The third evening of the First Annual JuneBug Festival of Music was as picture-perfect as the first two. The cold front spun around Northfield, leaving us cool but dry. Performances in order of appearance: Fish Frye, Loafers, Matthew Bunch, Gospel Gossip, Jon Manners, The Zillionaires.
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The second evening of the First Annual JuneBug Festival of Music was as picture-perfect as the first. The thunderstorms tracked north, leaving us with a gorgeous sunset and warm, starry night. Performances in order of appearance: Occasional Jazz, Blue Moon, Meredith Fierke, and Last Known Whereabouts.
See the album of two dozen photos, or this slideshow:
Performances today begin at 3 PM and include:
The First Annual JuneBug Festival of Music got underway last night with performances by Marty Anderson and the Goods and the RCAs (Rice County All Stars).


Left: the view of the new stage and the food tent adjacent to the back patio
Center: No, Norman wasn’t singing, thankfully. He was the occasional emcee.
Right: Contented Cow Operations Manager VanDeWalker; Manger Julie Bixby; proprietor Norman Butler
See the album of two dozen photos or this slideshow:
Tonight’s lineup:
The mobile stage for this week’s JuneBug is almost ready. The boys from Built by Johnson (Leigh Johnson and Charles Johnson) have constructed it over the past few days… and it was band-tested on Saturday night by Draper Daniels.

The Contented Cow is pleased to host the First Annual JuneBug Festival of Music, June 26-28, 2008. We’re constructing a special stage for the event, adjacent to our riverfront back patio.
Thursday, June 26
- Marty Anderson and the Goods
- RCAs
Friday, June 27
Saturday, June 28
Sundays:
Politics & A Pint 6pm
Northern Roots Session 7:30
Every Tuesday
Blue Grass & Old Time Jam
2nd & 4th Thursdays (7/10 & 7/24)
Study Hall with Peter and Terry
Fri. July 4 Waking Avalon
Sat. July 5 The Last Known Whereabouts
Fri. July 11 Bridge Water Ramblers
Fri. July 11th Kaethe & Peder’s Rehearsal Dinner. Congratulations!
Sat. July 12 Ira’s Jazz Quintet
Thurs. July 17 Alisa Leonard with Bo Aylin and Joel Cooper
Fri. July 18 The Frontline
Fri. July 25 Marty Anderson & The Goods
Sat. July 26 Bonnie and the Clydes
Thurs. July 31 Leslie and Andrew’s Rehearsal Dinner. Congratulations!
Every Sunday
- Politics & a Pint 6pm
- Northern Roots Session 8pm
First & Third Thursday
- Blue Grass and Old Time Jam
Second & Fourth Thursday
- Study Hall w/ Peter and Terry
Friday, June 6 Occasional Jazz 5pm - 7pm
Friday, June 6 Dolce 7pm - 8:45pm
Saturday, June 7 Spruce Top Review.
Friday, June 13 John Wills 6pm
Friday, June 13 Trace Remington 8:30pm
Saturday, June 14 Blue Moon
Thursday, June 19 Taste of Northfield. The Cow will be a food vendor.
Friday, June 20 Katie Harris & Baker London
Saturday, June 21 Draper Daniels
Thursday, June 26 - Saturday, June 28 Northfield’s First Annual JuneBug Festival of Music.

Sponsored by:
- NDDC (Northfield Downtown Development Corporation)
- Tiny’s
- Sitze Building owned by Ray Butler
- Chapati
- The Contented Cow
The list of musicians participating:
- RCAs
- Blue Moon
- Meredith Fierke
- Gospel Gossip
- Marty Anderson & The Goods
- The Zillionaires
- Occasional Jazz
- Jon Manners
- Dr. Jelly Fish
- The Loafers
- Fish Frye
- Last Known Whereabouts
Music starts at 7pm on Thursday, 5pm on Friday & 3pm on Saturday
Fri. May 30th The Norwegian Cowboy
Sat. May 31st Bonnie & The Clydes
Northfield JuneBug is the name of the upcoming three-day Festival Of Music in late June ‘08 on the Cannon River in Northfield, MN.

We’ve set up a website for it that anyone can link to. Details coming soon!
NorthfieldJuneBug.com