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Today, the Momentary adds rising star Jaime Wyatt, breakout country music star Waylon Wyatt, 2X GRAMMY nominee Cha Wa, and critically acclaimed crossover band Mireya Ramos and the Poor Choices, to the lineup for FreshGrass | Bentonville 2025, a two-day, all-ages festival with the best in American and global roots music and folk traditions taking place on Friday, May 16th, and Saturday, May 17th. This year’s festival will also feature The Solar Roller, a one-of-a-kind portable solar-powered stage, and The House of Songs Presents: SongRider, an event that blends the art of songwriting with the scenic beauty of Northwest Arkansas' bike trails.

The 2025 festival will also feature GRAMMY Award winner Lukas Nelson, Americana Music Awards winner Shakey Graves, Afrobeat royalty Seun Kuti andamp; Egypt 80, rising star La Doña, 18x GRAMMY Award winner Béla Fleck with his brand new trio featuring Antonio Sanchez and Edmar Castañeda, as well as GRAMMY Award winner and American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame member Alison Brown, Jesse Welles, Sister Sadie, AJ Lee andamp; Blue Summit, Lost Bayou Ramblers, The Langan Band, and more. The diverse and exciting lineup combines with unique-to-FreshGrass elements like world premiers of special commissions, artist talks, instrument workshops, and square dances to create a festival experience unlike any other. The Bentonville experience will also feature The FreshGrass Awards: Band, which celebrate and reward five emerging local and regional bands who offer innovative interpretations of bluegrass and roots music traditions. Both finalists and winners will receive cash prizes, and the winner will get studio time at Compass Records in Nashville, as well a slot at next year's festival.

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Joining the festival as an artist-at-large will be Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal. Cash’s appearance at the Momentary holds special significance, as it coincides with the The Prison Concerts: Folsom and San Quentin (Jim Marshall’s Photographs of Johnny Cash) exhibition on display at the venue. Organized by the GRAMMY Museum, the exhibition features iconic photographs of her father from his historic Folsom and San Quentin prison concerts in 1968 and 1969.

Arkansas native folksinger Willi Carlisle will also return to FreshGrass as the 2025 recipient of the FreshGrass Composition Commission, performing new music written for this commission for the first time in public. Previous FreshGrass Composing Commission recipients include Rhiannon Giddens, Aoife O’Donovan, Sarah Jarosz, Kronos Quartet, and Bill Frisell.

Set among the beauty of the Ozarks, FreshGrass | Bentonville has welcomed over 20,000 attendees to the Momentary since its inception. Presented by the Momentary, past artists have included phenomenal talents from Billy Strings to Sierra Ferrell, Trombone Shorty, Jason Isbell, Mavis Staples, Del McCoury, Cimafunk, Caamp, Tank and the Bangas the GRAMMY Award winning Molly Tuttle andamp; Golden Highway, and a myriad of other national and local stars, Grammy-nominated artists, and internationally and nationally acclaimed musicians taking the stage over the weekend.

For more information and tickets, please visit theMomentary.org/FreshGrass.

FreshGrass | Bentonville is sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, Cox Communications, iHeart Media, and AMP Sign andamp; Banner.