The Goodtime Stringband

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Lake Street Garden Center is holding a Fall Festival, Saturday, September 13 and Sunday, September 14. There will be fun activities to entertain the family, sales across the garden center, as well as drawings & prizes. The family activities are offered from 11 am - 2 pm each day.

Saturday features bluegrass music by the “Goodtime Stringband” (http://www.goodtimestringband.com) from Massachusetts. The public is invited to attend this free concert anytime during their performance. McDonny’s Farm in Derry, New Hampshire will bring their Petting Farm for the kids to enjoy and Salem, NH’s Boy Scout Troop 409 will be selling hotdogs and refreshments in support of their troop.

On Sunday, there will be free pony rides and the petting farm from McDonny’s Farm from 11 am -2pm. Hawksie’s Ice Cream from Salem, NH will have plenty of ice cream flavors and slushes available for purchase both days.

The Festival hours are from 9am to 5pm. Some of the biggest Sales of the year will be offered throughout the Garden Center and drawings for various plants and prizes.

The Goodtime Stringband had the pleasure of performing for Derek and Juliah’s wedding this past weekend at the North Country Conservation and Education Center in Bethlehem, NH. What a fun bunch of folks! Bluegrass music and an ice cold keg of Rainbow Red Ale was a perfect compliment to the festivities.

In case anyone ever doubted it - that old wooden barn floor of the Rock’s Estate was made for dancing!!!

Andy had the pleasure of performing with the Stillhouse Jammers at the Lowell Folk Festival last month. We rocked the crowd at Brew’d Awakening through the weekend’s biggest downpour. It was a goodtime indeed - thanks fellas!

There’s a great line-up of acts that will be performing at the Lowell Folk Festival in a couple of weeks. This year’s “bluegrass feature act” will be the Lonesome River Band. For a complete list of perfomers click here.

The Lonesome River Band’s signature tight harmonies, solid instrumentals and innovative repertoire produced one of the most distinctive ensembles in all of bluegrass. This year will mark the band’s 26th anniversary.

Sammy Shelor is one of my favorite banjo players - I can’t wait to see him perform again!