When the first Wintergrass bluegrass music festival was hosted at the Tacoma Sheraton Hotel nearly 30 years ago, its co-founders didn’t know what it would grow to become. It was inspired by Louisville ...

(2/22-2/25) The annual Wintergrass Music Festival is celebrating 25 years of bringing bluegrass west of the Rockies. Four days of local and national bluegrass bands performing, dancing and impromptu ...

Patrice O’Neill and Stephen Ruffo were the first to say it: “Bluegrass in Bellevue?” As the founders and organizers of Wintergrass, O’Neill and Ruffo were well aware of the perception of our Eastside ...

You don’t have to be a musician to love Wintergrass, but it helps. Pickers from throughout North America and the world will descend en masse in Tacoma on Thursday, when the annual four-day bluegrass ...

The 25th annual Wintergrass Music Festival is coming to Bellevue. For four days in five venues throughout Bellevue’s Hyatt Regency, thousands of bluegrass fans will be able to enjoy music from over 30 ...

They’re pickin’ here, they’re pickin’ there, they’re pickin’ everywhere at Wintergrass, Tacoma’s annual total immersion into bluegrass music. There’s nothing quite like it anywhere in the world. One ...

For the second year, Wintergrass, a venerable bluegrass festival for the region, is coming to Bellevue with more than 30 bands, including headliners the Blind Boys of Alabama and Michael Doucet, ...

The Wintergrass bluegrass festival, offering four days of pickin' and fiddlin' to fend off the midwinter blahs, is marking its 10th year with an opening-night concert Thursday on the new Chihuly ...

Lookout, Bellevue! The 2012 Wintergrass Music Festival returns to the Hyatt Regency Bellevue for the third year Thursday through Sunday. More than 30 bands and 200 musicians from regional and national ...