About The Back Porch Festival

The Back Porch Festival was founded in 2014 as a one day event at the Academy Of Music Theater in Northampton. It has since grown to a four day, multi-venue event featuring the best in Americana Roots Music. Performers have included Los Lobos, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Del McCroury & David Grisman, Sarah Jarosz, Dustbowl Revival, Tim O'Brien, Steep Canyon Rangers and many more. Every year the festival includes a live broadcast of the Back Porch radio show from the Parlor Room before a live audience. Back Porch Festival 2019 took place on March 1-3 and featured Rosanne Cash, Earls of Leicester, CJ Chenier and The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Town Mountain, Twisted Pine and others.