Longer days = more time at Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ Festival

It's the bluegrass event of the year! Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ Festival starts Thursday, May 10, 2012 and runs through Sunday, June 3, 2012. They've added more days, more bands and more barbecue to the event.

See top artists and award-winning performers in bluegrass today:

• Rhonda Vincent & the Rage
• The Grascals
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
• the Kruger Brothers
• And more!

Plus, see the top up-and-coming bands in bluegrass:

• Gibson Brothers
• Balsam Range
• Little Roy & Lizzy
• Jerry Butler and the Blu-J's
• the bluegrass comedy kings, The Cleverlys 
• and more!

You know you'll get hungry while there, so seek out The House of BBQ, the Rib Feast, Hundreds of Sauces and the new visiting BBQ Connoisseurs, Richard's Hawgwild BBQ out of Aurora, Missouri and Dickey's Barbecue Pit, based in Texas. Yum!