MASS MoCA’s FreshGrass Festival has announced the six semi-finalists of the inaugural FreshGrass Award.
There were countless submissions of quality from all over the country and the FreshGrass Award jury found six to be especially excellent, thoughtful, and original.
The six semi-finalists are:
Six Deadly Venoms 
The Vickie Vaughn Band 
Cricket Tell the Weather 
Molly Tuttle, John Mailander, and Ethan Jodziewicz 
The Lonely Heartstring Band 
Chasing Blue
On Sunday morning (September 22nd) during the festival, each band will perform a short set in front of the jury (and the public!), vying for a $5,000 cash first prize, a $1,000 recording session at Compass Records' studio in Nashville, and a spot onstage at FreshGrass 2014.
If you’re lucky enough to catch their performances this year you can say you saw these guys and gals when! – For now you can get acquainted with each of the bands from select videos on the FreshGrass website.
FreshGrass is rich in both traditional and cutting-edge bluegrass, presented in a wide array of venues tucked appropriately into a 19th-century factory turned 21st-century museum… all set amidst the beautiful backdrop of the Berkshire mountains of northwestern Massachusetts. FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming with bright talent on four stages, and also in the area’s galleries, brick-lined courtyards, and grassy field.
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