31st Annual Grassroots Festival Begins with Culture Camp

Musician Jim Lauderdale with long grey hair and sunglasses performs on stage with an acoustic guitar, arms outstretched.
Jim Lauderdale performs on stage at the 31st Annual Grassroots Festival, which began with a culture camp in upstate New York.

The 31st Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance kicks off on Thursday, it’s Culture Camp is now underway.

Culture Camp is unique opportunity for folks leading up to the festival to immerse themselves in four days of all kinds of workshops of every instrument you can imagine according to Culture Camp coordinator Tara Nevins of host band Donna the Buffalo.

Culture Camp is three and a half days of workshops: dance, yoga, Culinary Arts and music.

Each day culminates with an authentic culturally themed dinner and a corresponding dance, open to all even if they’re not attending the workshops.

Dinner and the dance is $45 at the gate; just attending the dance is $18 at the gate. of dinner and dance.

The Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds begins Thursday and runs through Sunday night.

The crowd at the Infield Stage at the 2022 Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance Festival in Trumansburg, NY. Photo by Greg Cotterill, Finger Lakes Daily News.

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