Bluegrass festival brings summer fun to Medical Lake

MEDICAL LAKE – The annual Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival is coming back to Waterfront Park in Medical Lake August 11-13. According to organizers the weekend will be filled with live music, music workshops and vendors galore.

Blue Waters is a non-profit group that started in 2002 that puts the show on every year, except for a brief two-year hiatus through the COVID pandemic.

Being a non-profit means the group is fully funded by donations and community support. According to the Blue Waters President Nick Burgis, the group has tried getting grants to help fund the show.

He said they were unsucces...