December 29, 2009
New Year's Bluegrass Festival
By Bill DeYoung

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There's probably not too many indoor bluegrass festivals in the United States. Part of the charm of the old-style fests is sitting in your lawn chair, seeing and hearing the various acts come and go on the stage, and sampling whatever wafts by the on the breeze - your neighbor's barbeque, the odd conversation, pickin' around the campfire. Holding a bluegrass festival inside a big concrete building, it could be argued, defeats the purpose. Indoors, you kind of have to pay attention.
Don't tell that to Adams and Anderson, LLC, the company that's putting on this week's New Year's Bluegrass Festival inside the Jekyll Island Convention Center. These folks have been doing it this way for 34 years now, so they must be doing something right.

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