The Fifth Annual Oldtone Roots Music Festival 2019
OVER 30 BANDS ON 3 STAGES • CONTRA SQUARE CAJUN & SWING DANCE TENT • WORKSHOPS • INSTRUMENT & BAND CONTESTS • FARM-TO-TABLE FOOD & DRINK • ARTS & CRAFTS • CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES • ROUND THE CLOCK PICKIN' & SINGIN'
September 5-8,
2019
Cool Whisper Farm, 1011 County Rt 21, North Hillsdale, NY, 12529
Cool Whisper Farm, 1011 County Rt 21, North Hillsdale, NY, 12529
The 5th Annual Oldtone
Roots Music Festival: Preserving American Music
Musicians and Festival
Attendees Dedicated to Preservation through Participation
September 5-8, 2019
HILLSDALE, NY. The
Oldtone Roots Music Festival features three stages with traditional music performances, dances,
workshops, contests, and children’s activities. The
founders’ goal is to preserve American roots music and dance with an intimate
and interactive festival that includes opportunities to engage with main stage
artists in workshop settings. Jamming in the campground late into the night is
encouraged. In the evenings festival goers and artists dance under a tent that
perches over a spectacular view of the rolling upstate NY farm valley of Matt
and Lisa Schober’s Cool Whisper Farm. It is not unusual to find main stage
performers dancing in the dance tent or jamming late into the night in the
camping areas. Caleb Klauder of the Foghorn String Band has this to say about
Oldtone 19: “I’m going to the Oldtone Roots Music festival because their hearts
are in the music and the music there has soul.”
The festival is unique
amongst Roots music festivals for its popularity with the artists themselves as
well as the attendees, who can often be heard talking about the “Oldtone
vibe”. Well known cajun Artist Jesse Lege (Bayou Brew) stated; “If I had
to pick one best festival, and I have traveled to many, near and far....Oldtone
is the biggest, most relaxed, friendliest little festival you’ll ever spend a
weekend at... like having it in your own backyard.”
The festival has a
core of returning popular Oldtone veteran artists: the Foghorn String Band, Tuba Skinny, the Down Hill Strugglers, Jesse
Lege & the Bayou Brew, Run Mountain,
Tamar Korn, Travis Stuart, and the Russet
Trio, all who have performed
since 2016. This year the line up also includes well known bands and artists
and exciting new acts: Alice
Gerrard & the Piedmont Melody Makers, Roochie
Toochie & the Ragtime Shepherd Kings, Bruce Molsky and Allison
de Groot, Jerron Paxton, The
Alex Leach Band, Sinner Friends, and more. The full line up and schedule can be found on the Oldtone Roots Music Festival Website.
Oldtone is known for
its family friendly atmosphere with puppet shows and interactive entertainment
for children. Local food and craft vendors add to the village feel of the four
day long weekend festival, and this year, local craft beers from Big Elm,
Chatham Brewery, S&S
Farm Brewery, and Svendale
will be a highlight as well as local hard cider, and wine from Millbrook Winery.
Photo from Oldtone
Festival 2018 by Juris Mardwig
