, where have I heard that before?”  Their repertoire will please even the most discriminating listener.

The Badly Bent started in Durango with a group of well-known musicians gathering to become the top of the bluegrass scene.  The configuration of the band evolved to its current form in 2003. Sharing lead vocals are Pat Dressen (guitar) and Mark Epstein (banjo).  Harmony vocals by Robb Brophy (mandolin) and Jimmy Largent (bass), combined with the sought-after sound of Bill Adams (dobro) rounds out the ensemble of The Badly Bent.

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Bearfoot
A mere two years after their initial meeting as camp counselors, Bearfoot earned one of roots music’s most prestigious awards – Telluride Bluegrass Band Champions – an honor they share with artists like Dixie Chicks and Nickel Creek.  Now, after years of national touring at top theaters and festivals, Bearfoot joins these iconic pop peers, with the broad horizon of the Americana frontier in their souls.

Bearfoot is deeply American music.  Airy Northern ballads are tempered by back-alley Southern blues, while jazz stomp meets Appalachian breakdown, the whole fused with a signature sexy bluegrass passion.
Boasting five distinctive lead voices, the group showcases a remarkable breadth of rich, original songs.  Their arrangements soar with smoky, spacious lyricism.  The rhythmic bounce and precision of their instrumentation is fiery and inventive, with an earthy focus on blend, harmony, and tone.  Bearfoot is sophisticated, vital music.  Contemporary guitar voicing set against melodic purity; youthful grit encounters harmonic romance.

Bearfoot – the name slyly nods to the wilds of their native Alaska, conjuring images of rural string-band musicians, and, in its simple elegance, elevating the quintet to the top of a cultural mountain where they overlook the past, present, and future of Americana music.

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Belleville Outfit

Based out of Louisiana’s finest music and arts city, but with hometowns littered across the United States, the Belleville Outfit serves up a truly unique mix of gypsy swing, big band jazz, and roots Americana/Bluegrass. Both innovative in their combining of genres, and true to their musical roots, the Belleville Outfit, though young, has already solidified itself as a tour-de-force in the world of acoustic music.

Band members Rob Teter, Marshall Hood and Jeff Brown toured extensively with a group based out of South Carolina called the DesChamps Band, an all acoustic swing/bluegrass group that has shared stages with such prestigious acts as The Waybacks, Junior Brown, the Del McCoury Band, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Duhks, and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, as well as released two full length records.

Now, as the Belleville Outfit, with the additional talents of Phoebe Hunt on violin, Connor Forsyth on piano, and Jonathan Konya on the drums, the group is poised to introduce their inventive sound into the ears of anyone and everyone who will listen.

"One of the striking things about the current Americana music trend is that it is the exploration of some really old styles undertaken by some really young musicians. Of all the bands making their MerleFest debuts last April, the one that came away with the unofficial "buzz maker" award was the young sextet the Belleville Outfit. Performing shows at the Americana Stage and the Hillside Stage, the Belleville Outfit wowed MerleFest fans with high-energy sets of New Orleans-style barrelhouse piano blues, big band jazz and gypsy swing, all tempered with a modern Americana sensibility and sense of humor."  - Jeff Eason, Mountain Times

Listen to the Belleville Outfit on MySpace

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