FreshGrass Festival Returns to Bentonville in 2025; Lineup Announced Today
Today, the Momentary announced the lineup for FreshGrass | Bentonville 2025, a two-day, all-ages festival with the best in American and global roots music and folk traditions taking place on Friday, May 16th and Saturday, May 17th.
The 2025 festival will feature an illustrious lineup of artists, including GRAMMY Award winner Lukas Nelson, Americana Music Awards winner Shakey Graves, Afrobeat royalty Seun Kuti, rising star La Doña, 18-time GRAMMY Award winner Béla Fleck with his brand new trio featuring Antonio Sanchez and Edmar Castañeda, as well as GRAMMY Award winner and American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame member Alison Brown, Sister Sadie, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Jesse Welles, Lost Bayou Ramblers, The Langan Band, and more.
The diverse and exciting lineup combines with unique-to-FreshGrass elements like world premiers of special commissions, artist talks, instrument workshops, band competitions, and square dances to create a festival experience unlike any other.
Also joining the festival as an artist-at-large will be Rosanne Cash. Her appearance at the Momentary holds special significance, as it coincides with the The Prison Concerts: Folsom and San Quentin (Jim Marshall’s Photographs of Johnny Cash) exhibition on display at the venue. Organized by the GRAMMY Museum, the exhibition features iconic photographs of her father from his historic Folsom and San Quentin prison concerts in 1968 and 1969.
Arkansas born folksinger Willi Carlisle returns to FreshGrass, this year as the 2025 recipient of the FreshGrass Composition Commission, performing new music written for this commission for the first time in public. Previous FreshGrass Composing Commission recipients include Rhiannon Giddens, Aoife O’Donovan, Sarah Jarosz, Kronos Quartet, and Bill Frisell.
More information about the Festival’s lineup and ticket information can be found HERE.
