Sam Bush Concert History

Sam Bush (born: 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is a virtuoso American bluegrass musician. Bush plays mandolin, fiddle and guitar as well as being an accomplished bluegrass vocalist. He was a founding member of the New Grass Revival and has been called a modern day Bill Monroe. Sam is one of the main attractions at the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado. He is affectionately known as "The King of Telluride" for his perennial appearances there.

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Sam Bush Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026) (Page 26)

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 16, 2016
Guy Clark Tribute
"Guy Clark Tribute" / Emmylou Harris / Rodney Crowell / Terry Allen / Steve Earle / Ramblin' Jack Elliott / shawn camp / Sam Bush
Ryman Auditorium Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Aug 06, 2016
Sam Bush City Winery Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Jul 30, 2016
RockyGrass
"RockyGrass" / Sam Bush / Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / O'Connor Family Band / Tony Trischka / Nick Forster / Danny Barnes / The Slocan Ramblers
Planet Bluegrass Ranch Lyons, Colorado, United States
Jul 29, 2016 –
Jul 31, 2016
Rockygrass 2016
Punch Brothers / Sam Bush / Steep Canyon Rangers / Doyle Lawson And Quicksilver / Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn / Rhonda Vincent And The Rage / Sam Bush Bluegrass Band / Masontown
Planet Bluegrass Ranch Lyons, Colorado, United States
Jul 14, 2016
Sam Bush / Old Salt Union Old Rock House St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Jul 09, 2016
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Freight and Salvage Berkeley, California, United States
Jul 08, 2016
Sam Bush Crest Theatre Sacramento, California, United States
Jun 25, 2016
ROMP: Bluegrass Roots & Branches Festival
"ROMP: Bluegrass Roots & Branches Festival" / Old Salt Union / Old Crow Medicine Show / Della Mae / Billy Strings / Front Country / Sam Bush / Marty Stuart / Breaking Grass / Bumper Jacksons
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Yellow Creek Park Owensboro, Kentucky, United States
Jun 18, 2016
Telluride Bluegrass Festival
"Telluride Bluegrass Festival" / Leftover Salmon / Sam Bush / Ryan Adams / Yonder Mountain String Band / Tim O'Brien / Watchhouse / The Lil Smokies
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Telluride Town Park Telluride, Colorado, United States
Jun 12, 2016
Sam Bush

Bonnaroo

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Great Stage Park Manchester, Tennessee, United States
Jun 10, 2016
Blue Ox Music Festival
"Blue Ox Music Festival" / Greensky Bluegrass / Pert Near Sandstone / Sam Bush / The Wood Brothers / Blitzen Trapper / Head For The Hills / Charlie Parr / Sierra Hull / Dead Winter Carpenters / Whiskey Shivers / Useful Jenkins / Corpse Reviver
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The Pines Music Park Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States
Jun 09, 2016 –
Jun 12, 2016
Bonnaroo 2016
Steep Canyon Rangers / Amanda Shires / Sara Watkins / Polyenso / Mail the Horse / John Moreland / Ibeyi / Henry Wagons / Quaildogs / Ed Helms' Bluegrass Situation Superjam / SuperJam feat. Kamasi Washington / Roots of a Rebellion / Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires / M83 / Bully / Vulfpeck / CHVRCHES / LCD Soundsystem / Tame Impala / Anderson East / Chris Stapleton / Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats / The Claypool Lennon Delirium / Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit / Sam Bush / Dead & Company / Pearl Jam / Con Brio Show all bands
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Jun 04, 2016
John Hartford Memorial Festival
"John Hartford Memorial Festival" / Leftover Salmon / Sam Bush / Danny Barnes / Helen Highwater / Billy Strings / Gipsy Moon / Urban Pioneers / Dustbowl Revival / Old Man Luedecke / King's Highway / Deep Fried Pickle Project / Colin O'Brien / Steamboat Bandits / The Underhills / White Lightnin' Boys Show all bands
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Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground Bean Blossom, Indiana, United States
Jun 01, 2016 –
Jun 04, 2016
John Hartford Memorial Festival #6
The Whipstitch Sallies / Avocado Chic / Devil Train / Cornmeal / The Hillbenders: Play "Tommy" / The Steel Wheels / The Tillers / The Leadfoot Band / Caribou Mountain Collective / Chris Dollar / Georgia Rae Family Band / Woodland Remedy / Danny Barnes / Chicago Farmer / The Underhills / Old Man Luedecke / Donkey Nation / The Aching Hearts / Sloppy Joe / The Steamboat Bandits / Ernie Hill / The Scenic Roots / Jeff Daugherty / Sugar Britches / The Wheelhouse Rousters / Conservation Theory / Brushfire Stankgrass / The Weedeaters / Still Shine / Dr. President / Great American Taxi / The Dustbowl Revival / Flatland Harmony Experiment / The Travelin' McCourys / Billy Strings / The Dillards / Chatham County Line / Gipsy Moon / Chicago Farmer / Urban Pioneers / White Lightning Boys / Misty Mountain String Band / Leftover Salmon / JHMF All Star Jam / Sam Bush / Danny Barnes / Kings Highway / Pat Fiddles / Helen Highwater Stringband / Deep Fried Pickle Project / Colin O'Brien Show all bands
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Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground Bean Blossom, Indiana, United States
May 28, 2016
Sam Bush

DelFest

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Allegany County Fairgrounds Cumberland, Maryland, United States
May 27, 2016
Sam Bush

Rooster Walk 8

Pop's Farm Martinsville, Virginia, United States
May 21, 2016
"BBQ, Blues and Bluegrass" / Jonny Lang / Sam Bush / High Valley / Joe Louis Walker / Trout Steak Revival

