The New York Times has selected Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival as its top “Pop” happening during the coming week, describing our award-winning lineup as the cream of the “Twang-erati.”  Good enough! Nice to be recognized by one of the world’s leading newspapers!

And The Times selected one of Amanda Kowalski’s FINE photos to print! Amanda’s photographic eye is every bit as gorgeous as her dead-on bass playing! You’ll find out all about Amanda when she performs with the debuting band, Della Mae at the festival. She’ll be in a bass workshop with Mike Bub and Mike Barber, as well. Don’t miss that one! Della Mae’s fiddler, Kimber Ludiker, is the current (for the second year in a row) National Fiddle Champion. She’ll be in a couple of not-to-be-missed workshops, too. But I digress……

Following is what Dana Jennings of the NY Times wrote about us…

“There are times when New York thrums and throbs as if it truly is the white-hot center of the known universe. But given that many of us aren’t from the big city, there are days when we pine for our long-lost agrarian pasts — usually after almost getting mowed down in a crosswalk by a Hummer swaggering down the street. And there’s nothing quite like a bluegrass festival to satisfy that down-home ache.

The 2010 GREY FOX BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL opens its four-day run on Thursday in Oak Hill, N.Y., which is some two and a half hours northwest of Manhattan. Walsh Farm there will be flush with the cream of the twang-erati. The festival’s featured acts include the Del McCoury Band, the Dry Branch Fire Squad, the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, the Kathy Mattea Band, Crooked Still and dozens more. There will be crying fiddles, barking banjos and a clutch of voices higher and more lonesome than Mount Everest.

If you’re thinking that you might be a bit too uptown for a bluegrass festival, just shut your eyes, drink in the timeless tales of grief and woe that the music tells so well, and then imagine Grey Fox as Shakespeare in the Park — with a twang. Thursday through next Sunday, music pretty much all morning, noon and night, Walsh Farm, 1 Poultney Road, Oak Hill, N.Y., (888) 946-8495, greyfoxbluegrass.com/ws/pages/home.php; $175 full festival, $45 Thursday, $55 Friday and Saturday, $25 Sunday.”

Here’s the link to the entire article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/arts/11weekaheadweb.html