CONGRATULATIONS to Paul Lundgren (Averill Park, NY) and Ted Albert (Red Hook, NY). Each have won a pair of front row tickets to the Danny Paisley concert presented by the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association on April 4. Your tickets will be waiting at Will Call. Please have your ID ready.

For complete details about the concert, including directions, visit HVBA.

Now sit back and enjoy one of the best bands in traditional bluegrass. Be sure to wish Danny a Happy Birthday from all of us at Grey Fox!

We had a lot of entries from all over the Northeast! Thanks to everyone for participating.

Street Team members and friends of Grey Fox take note: Our 2009 flyers are ready for distribution. Lisa has mailed bunches out to members of our Street Team. You should be receiving them any day now.

If you’re in Greene County, there are three convenient locations for picking up flyers and tourism information:

1. Retriever Roasters: 394 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-5858. Official Flyer Pick-Up Location.

2. The Milk Run: 3552 Route 145, East Durham, NY (518) 239-8950. Official Flyer Pick-Up Location.

3. Greene County Visitor Center: Just off Exit 21 of NYS Thruway (Catskill/Cairo Exit). For Greene County Travel Guides, Maps, etc.

If you’re not already on our Street Team and would like some flyers to hand out at music stores, concert venues, festivals, bookstores, food coops and other likely places in your area, please JOIN OUR STREET TEAM or email office@greyfoxbluegrass.com.

Thanks for helping us spread the word about the great music and fun at Grey Fox.

Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival attracts fans from all over the world. We have welcomed bluegrass lovers from as far away as Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and as nearby, relatively speaking, as Quebec and Ontario, Canada. In 2008, bluegrass fans attended Grey Fox from a dozen countries as well as 37 of the 52 states in the US. On Sunday morning, not everyone was present, but several guests from nine countries made their way to the Workshop Stage to have their photo taken together as one happy family! And here they are! Thanks to all of you for making long treks to Grey Fox and for being a part of our musical community. Music really does make the world a better place!

Sunday Morning Photo of International Guests at Grey Fox 2008:

Front Row: Nozomi Tanimura (Japan); Akira Tanimura (Japan); Kyoko Tanimura (Japan); Junzo Tanimura (Japan); Dana von Koenemann (Germany); Valerie von Koenemann (Germany); Jose Maria Pulida (Spain); Amaia Irigoien (Basque, Spain); Maribel Sanchez Rivero (Spain)

Second Row: Peter Higgs (Australia); Claudia Kasny (Luxembourg); Flora Knight (New Zealand); Marie Rempel (Canada); Anneke Boelers (Netherlands); Vince O’Brien (Australia); Estibaliz Miguel (Spain)

Third Row: BB Bowness (Australia); George Jackson (Australia); Dieter Rabes (Luxembourg); Urbil Artola (Basque, Spain); Schmitt Lionel (France); Len de Vries (Netherlands); Liuis Gomez (Spain); Dani Venegas (Spain); Norah Browne (Canada); David King (Canada); Cristina Garrote (Spain)

Thanks again and we hope to see everyone at this year’s festival!

GREY FOX is giving way two pair of FRONT ROW TICKETS for DANNY PAISLEY & THE SOUTHERN GRASS in concert on Saturday, April 4, 2009 in Hyde Park, NY. You can’t beat a front row seat to hear 2007 IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year nominee, Danny Paisley! To make things even merrier, April 4 is Danny’s birthday and there’ll be free cake for everyone.

The concert is presented by the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association. Location will be the United Methodist Church, 1 Church St., Hyde Park, N.Y., 12538. Music begins at 7pm. Ticket price: Members $10; Non-members $15.

TO ENTER TICKET GIVEAWAY CONTEST: Click and sign up for the Grey Fox Mailing List between March 9 and 27. There will be two winners, each winning a pair of front row tickets. Woo-hoo! IMPORTANT: When you sign up, answer all the questions including the question, “What band(s) would you like to see?” Your answer must be “Danny Paisley.” If you’re already on our mailing list, that’s fine. You can sign up again, once, during the contest. Good luck. We’ll announce the winners on March 28 on the Grey Fox Blog.

Below is HVBA’s press release on the concert:

Rounder Records Recording Artist Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass To Perform
in Hyde Park, N.Y., April 4 – (Danny Paisley’s Birthday!)

The Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association presents Rounder Records Recording Artist Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, 2009, at the United Methodist Church, 1 Church St., Hyde Park, N.Y., 12538.

The concert is sponsored by Babicz Guitars; Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival; and Diane Schoonmaker and Dave Cobb’s Flying Change Farm. A Babicz guitar will be raffled during the show. You must be present to win.

In honor of Danny Paisley’s birthday that day, the HVBA will be serving free cake.

Tickets are $10 for HVBA members and $15/non-members. Tickets may be purchased online at  www.hvbluegrass.org. Or to reserve tickets, send an email to tickets@hvbluegrass.org or call Lynn Lipton at (845) 485-8814. Tickets can be held at the door. No tickets will be mailed.

Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass play powerful, unadorned, and intense traditional bluegrass – no hybrid or genre-bending music here. It’s music borne of the vibrant old-time southern fiddle bands as well as the lonesome moans of the backwoods mountain blues. The instruments blaze with energy while the songs reveal a paradoxical, desperate sadness anchoring the music squarely in the classic bluegrass tradition. Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass combine those forces with a drive and energy that takes over your senses. It’s music you not only hear but also feel in your gut. To learn more, visit www.dannypaisley.com.

Opening act will be the Sleepy Hollow String Band, from Westchester County, N.Y., an acoustic bluegrass band covering a wide range of American traditional roots music. Its influences range from Flatt and Scruggs and Ricky Skaggs to Johnny Cash, George Jones, Leadbelly, and Woody Guthrie. Connie McCardle, lead singer and guitarist, is a haute couture dress designer by day and by night brings an honest and authentic southern vibe to the blues-inflected tunes she sings. Cousin Bob Bernstein’s mandolin chop is always where it needs to be, at the edge of the beat and driving the band. While he is a school psychologist by day, he swings the band with his saucy lead playing. Ben Freed, on banjo, is the band’s unofficial but never reluctant leader and also the band’s optometrist. You may have heard his banjo playing on the soundtrack of The Simpsons TV show or the film Raising Arizona. Rick Brodsky, also a psychologist, contributes the band’s rhythmic foundation on upright bass with his rock-solid sense of timing. Visit http://banjoben.com/sleepy_hollow_string_band.htm for more information.

For more information about the concert or to join the HVBA, visit www.hvbluegrass.org or email hvba@hvbluegrass.org. Membership is $15 per year.

Press Contact: Jeff Anzevino, President, Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association, (845) 331-6517