WinterWonderGrass has begun its tenth festival of the best of bluegrass. Scotty Stoughton talks with Westword about founding the festival and how it became a destination for bluegrass lovers.
, at a music festival that Sucker was playing. Stoughton invited the banjo player to sit in with his band, and Vann, who died from cancer in 2002, returned the favor and had Stoughton sit in with Leftover Salmon.
“I said, 'Fuck it, let's do something outside in the winter,’” he recalls. “And I was so tired of going to beer festivals with horrible music and then festivals and concerts with shitty beer.” “The winter is a great equalizer,” he explains. “Most people who go to outdoor concerts in the winter, people think they’re crazy. Okay, that cuts 50 percent out right there. The other 50 percent are like, ‘That's awesome! I love skiing. I love being outdoors. I love getting crazy.' It’s like the Burning Man effect a little bit: 'Let's go to a 105-degree desert for a week.'”
The lineup for this year’s festival, which runs from Friday, February 25, to Sunday, February 27, in Steamboat Springs, includes Trampled by Turtles, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, the Wood Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band, Kitchen Dwellers, the Travelin’ McCourys, the War and Treaty, Molly Tuttle and more.
“[Lukas Nelson] is a really incredible human, and his message is very positive,” Stoughton says. “He's very grounded. His band is incredible. My job is to turn people on to new music and to advance our scene and just evolve. Sometimes you have to contract to expand.” “Half of our tents are heated, so you go from watching the main stage outside and you go to one of the raucous three side-tent stages," Stoughton says. “At the same time, they're raging and they're heated, and then you can go outside and dance back into the tent. So you're moving around, and that's a really great hedge against the weather.”
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