Last year, I meant to get out to the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival… and then something came up.

This year I made the trip – and boy am I glad I did. It’s the Lollapallooza of bluegrass at the Congress Theater.

Set to remember: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Why? Siberian throat singers and the mad fiddle of fellow Homewood-Flossmoor (go Vikings!) grad Casey Driessen (he’s only gotten better since graduation ;)