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Fiddle Fest is back!

​Fiddle Fest is back! Saturday April 1st from 2pm to 8pm at The Sawmill Saloon in Seeley WI. This will be a fiddler’s feast of fun, served up with bluegrass, old-time stringband, and Americana music on the menu. The TrueGrass Trio, along with Randy Sabien, will host Annie & The Oakleys, Carol McDowall & Second Wind, Devin Thunhorst & The Velocirats, Squirrel Cage, and The Blue Hill Travelers. Plus special guests Allison Jonjak, Laura Idle, Sonofmel, Christina & Scott McLewin, and The Northwoods Strings.
 
There will be stage performances, old-time dances with dances taught and called, intimate coffee house concerts, and Celtic Ceilidh. Bring your instrument to join in the impromptu jam sessions. Plus food and beverage specials are all expected to be part of this all day and evening event at the Sawmill Saloon in Seeley WI (13505 N U.S. Highway 63). $10 adult admission (students 1/2 price, kids free). Click on our FiddleFest Page for complete information and a full schedule of events for the day.

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The TrueGrass Trio's FiddleFest 2023 with Randy Sabien, Annie & The Oakleys, Carol McDowall & Second Wind, Devin Thunhorst & The Velocirats, Sonofmel, Blue Hills Travelers.
Sawmill Saloon, Seeley WI
Saturday, April 1, 2023
2:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Fiddle Fest is back! Saturday April 1st from 2pm to 8pm at The Sawmill Saloon in Seeley WI. This will be a fiddler’s feast of fun, served up with bluegrass, old-time stringband, and Americana music on the menu. The TrueGrass Trio, along with Randy Sabien, will host Annie & The Oakleys, Carol McDowall & Second Wind, Devin Thunhorst & The Velocirats, Squirrel Cage, and The Blue Hill Travelers. Plus special guests Allison Jonjak, Laura Idle, Sonofmel, Christina & Scott McLewin, and The Northwoods Strings.
 
There will be stage performances, old-time dances with dances taught and called, intimate coffee house concerts, and Celtic Ceilidh. Bring your instrument to join in the impromptu jam sessions. Plus food and beverage specials are all expected to be part of this all day and evening event at the Sawmill Saloon in Seeley WI (13505 N U.S. Highway 63). $10 adult admission (students 1/2 price, kids free). Click on our FiddleFest Page for complete information and a full schedule of events for the day.

The Sawmill Saloon is the premier leisure location along the banks of the legendary Namekagon River. Located on Highway 63 just north of Hayward (13350 Town Hall Rd 54843), it’s a great stopping place for locals and tourists alike. Whether it’s the great northwoods, the live entertainment, the ambiance or the eclectic display of logging antiques, once you stop you'll be hooked. It's easy to find, just a few minutes north of Hayward right on Hwy 63. Follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/seeley63
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TrueGrass specializes in reviving music of the old-time masters, adapting modern material to the bluegrass idiom, and creating original songs and new tunes in the traditional stringband style.

​All veterans of the Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua, with over 100 years of combined professional performing experience, they take a traditional music recipe, add a pinch of influence from rock, blues, jazz, and gospel, spice it with experienced showmanship, and cook up a steady diet of fun to engage their audience on and off stage. 
TrueGrass features Tom Draughon from Ashland WI on guitar, fiddle & vocals, Bruce Qualey from Cable WI on bass & vocals, and Jed Malischke from Spooner WI on banjo, resophonic guitar & vocals.

They perform together and with various guest musicians throughout NW Wisconsin and the surrounding four state areas.​ Whether you have a small venue or large concert hall, a one act show or a multi band festival, TrueGrass can also help you organize, promote, and stage manage your event. 
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The Players

TOM DRAUGHAN

​Tom Draughon originally formed TrueGrass as part of a multimedia theatre show he created about the rural roots and history of bluegrass music. Tom is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, primarily playing Doc Watson style guitar and fronting lead vocals. He also plays clayhammer banjo and old-time fiddle (and occasionally ukulele too). He is a music educator and teaches at Northland College and through the Northwoods Strings, as well as giving private lessons. And with his gift of perfect pitch he tunes pianos!

BRUCE QUALEY

​Bruce Qualey is a classically trained bass player who enjoys performing all kinds of music. In learning the instrument, he studied with the assistant principal bassist of the Minneapolis Symphony and attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan, for five summers. Over his decades of music making, he has performed in many types of ensemble groups and in many musical styles. He played in the Rochester (MN) Symphony Orchestra for twenty years while at the same time playing in a traditional bluegrass group. After moving to northern Wisconsin in 1995, he was the long-time bass player in three popular northland groups: Duck for the Oyster, an old-time dance band; the Namekagon String Band folk group and The Dean’s List big band. Bruce is excited to be contributing to the vocal and instrumental possibilities of TrueGrass.

JED MALISCHKE

Jed Malischke has been producing concerts, festivals, and fairs for fifty plus years, first as a kid in his hometown of Milwaukee, and then as a professional with his own production company CM Management. For the past thirty years with the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association he has created five annual music festivals and several concert series. His premier event, the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival has been nominated by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) in Nashville as Event of the Year five times! And all this while performing and touring throughout the US and Europe with with groups like Java Jam, Radio Bluegrass, Dick Kimmel & Co, and the Mill City Ramblers. Jed plays a vintage 1927 Gibson arch-top banjo, Martin D-18 guitar, Dobro resophonic guitar, and stand-up bass fiddle. He has lectured and taught on the history as well as the performance of bluegrass music, served on the board of directors of the IBMA and the Foundation For Bluegrass Music (FFBM). No wonder that Wisconsin Public Radio host Tom Martin Erickson dubbed him "A Friend of Bluegrass."

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TrueGrass can perform in a variety of configurations to fit your venue and budget, including a "Tom & Jed", the "TrueGrass Trio," or with additional guest musicians. Want to put on your own concert production or outdoor mini-festival? We can find other complimentary groups to join us and provide PA, MC, and stage management for a large concert venue or small outdoor festival, all for one set price. Plus we help advertise and promote your show with press releases, social media, and Enews. Put us to work at your house this coming year!
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