FreshGrass | North Adams

Thank you to the city of North Adams and the artists, visitors, crew, staff, vendors, partners, and volunteers who made FreshGrass North Adams 2024 another one for the books! Congratulations to this year's Awards winners: Catfish in the Sky (Band), Jacqui Armbruster (Fiddle), G Rockwell (Guitar), and Ettore Buzzini (Banjo). Learn more here. Ready to do it all again? A limited number of Early-Bird Tickets are now on sale for FreshGrass North Adams, September 19-21, 2025! Lock yours in at the lowest rate possible. "[A] wonderland of traditional and cutting-edge roots music." - New England Public Media Set against the foothills of the beautiful Berkshire mountains FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival with the best in bluegrass and roots music filling the fields, courtyards, and galleries of MASS MoCA - the largest contemporary art museum in the country (gallery admission included with all tickets!). Along with world premieres, emerging artist competitions, farm-fresh food, local brews, and pop-up jam sessions, this is three days of festival magic produced in partnership by MASS MoCA, the FreshGrass Foundation, and No Depression. About FreshGrass | North Adams Music starts early in the museum courtyards, moves to our spacious (and grassy!) urban concert meadow, and then continues until past your bedtime with wild and woolly late-night barn dances in the Hunter Center on Friday and Saturday nights. Concerts held rain or shine. The lineup is jam-packed with guitar gods and banjo gurus, traditionalists, and trailblazers - artists you already know and love interspersed with FreshGrass discoveries. Taken together, it's an expansive group of performers who both draw on the past and look to the future. We like to think of it as "great music uprooted." The FreshGrass Awards celebrates new talent, with cash prizes to the contest winners. Finalists in the band, banjo, fiddle, and guitar categories perform for a panel of industry professionals on Saturday and Sunday of the festival, with winners announced on Sunday afternoon. Open to all festival-goers, the contest showcases the future of bluegrass and roots music when the bands play original and traditional tunes. With prizes totaling $20,000, grand prize winners receive a performance spot at the next year's festival, recording sessions at Compass Records, and handcrafted instruments from festival sponsors. Stay up-to-date with all things FreshGrass at freshgrass.com Subscribe to the FreshGrass | North Adams newsletter here and follow FreshGrass on Instagram and Facebook for updates. By purchasing a ticket to FreshGrass (and all events on our campus), you agree to join MASS MoCA's visitors, staff, and artists in following our Courtesy Code, detailed here . FreshGrass | North Adams is proud to partner with One Tree Planted to plant a tree for every ticket sold. Learn more about FreshGrass Foundations Sustainability Pledge here.