By Angela Hatton
Owensboro, KY – Advance ticket sales indicate a big crowd for this year's Bluegrass Roots and Branches Festival in Owensboro. International Bluegrass Music Museum Executive Director Gabrielle Gray says more than 3,200 tickets had been sold for the June 23-25 event. Gray tells the Messenger-Inquirer 654 tickets were sold in advance of last year's festival. She says performances by Steve Martin and Emmylou Harris are driving most of the advance sales locally, but tickets have been sold in 32 states and three countries.