Bluegrass Parkway has just released details of our planned tour to the United States in June 2009. The details of the shows we will be playing are up on our 'Gig Page'. Our last US tour was in 2005 and this time we will be focusing our shows mainly within Kentucky. We will be venturing out to perform at Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom Festival in Indiana however. The other festivals included in our tour are The Festival Of The Bluegrass in Lexington Kentucky and ROMP 2009 in Owensboro Kentucky.

The tour is another relatively brief one but once again, we are cramming a heck of a lot into these three weeks with appearances at three festivals, concerts, a charity concert for a children's hospital, radio appearances and a performance at a very cool coffee house in Georgetown Kentucky that harks back to the 60s folk music cafe scene. Our first concert, about 36 hours after we arrive, is at the southland Jamboree in Lexington. This will be a bit of a homecoming for Maria and the crowd is sure to be packed with relatives and friends. What a great way to start the tour!

 We are hoping to run a bit of a journal as the tour progresses and Greg McGrath at australianbluegrass.com will be posting any entries we can organise. Hopefully these will include pics and clips as well as comments as we progress through the tour.

 For those of you who are into Youtube, we have put up a few clips from various appearances including the recent Peter Rowan concert in Fremantle. If you put Bluegrass Parkway into the search engine you should be able to find them. There is also a clip of Peter and Paul doing a duet; just put Peter Rowan and Paul Duff into the search engine for that one.

If you're in the area we will be performing at the Mount Beauty Muster on the Anzac Day weekend and the Merry Muse Folk Club in Canberra Friday May 1, then Ausgrass in Tumut on Saturday May 2. Come up and say hi!