We stumbled upon this little Bluegrass Festival in rural New Jersey of all places. We chose a family campground as base for our visit to Philadelphia. For Thursday, Friday and Saturday several hundred people and 15 different bands descended upon camp.

Smoke wafting through the campground: campfire wood smoke and more than a little wacky weed.
A giant, bright yellow stuffed “Reggae banana”, dreadlocks and all stood vigil at one campsite.
An eerie looking glow in the dark green beard….it was actually just a glow stick necklace under this shaggy white beard; really attention getting.
Fire juggling at a campsite across the lake from the music.
Tie dye absolutely everywhere. Three button placket shirts to bikini tops and doggie scarves.

Oh yeah, the music
Some sounded like what I anticipated bluegrass would sound like.
A double bass, fiddle, banjo and guitar where bass and guitar slaps provided the percussion. All this to accompany fun vocals like “Sleep with one eye open”. They did some yodeling (the guy was from Brooklyn!) too.
An all girls group, Della Mae, with a fantastic mandolin player along with bass and guitars and fun ballad-like vocals.
Some was just LOUD….The closing bands Sat and Sun were really more like rock bands; amazingly loud and not much to my liking.

Overall it was a lot of fun.
We’d probably do it again. We heard maybe a third of the bands and sampled some great local BBQ and baked goods and some pretty sorry tasting local wine. People were open and friendly and amazingly well behaved given the amount of beer consumed.