Medical Lake's Blue Waters Bluegrass festival is right around the corner

Grab your fiddles, banjos and guitars, your tents and lawn chairs, it’s family friendly bluegrass pickin’ time once again.

The 18th annual Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival is just around the corner and will soon be in full foot-stomping mode beneath the pines of Medical Lake’s Waterfront Park.

Billed as “quite possibly the best summertime bluegrass experience in the Northwest,” this year’s festival features a diverse cast of local to national bluegrass bands.

“If you’re a music fan you’re going to leave satisfied,” Nick Burgis, Blue Waters Festival president, said of the event. “It’s genuine art...