MerleFest Expands 2017 Lineup

The 30th annual MerleFest will take place on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina April 27 – 30. Today, organizers of the long-running bluegrass festival have revealed a handful of lineup additions for this year’s event.

Colorado jamgrass pioneers Leftover Salmon, North Carolina native Tift Merritt, Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Jorma Kaukonen, celebrated Americana act Donna The Buffalo and John Driskell Hopkins Band have all been added to the lineup for April’s event. The acts announced today join an impressive lineup that already included Zac Brown Band, The Avett Brothers, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Del McCoury Band, Sam Bush Band and dozens more. The full lineup as it currently stands can be viewed below.

Tickets for MerleFest are on sale now via the event’s website.

MerleFest 2017 Lineup

Alberti Flea Circus, Todd Albright, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, The Avett Brothers, Jim Avett, Banknotes, The BattleAxe Band, Bethel University Renaissance Bluegrass Band, Roy Book Binder, The Bluegrass Experience, Laura Boosinger & The Midnight Plowboys, Mark “Brink” Brinkman, Zac Brown Band, Andy Buckner, Mark Bumgarner, Sam Bush Band, Chatham County Line, T. Michael Coleman, The Contenders, Counterclockwise String Band, Dear Brother, Donna the Buffalo, Pat Donohue, Jerry Douglas, John Doyle, Eric Ellis, Flando Calrissian, Scott Freeman, Front Country, The Gravy Boys, The Green Grass Cloggers and Strictly Strings, Mitch Greenhill, Virgil Harden & the Appalachian Countdown, Nate Harris and Spice Creek Ramblers, Wayne Henderson, Bob Hill, David Holt, The Hook & Bullet, John Driskell Hopkins Band, Sierra Hull, I Draw Slow, The InterACTive Theatre of Jef, Steve James, Sarah Jarosz, Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, Jorma Kaukonen, The Kruger Brothers, Jim Lauderdale, Jack Lawrence, Leftover Salmon, Jeff Little Trio, The Local Boys, Locust Honey String Band, Lydia Luce, Claire Lynch, Natalie Macmaster & Donnell Leahy, Mandolin Orange, Bill Mathis, Andy May, Del McCoury Band, Pat McInerney, Tift Merritt, Mipso, Mountain Heart, Megan Nash, Carol Rifkin and Jeanette Queen, Roanoke, Peter Rowan, Scythian, ShadowGrass, Steve and Ruth Smith, Joe Smothers, Ed Snodderly, The Steel Wheels, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Stray Birds, String Madness with Mitch Greenhill, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Surry Line, Bryan Sutton Band, Swift Creek, 10 String Symphony, Ken Tizzard, The Trailblazers, Happy Traum, Uncle Joe and the Shady Rest, The Waybacks, The WBT Briarhoppers, Charles Welch, Pete & Joan Wernick, Uncle Ted White, Tony Williamson