The Fourth Annual Midwest Mandolin Festival, presented by the Mandolin Society of Central Indiana, was held Saturday June 7, 2008, at Eagle Creek Park Earth Discovery Center (indoors due to record rainfall and flooding) in Indianapolis, 11:00am - 8:00pm. FREE with paid admission to the park ($5.00/car).
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For the first time this year we had 2 nationally known mandolin players! Rich DelGrosso and Andra Faye performed! Rich taught a blues mandolin workshop the following day, just before the Yank Rachell CD Release Party at the Indiana History Center in Indianapolis, click here for details. At the festival there were two FREE workshops by festival performers at 11:00am: Myra Dworski and Jon Hall taught a beginning mandolin workshop focusing on chords and back-up playing, and Jim Richter taught an intermediate level blues mandolin workshop. The following acts performed:

Mandolindy

Mandolin Orchestra

Johnandrew Bellner

Celtic

Deep Fryed Acoustiblasters

Bluegrass

il Troubadore

Indy's 16th Century Rock Band

Rich DelGrosso

Blues

Andra Faye

Blues

The Sloes

Progressive Acoustic

Mike Butler and Friends

Country Blues

CIFM&MDS Big Band

Traditional Folk and Old Time

Myra Dworski and Jon Hall

Vocal and Instrumental Duets

Gordon Bonham and Jim Richter

Blues

Mark Kurkowski and Mario Joven

Jazz

Hamilton Creek CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN

Bluegrass

Mando Commandos

Original boundary-stretching mandolin music

Slates Family Band

Down Home Music Served Up Family Style

Festival ends


Sponsored by Frank's Violins, Weed Patch Music, Andrew Jerman, Central Indiana Folk Music and Mountain Dulcimer Society, and Mark's Fret Shop. Sound by Slates Family Band Sound.