Merlefest videos on YouTube

With more than 75,000 music lovers in attendance – a great many with video recorders of some kind – it should come as no surprise that dozens of videos shot at Merlefest 2008 have popped up on YouTube.

Of course at such an eclectic festival, the offerings range from old time bluegrass…

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…to more experimental string music…

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… to the truly bizarre.

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See them all on YouTube.

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