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Photo © Marlene Laviale

Sunday 2nd August
Daytime Stage

When people reminisce about Bluegrass in France, it is not long before thoughts turn to Toulouse Bluegrass Festival, a legendary French event of the early 1980s. Our president remembers seeing a local Toulouse band there called Anouman. Relatively new to Bluegrass music at the time, he was struck by their modern approach to Bluegrass that he later understood was close to Dawg Music (after David Grisman).
The Portales brothers have not stopped playing together since then and 40 years later they have brought out a new album with their latest formation that includes the warm, mellow sound of the cello.
Their music today expertly explores the Dawg universe with touches from folk, jazz and classical music, and plenty of musicality and talent.

Musicians
Patrick Portales (guitar, fiddle)
Daniel Portales (mandolin, mandocello)
Hannah Al-Kharusy (cello)

Album
Rocky Lands (2025)

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