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Big Howdy Bluegrass Showcase Featuring Jay Armsworthy
04 Oct
Saturday 10/04/2025    
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Hank Dietle's Tavern
From California, Maryland, Jay Armsworthy has been performing, promoting, and airing Bluegrass music for 37 years. He started playing guitar by the age of 10 [...]
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Southern Maryland Bluegrass Concerts
05 Oct
Sunday 10/05/2025    
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Calvert Elks Lodge
The Seldom Scene
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Nothin’ Fancy - Season Opener
11 Oct
Saturday 10/11/2025    
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Lucketts Community Center
A crowd favorite, Nothin’ Fancy opens a new season of bluegrass at the Old Lucketts Schoolhouse. A fixture on the bluegrass scene, they entertain and [...]
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Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
11 Oct
Saturday 10/11/2025    
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Franklin Park Performing & Visual Arts Center
Multi-Grammy nominated Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen is a torrent of mind-blowing bluegrass. Known for their meaty pile-driving rhythms and Frank’s dynamic and bold vocals, [...]
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Community Forklift Salvage Soiree with Cherry Blossom Special
16 Oct
Thursday 10/16/2025    
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Community Forklift
Community Forklift is celebrating 20 years of service and sustainability through reuse! The event will feature food from 2Fifty BBQ, open bar, and a performance [...]
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Fall Fundraiser Pick-nic & “Bluegrass Birthday Bash”
Fall Fundraiser Pick-nic & “Bluegrass Birthday Bash”
Sunday 10/19/2025    
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Hope Flower Farm & Winery
Sunday October 19, 2025  12-4 pm This year’s DCBU Fall Fundraiser Pick-nic is dedicated to celebrating a pillar of the DC bluegrass community, Lisa Kay [...]
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Washington Folk Festival
19 Oct
Sunday 10/19/2025    
12:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Glen Echo, MD
The Washington Folk Festival returns this year after a one-year hiatus on October 19, 12noon to 8:30pm. Now a one-day event, expect a jam-packed roster [...]
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Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct
Sunday 10/19/2025 - Sunday 11/16/2025    
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Private residence
If you play one of the bluegrass instruments (guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dobro) and would like to play with others, but don’t know where [...]
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Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys – Sunday Matinee
26 Oct
Sunday 10/26/2025    
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Lucketts Community Center
Join us for a special Sunday matinee! Son of a bluegrass legend, Ralph Stanley II has certainly earned respect as an artist in his own [...]
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Bluegrass Fiddling Workshop with Bebe Blumenthal
27 Oct
Monday 10/27/2025    
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
School of Musical Traditions
Learn essential techniques and concepts of Bluegrass Fiddling with teacher Bebe Blumenthal. The goal of this class is to go beyond the basic melody of [...]
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Events on Saturday 10/04/2025
04 Oct
Big Howdy Bluegrass Showcase Featuring Jay Armsworthy
4 Oct 25
Rockville
Events on Sunday 10/05/2025
05 Oct
Southern Maryland Bluegrass Concerts
5 Oct 25
Prince Frederick
Events on Saturday 10/11/2025
11 Oct
Nothin’ Fancy - Season Opener
11 Oct 25
Leesburg
11 Oct
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
11 Oct 25
Purcellville
Events on Thursday 10/16/2025
16 Oct
Community Forklift Salvage Soiree with Cherry Blossom Special
16 Oct 25
Edmonston,
Events on Sunday 10/19/2025
Fall Fundraiser Pick-nic & “Bluegrass Birthday Bash”
Fall Fundraiser Pick-nic & “Bluegrass Birthday Bash”
19 Oct 25
Waterford
19 Oct
Washington Folk Festival
19 Oct 25
Glen Echo
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Monday 10/20/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Tuesday 10/21/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Wednesday 10/22/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Thursday 10/23/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Friday 10/24/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Saturday 10/25/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Sunday 10/26/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
26 Oct
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys – Sunday Matinee
26 Oct 25
Leesburg
Events on Monday 10/27/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
27 Oct
Bluegrass Fiddling Workshop with Bebe Blumenthal
27 Oct 25
Takoma Park
Events on Tuesday 10/28/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Wednesday 10/29/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Thursday 10/30/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park
Events on Friday 10/31/2025
19 Oct
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jamming Class
19 Oct 25
College Park