🌱🎻 Grassfed Bluegrass is growing up fast, and Riley and Miller came on WTRFT to talk about how the hell they’re pulling it off.
They went from bluegrass fans and festival volunteers to building their own festival on the Outer Banks and basically learning everything as they go. 😅
We get into:
🎟️ Booking bands 🏕️ Finding the right venue 🍺 Beer, vendors and logistics 🚽 The extremely glamorous world of porta potties 📱 Social media and marketing 👕 Merch 🚗 Parking 💸 Ticket sales 😬 And the constant feeling of “oh shit, we actually have to make this happen”
We also talk about how Billy Strings helped pull them deeper into bluegrass, how volunteering at other festivals taught them what happens behind the scenes, and why they’ve built Grassfed around community, quality, good people and doing things the right way. 🌱❤️🎶
And of course, we tell the story of how I met Riley and Miller…
🥶 Freezing in line in Asheville
🥃 Shooters
📜 A Billy Strings poster
😂 Me folding that poster directly in front of Miller
😳 Miller looking at me like she had just witnessed a felony
Somehow, years later, those same people decided it would be a good idea to bring me in to emcee their festival. 🎤🔥
This year’s lineup is stacked:
🔥 ShadowGrass 🪕 East Nash Grass 🧭 Broken Compass 🏡 Front Porch 🎻 All She Wrote 🌹 Red Bud 🎶 Pickety Split 🚐 Podunk Ramblers
Eight bands. Two stages. One day. 🌱🎶🔥
🎧 Full episode with the founders of Grassfed Bluegrass is live now
📍 Nags Head, North Carolina 🎟️ Use code WTRFT at grassfedbluegrass.com for discounted tickets
Come for the bluegrass. Stay to find out why anyone thought giving me a microphone was a good idea. 😂🎤🌱
