Reader Tina Aridas sent this news as a follow-up to my post about the New York State Music Fund. Here's a link to a newspaper story about the return of the Staten Island Bluegrass Festival. Thanks for the tip Tina.
This fund is allowing the Staten Island Bluegrass Festival, which had a ten-year run before the host organization could no longer help fund it (and had to skip 2006), to be resurrected for this summer. This festival had a decade-long run of bringing top-notch bluegrass acts (Rhonda Vincent, the Osborne Brothers, etc.) to Staten Island (the most inaccessible borough of NYC) as well as providing a stage for local and regional bluegrass bands. For some, it was the once-a-year chance to see this sort of entertainment. The announcement last year that the festival would end was met with dismay by many (and charges that the host venue was only concentrating on the short-term bottom line and not the long-term cultural benefits). The festival will be held -- it's 11th year (but no longer "consecutive") -- this August thanks to a grant from this fund.
Tina
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