BBQ, Blues and Bluegrass

Whirlpool Park Saint Joseph, Michigan, United States
Apr 30, 2016
MerleFest
"MerleFest" / Lindsay Lou / Andy May / April Verch Band / Ash Breeze / The Barefoot Movement / Becky Buller / Billy Strings & Don Julin / Bob Hill / Britt Gully Music / Bryan Sutton Band / Carbon Leaf / Carol Rifkin / Charles Welch / Clydes On Fire / Commonwealth Bluegrass Band / The Dave Rawlings Machine / David and Valerie Mayfield / Donna the Buffalo / Fireside Collective / Fruteland Jackson / Happy Traum / The Interactive Theater Of Jef / Jack Lawrence / Jeff Little / Jeni & Billy / Joe Smothers / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Laura Boosinger / Liz Frame and the Kickers / Mark Bumgarner / Mitch Greenhill / Penny & Sparrow / Pete & Joan Wernick / Roy Book Binder / Salvador / Scythian / Sherman Lee Dillon / Shinyribs / The South Carolina Broadcasters / Sparky & Rhonda Rucker / Stemwinder / Steve and Ruth Smith / String Madness / Sutton, Holt & Coleman / T Michael Coleman / The Commons / The Contenders / The Kruger Brothers / Local Boys / The Waybacks / Williams Brothers / The Wood Brothers / Tom Feldmann / Wayne Henderson / We banjo 3 / Westwend / Wood & Wire / Zoe & Cloyd / Will Overman Band / Alison Brown / Doug Seegers / Peter Rowan / Sam Bush / Jim Lauderdale / Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers / John Oates Show all bands
Wilkes Community College Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States
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Apr 16, 2016
Southern Ground Music and Food Festival
Zac Brown Band / Coy Bowles / Drake White & The Big Fire / Michael Franti and Spearhead / Old Dominion / Sam Bush / The Marshall Tucker Band / Thomas Rhett
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Musc Health Stadium Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Apr 16, 2016 –
Apr 17, 2016
Southern Ground Music & Food Festival 2016
Zac Brown Band / Thomas Rhett / Hunter Hayes / Kacey Musgraves / Michael Franti & Spearhead / Old Dominion / Marshall Tucker Band / Tedeschi Trucks Band / Bruce Hornsby / Cam / Jamestown Revival / A Thousand Horses / Sam Bush / Muddy Magnolias / Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers / Clay Cook / Packway Handle Band / Drake White & The Big Fire / Archetypes / John Driskell Hopkins / Coy Bowles & The Fellowship Show all bands
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Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Show Duplicate for Apr 16, 2016
Apr 10, 2016
Sam Bush Swyer Theatre Albany, New York, United States

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Peter Rowan and Sam Grisman - Old and in the Way, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 5, 2025

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025
Oct 3 - 5, 2025
 San Francisco, California, United States
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Peter Rowan and Sam Grisman - Old and in the Way, “Panama Red”, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 5, 2025

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025
Oct 3 - 5, 2025
 San Francisco, California, United States
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Peter Rowan and Sam Grisman - Old and in the Way, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 5, 2025

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025
Oct 3 - 5, 2025
 San Francisco, California, United States
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Courtney Barnett, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 4, 2025

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Oct 3 - 5, 2025
 San Francisco, California, United States
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MerleFest 2026 on Apr 23, 2026 [766-small]

MerleFest 2026
Apr 23 - 26, 2026
 Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States
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MerleFest 2026 on Apr 23, 2026 [765-small]

MerleFest 2026
Apr 23 - 26, 2026
 Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States
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MerleFest 2026
Apr 23 - 26, 2026
 Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States
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Sam Bush on May 30, 2026 [101-small]

Sam Bush
May 30, 2026
 Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Gathering Of The Vibes on Aug 3, 2008 [518-small]

Gathering Of The Vibes
Aug 3, 2008
 Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States
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Warren Haynes' Christmas Jam 15 on Dec 20, 2003 [795-small]

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Dec 20, 2003
 Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Zac Brown's Southern Ground Music & Food Festival (Charleston) on Apr 16, 2016 [454-small]

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Apr 16 - 17, 2016
 Charleston, South Carolina, United States
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Genres:

Folk
Country
Bluegrass
Americana
Jam Band
Newgrass
Progressive Bluegrass
Old-Time
Jamgrass
Mandolin
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Latest Setlist (05/30/2026):

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  1. One More Love Song
  2. Down Along the Cove
  3. Unconditional Love
  4. Little King
  5. Steamboat Whistle Blues
  6. Born to Be With You
  7. Broadway
  8. I'm Gonna Ride
  9. One Love
  10. Circles Around Me
  11. The Mahavishnu Mountain Boys
  12. Howlin' at the Moon
  13. Ground Speed
  14. State of Grace
  15. When You Gonna Wake Up?

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 38 concerts
2025 54 concerts
2024 41 concerts
2023 54 concerts
2022 77 concerts
2021 72 concerts
2020 18 concerts
2019 40 concerts
2018 47 concerts
2017 38 concerts
2016 44 concerts
2015 38 concerts
2014 40 concerts
2013 57 concerts
2012 54 concerts
2011 54 concerts
2010 68 concerts
2009 45 concerts
2008 64 concerts
2007 77 concerts
2006 62 concerts
2005 70 concerts
2004 23 concerts
2003 24 concerts
2002 43 concerts
2001 20 concerts
2000 6 concerts
1999 8 concerts
1998 7 concerts
1997 7 concerts
1996 5 concerts
1995 2 concerts
1976 1 concert
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