BEARTRAP SUMMER FESTIVAL

Entertainment line up:
SATURDAY

* 10:00 - 10:45 - Anastasia's Fault
* 11:00 - 12:00 - Dang Ol' Boys
* 12:15 - 1:15 - Finders & Youngberg
* 1:45 - 2:45 - Ryan Shupe & The Rubberband
* 2:30 - 4:30 - Musical Workshop hosted
by Finders and Youngberg
* 3:00- 3:45 - Open Range
* 4:00 - 5:00 - Bearfoot
* 5:30 - 6:30 - Leo Kottke

SUNDAY

* 9:30-10:30 - John Kirlin Band
* 10:45-11:30 - Stone Mtn. Boys
* 11:00-11:45 - Musical Workshop hosted
by Bill Powers of Sweet Sunny South
* 11:45-12:30 - Open Range
* 12:45-1:45 - Boulder Acoustic Society
* 2:00- 3:00 - Sweet Sunny South
* 3:30-5:00 - Patty Loveless

Leo Kottke and Patty Loveless will be headlining the festival this year.
RYAN SHUPE & THE RUBBERBAND - BANJO BOY: is an American country music group founded in the mid-1990s in Ogden, UT. The band's lineup comprises Ryan Shupe (fiddle, guitar, ukulele, lead vocals), Roger Archibald (guitar, vocals), Ryan Tilby (bass guitar, vocals), Craig Miner (banjo, bouzouki, mandolin, guitar, vocals), and Bart Olson (drums). After recording four studio albums on their own independent record label, Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand were signed to Capitol Records in 2005. Their first album for Capitol, 2005's Dream Big, produced a Top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in its title track. The second single from the album, however, failed to chart, and the band was dropped from Capitol. In 2008, the band signed to Montage Music Group.

SWEET SUNNY SOUTH:is an acoustic old timey string band that plays a unique blend of new and traditional music. Based in Paonia, Colorado, the band has been making a name for itself at festivals and theaters throughout the region for the past 8 years and received invitations to perform as an official showcase band for both the
IBMA and The Folk Alliance in 2006. The group was also featured as one of Colorado's "Movers and Shakers" in Denver's Westword magazine in 2007 and
were selected the winners of the New Belgium Brewery's "What's your Folly?" contest after writing a jingle for the brewery. Sweet Sunny South represents the traditional music of greats such as The Stanley Brothers and The Carter Family at the same time drawing influences from more contemporary bands such as The Freighthoppers, The Wilders and The Reeltime Travelers. Banjo and mandolin player, Bill Powers, writes most of the bands songs, which
take the listener on scenic journeys into dusty old American music. Cory Obert plays a mean old-time fiddle, sometimes with a Cajun flare and sings a solid high tenor. Rob Miller also writes songs, plays the D28 and sings lead and harmony.
Shelley Gray plays the 'ol kay Bass, sings, hollers, and puts the "Sweet" in Sweet Sunny South. Audiences can expect a highly entertaining stage show featuring rollicking fiddle tunes, soulful ballads, tight vocal harmonies and an exceptional array of original
songs combined with a heavy dose of humor that keeps the crowd smiling. They have recorded 4 unique and entertaining CDs which are receiving heavy airplay across the country. Transport yourself back to the glory days of the Grand Ole Opry and experience Sweet Sunny South dressed to a "T", weaving in and out around a single
microphone presenting their style of old time music you wont soon forget!

FINDERS AND YOUNGBERG: They are two married couples playing original bluegrass, country, and folk with the same grin and snarl that made this music important to begin with. Mike and Amy Finders (say finn-ders), and Aaron and Erin Youngberg are four distinct musicians, merging
styles, songs, voices and grooves in an interplay that is exhilarating, gratifying, and often hilarious. They are young veterans of the folk and bluegrass circles, and play banjo, harmonica, bass, mandolin, pedal steel, and guitar, while they sing new songs, and tell new stories. The songs are sticky. Some of them have won awards. The singing is heart-felt, full of beauty and power. They perform "with a punch and transparent immediacy that effectively places the privileged listener smack-dab in the middle of an intimate, front-parlor guitar pull." - Jim Musser
Although F & Y is new, the four musicians have played all over the country in groups known for radio friendly recordings, stellar stage shows and notable awards. Hit and Run Bluegrass, Billy Pilgrims, Uncle Earl, and Mike and Amy's decade long career together have sharpened the axes of these wood-choppers, leaving them poised to produce their warmest, most honest work to date in Finders and Youngberg. Where they first met was Chicago, 2005. Mike and Amy were touring with their band and opened a show for the Hit and Run Bluegrass Band, featuring the soon-to-marry-and-share-both-names Youngbergs. As the Iowa-based Mike and Amy found themselves needing a banjo and bass player for some Colorado gigs, it
was fated that the quartet continued to hook up for shows in Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska. In 2008, amidst continued work with their other bands (Mike and Amy Finders Band and the Billy Pilgrims), the four decided to make an album together. The album, Finders and Youngberg: "Keep Your Suitcase Packed" was recorded in two week-long sessions early in 2008 at Youngberg's own Swingfingers Recording Studios in Fort Collins, Colorado. It features songs by Mike Finders and Erin Youngberg, Amy Finders'much-lauded vocalizing, and the rock-steady
banjo and steel of Aaron Youngberg. Material on the CD weaves through relationship themes (no surprise with a double-couple band), tales of older times, a few songs about Iowa and Colorado, while the band keeps orchestration simple and intimate. Since then, the Finders have relocated to Fort Collins, CO, joining the Youngbergs, and the afour have been busy touring Colorado and the Midwest, including shows at the Iowa Arts Festival in Iowa City, IA, and the Boulder Theatre, Boulder, Colorado. Their CD continues to gain airplay on regional and nationally syndicated
radio programs.

LEO KOTTKE: is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies. Kottke has overcome a series of personal obstacles including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand to emerge as a widely-recognized master of his instrument.
Focusing primarily on instrumental composition and playing, Kottke has sporadically moved in a vocal direction, singing in an unconventional yet expressive baritone famously self-described as sounding like "geese farts on a muggy day".[1] In concert, Kottke intersperses humorous and often bizarre monologues with vocal and instrumental selections from throughout his career, played solo on his signature 6- and 12-string guitars.

PATTY LOVELESS: Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self-titled album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and Bluegrass genres.
Loveless rose to stardom thanks to her blend of honky tonk and country-rock, not to mention a plaintive, emotional ballad style. Her late-1980s records were generally quite popular, earning her comparisons to Patsy Cline, but most critics agreed that she truly came into her own as an artist in the early 1990s.
To date, Loveless has charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including five Number Ones. In addition, she has recorded fourteen studio albums (not counting compilations); in the United States, four of these albums have been certified platinum, while two have been certified gold.

TICKETS for Saturday and Sunday and 2-day festival passes will go on sale shortly. For more information please call GapWest Broadcasting at 307-266-5252 or visit www.beartrapsummerfestival.com

Ticket Info

Saturday Arm Band $20.00
Sunday Arm Band $25.00
Festival Pass (Advance Only) $40.00
Children 7-12 $5.00 per day
Children 6 and Under Free

Senior Discount
Saturday Arm Band $15.00
Sunday Arm Band $20.00
Festival Pass (Advance Only) $30.00

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