The Princeton Art Guild volunteer organizers and local financial sponsors offer a two-day music festival on the Butler School lawn between Main and Washington Streets in downtown Princeton starting at 6 p.m. Friday and continuing through Saturday night. On Sounds Good, Kate Lochte speaks with the festival's namesake Eddie Pennington, the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Western Kentucky University, who is recognized among his peers as one of the greatest living thumb style guitarists. In venues throughout the United States and Europe, he has kept alive the sound popularized by Kentucky native Merle Travis in the 1940s.
The free festival features performances from The Beat Daddys, Jennifer Stokes, Miranda Louise, Alonzo Pennington Band, David Holt and many others.
Nationally recognized thumb picking guitarist Eddie Pennington's namesake folk festival brings artists he enjoys performing music this Friday night and all day Saturday on the lawn of Butler School in downtown Princeton. It's free, with music starting at 6 Friday, at 11 Saturday with the Talent Contest.
