Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
@DelFest1 is known as a family reunion – literally, and figuratively. BGS videographers and contributors @iknowweshould were on hand at this year’s festival, held over Memorial Day weekend in Cumberland, Maryland, to capture exclusive DelFest Sessions featuring some of the many luminaries on the festival lineup.
To launch the series we have an apropos first act, the Travelin’ McCourys, reigning IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year and the backing band for Grammy-winning living legend, Del McCoury, who founded and hosts the annual event nestled in the Appalachian Mountains along the Potomac River. With Virginia just across the river’s banks, the band – including Del’s sons Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, as well as Alan Bartram, Jason Carter, and Cody Kilby – performed three incredible songs highlighting their instrumental and vocal virtuosity and bursting with full-bore bluegrass energy.
For their second selection, Bartram steps up to the microphone to sing “Lonely Night,” while festival-goers float by on the North Branch of the Potomac in the background. This band knows how to lean into iconic lonesome and “modal” bluegrass stylings, lending a perfectly haunting tone to the lyrics.
Stay tuned as we debut new DelFest Sessions weekly right here on BGS over the next few weeks. And, make plans to visit Cumberland, Maryland and DelFest in 2025.
Hear more at @McCouryMusic
Video: Bradley Wagner
Audio: Juan Soria
Drone footage: Christopher Weist
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@DelFest1 is known as a family reunion – literally, and figuratively. BGS videographers and contributors @iknowweshould were on hand at this year’s festival, held over Memorial Day weekend in Cumberland, Maryland, to capture exclusive DelFest Sessions featuring some of the many luminaries on the festival lineup.
To launch the series we have an apropos first act, the Travelin’ McCourys, reigning IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year and the backing band for Grammy-winning living legend, Del McCoury, who founded and hosts the annual event nestled in the Appalachian Mountains along the Potomac River. With Virginia just across the river’s banks, the band – including Del’s sons Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, as well as Alan Bartram, Jason Carter, and Cody Kilby – performed three incredible songs highlighting their instrumental and vocal virtuosity and bursting with full-bore bluegrass energy.
For their second selection, Bartram steps up to the microphone to sing “Lonely Night,” while festival-goers float by on the North Branch of the Potomac in the background. This band knows how to lean into iconic lonesome and “modal” bluegrass stylings, lending a perfectly haunting tone to the lyrics.
Stay tuned as we debut new DelFest Sessions weekly right here on BGS over the next few weeks. And, make plans to visit Cumberland, Maryland and DelFest in 2025.
Hear more at @McCouryMusic
Video: Bradley Wagner
Audio: Juan Soria
Drone footage: Christopher Weist
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