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Charm City Folk & Bluegrass Festival Wrapup

What a perfect day for music. The scene was set in downtown Baltimore’s Druid Hill Park, next to the historic Rawlings Conservatory. Next to that picturesque Charm City structure is a natural amphitheater that the organizers of the festival used to create an intimate space. At 10:00 a.m. with trees beginning to green up after a long winter, one of bluegrass music’s up and comers took the stage, introduced by the kilt-clad John May - our Master of Ceremonies for the day. Grand Ole Ditch Grand Ole Ditch was a pleasant surprise. While they didn’t make the original festival poster and weren’t listed until a week or so before, they did however open the show in style and set a tone of fun and super-high quality music for the day. Polished, smooth and authentic, “Team Ditch” has a sound that is as iconic as it is wonderful, and every member of the band fits perfectly. According to their bio, they came together as six friends who simply wanted to play and explore bluegrass, b