| The Pennington Festival will celebrate its 15th year in 2012 with a two-day line-up of music planned for Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2.
“We are planning for an awesome show and really want to celebrate 15 years of great music in Princeton,” said festival chair Stacey Menser.
The free festival, which has brought such acts as Tommy Emmanuel, Charlie McCoy, Bobby Bare, Nickel Creek and Junior Brown to the Butler Lawn, is a Princeton Art Guild event named in honor of the community’s first family of music, the Penningtons.
Eddie Pennington is considered the greatest thumbpicking style guitarist alive today and one of the greatest of all time.
He has received a National Heritage Fellowship Award, Kentucky Governor’s Award in the Arts, is a member of the Thumbpickers Hall of Fame and has been named National Thumbpicking Champion and Thumbpicker of the Year.
He has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was featured at the 1996 Olympics and is a regular performer at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention and Kentucky Derby Day Breakfast.
Eddie’s children, Alonzo and Rosebud, are also accomplished performers and are featured each year at the festival, along with Eddie’s grandson Caleb Coots.
While the Penningtons will take the stage this year, other performers already booked for the 2012 festival include classic Americana band The SongFarmers, up and coming folk singer Cheyenne Mize, popular Tennessee-based rock and soul Tim Lynch Band, punk bluegrass duo Hymn for Her and the hilariously entertaining Moron Brothers.
“The Moron Brothers are one of our most requested groups,” said Eddie Pennington.
The headline act is still to be announced.
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