Hot August Music Festival Returns for it’s 25th Year this Saturday August 19th!
Hot August Music Festival Returns for it’s 25th Year this Saturday August 19th!
Celebrating its twenty-fifth year the Hot August Music Festival will once again return to the picturesque setting of Oregon Ridge Park in Cockeysville, Maryland (minutes from downtown Baltimore) August 19, 2017. Hot August Music Festival has assembled a lineup this year that reflects the overriding principle festival founder and promoter, Brad Selko, has adhered to over the previous twenty five years. “To provide a different variety of American roots music each year. Blues, bluegrass, rock, funk, jam, whatever. I like to cover the whole spectrum,” explains Selko. This year’s line-up topped by Old Crow Medicine Show and featuring The Infamous Stringdusters, Turkuaz, Lettuce, Cabinet, Baskery, ELM, John Mooney & Bluesiana, The Dustbowl Revival, Squaring the Circle, Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials, and Memphis Gold does just that.
Since its beginning on the cozy confines of Selko’s farm in 1993 to blossoming to its present day location at Oregon Ridge Park, the Hot August Music Festival has stayed true to Selko’s vision of a creating a high-quality, intimate, fan-friendly festival, that in addition to three stages of live music will feature performance artists, local artisans, a wide range of food and beverage vendors, and activities throughout the day for kids.
The Hot August Music Festival was born twenty-five years ago out of Selko’s desire to raise money for the Baltimore Blues Society by hiring two bands, Charlie Musselwhite and the Brett Wilson Band, to play a picnic on his farm for a few friends. That small backyard picnic attracted four hundred people the first year and quickly grew into an award winning festival (Baltimore Magazine Best Music Festival 2013, Tri-State Indie Music Award for Festival of the Year 2011) and annual event that is a must see each year.
In celebration of the Hot August Music Festival’s twenty-fifth year, this year will feature the Back to the Farm Stage and will highlight the festival’s humble, blues-based roots found on Selko’s farm. The stage will feature blues acts throughout the day and will be headlined by delta-blues legend John Mooney.
Here is the history of Musicians that have played this festival:
Hot August Music Festival – Line up History
25th HAMF 2017
Main Stage
Old Crow Medicine Show, Infamous String Dusters, Lettuce, Cabinet, ELM
Professional Vision Zeiss Stage
Turkuaz, Dustbowl Revival, Baskery, Squaring the Circle,
Back to the Farm Stage
John Mooney &Bluesiana, Lil’ Ed & The blues Imperials, Memphis Gold w/special guest Brett Willson (who played at first HAB in 1993), Fried Pickin’ playing at the front gate.
24th HAMF 2016
Main stage
Thievery Corporation, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, The Revivalists, Leftover Salmon and Litz
Professional Vision Zeiss Stage
Railroad Earth, Samantha Fish, Cabinet, Eastman String Band
Pickers Grove: Fried Picken’ played at front gate.
23rd HAMF 2015
Main stage:
Marah, Shakey Graves, Railroad Earth, The Punch Brothers, and Counting Crows
Professional Vision Zeiss Stage
June Star, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, The Revivalists, The Infamous String Dusters
PayPal Stage
The Sligo Creek Stompers, Hollis Brown, Dennis Jones Band, Cabinet, Jarekus Singletone
22nd HAMF 2014
Main Stage
Old Crow Medicine Show, Nickel Creek, Dr. Dog, Houndmouth, Bosley
Professional Vision Zeiss Stage
Tab Benoit, Turkuaz, Ursula Ricks, Jordan August Band
PayPal Stage
Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds, Cabinet, ELM, The Solicitors
21st HAB 2013
Main Stage
Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Galactic, Greensky Bluegrass, JD McPherson, Cara Kelly & The Tell Tale
B-Side Stage
Boombox, Antibalas, Eddy Clearwater, MOTH Poetic Circus, Country Devils
Hillside Professional Vision Stage
DELTAnine, Scott Tournet and Ver La Luz, 61 North, Herd of Main Street
20th HAB 2012
Main Stage
Gov’t Mule, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Justin Townes Earle, Locos Por Juana, Cris Jacobs Band
B-Side Stage
Magic Slim & The Teardrops, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, Bovine Social Club, Chris Kasper, Matt Pless
19th HAB 2011
Main Stage
Tedeschi Trucks Band, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Kings Go Forth, J. Roddy Walston and The Business, Tom Larsen Band
B-Side Stage
Lower Case Blues, Sweet Leda, Jesters of Kindness, Lawnchair, Lennon La Ricci & The Leftovers
18th HAB 2010
Main Stage
LYLE LOVETT and his Large Band, Keb’ Mo’, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, The Bridge, Jackie Scott and the Housewreckers
B-Side Stage
Higher Hands, Sweet Leda, Choo Choo Charlie, Dean Rosenthal
17th HAB 2009
Main Stage
The Derek Trucks Band, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Chopteeth, Old Man Brown, Dean Rosenthal, Batala Percussion Band
16th HAB 2008
Main Stage
John Hiatt & The Ageless Beauties, Marcia Ball, JJ Grey & Mofro, Bonerama, Prof. Louie & The Crowmatix, Janet Griffin & The Fine Young Segovians
15th HAB 2007
Main Stage
Dickey Betts & Great Southern, Joan Osbourne, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Eric Lindell, Charles “Big Daddy” Stallings, Blues Therapy
14th HAB 2006
Main Stage
The North Mississippi Allstars, The Subdudes, Larry McCray, Lil’ Brian and the Zydeco Travelers, Peter Karp, Lea Gilmore
13th HAB 2005
Main Stage
Walter “Wolfman ‘Washington with John Mooney – Shemekia Copeland, Chubby Carrier, Anthony Gomes, Kelly Bell Band
12th HAB 2004
Main Stage
Taj Mahal, Sonny Landreth, Renee Austin, W.C. Clark, Choo Choo Charlie, Lil Brian & The Zydeco Travelers
11th HAB 2003 (First year at Oregon Ridge)
Main Stage
Delbert McCinton, Marcia Ball, John Mooney, Chris Cain, Scott Cunningham
10th HAB 2002 (festival was located at Big Jim’s Farm on papermill Rd.)
Main Stage
Otis Clay, Bernard Allison, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, John Mooney, Theresa Andersson
9th HAB 2001 (last year festival was held at the farm in Monkton –Across from the Manor tavern)
Main Stage
Delbert McClinton, Frankie Lee, Willie Kent & the Gents w/ Bonnie Lee, Dona Oxford
8th HAB 2000
Main Stage
Jimmy Johnson, John Mooney & Bluesiana, Lil’ Brian & the Zydeco Travelers, Lloyd Jones
7th HAB 1999
Main Stage
Carl Weathersby, Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone, Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, Deanna Bogart, Memphis Gold
6th HAB 1998
Main Stage
Lonnie Brooks w/ Ronnie Baker, Shemekia Copeland, Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Cha’s, Kendra Holts
5th HAB 1997
Main Stage
Kim Wilson, Big Jay McNeely w/ Little Sonny, Rosie Ledet, Steve Kramer & his Bluesicians
4th HAB 1996
Main Stage
Marcia Ball, Son Seals, Larry Johnson, Tino Gonzales w/ Carl Filipiak
3rd HAB 1995
Main Stage
Terrance Simien & the Mallet Playboys, John Mooney & Bluesiana, Doug Jay & the Bluejays
2nd HAB 1994
Main Stage
Magic Slim & the Teardrops, Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice, The Shirley Lewis Experience
1st HAB 1993
Main Stage
Charlie Musselwhite, Brett Wilson
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Peace & Blessings,
Stuart