Rumpke Mountain Boys headline yet again

(Published: Aug 29, 2018)

One of the surest signs of the impending fall is the return of the long running Terrapin Hill Harvest Festival.

For a full weekend every autumn, the event takes over Terrapin Hill Farm in Harrodsburg with a packed lineup of progressive bluegrass, string music and jam-oriented acts from around the block and around the country.

Among the luminaries who have played the Harvest Festival over the past decade are The Del McCoury Band, Moon Taxi, Railroad Earth, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, The New Mastersounds and The Infamous Stringdusters. There have also been separate group appearances that have featured three members of the Grateful Dead — Mickey Hart (The Mickey Hart Band in 2012), Bill Kreutzmann (7 Walkers in 2011) and Tom Constanten (Dose Hermanos in 2010).

This year’s guests include Harvest Festival favorite the Rumpke Mountain Boys out of Cincinnati, which headline Saturday and Sunday, the Joe Marcinek Band from northwest Indiana and EGi from Chicago. As usual, the bill will also sport a hefty serving of homegrown grooves courtesy of The Wooks, Magnolia Boulevard and Restless Leg String Band.

Here’s the full schedule:

Friday (Aug. 31) — open mic (12:30 p.m.); Jonathan Scales Fourchestra (3 p.m.); Electric Garden (5 p.m.); Magnolia Boulevard (7:30 p.m.); The Wooks (10 p.m.); Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (12:30 a.m.).

Saturday (Sept. 1) — Leight July (11 a.m.); DJ Spellbinder (1 p.m.); Joe Marcinek Band (3 p.m.); Hyryder (5:30 p.m.); Henhouse Prowlers (8 p.m.); Rumpke Mountain Boys (10:30 p.m.); Devil Train (1 a.m.).

Sunday (Sept. 2) — Brother Smith (12:30 p.m.); Restless Leg String Band (3 p.m.); EGi (5:30 p.m.); Rumpke Mountain Boys (8 p.m.).