Palouse fest books local musical acts

The annual Palouse Music Festival returns Saturday, July 27, to Hayton-Greene Park along the river in Palouse.

With seven musical acts, food, a beer garden and craft sellers, the day will run from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and culminate with Blue Highway, a veteran rock and country band based in Palouse.

To open the festival, on a flatbed trailer under shade trees, Paul Smith begins with an hour on fiddle. Next is the Cherry Sisters Revival of Moscow, which began with three ukuleles and songs from the 1940s and 50s before expanding to a repertoire of Americana on banjo and guitar.

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