Photo: Sarah Cahill
Kentucky may be known far and wide as the home of bluegrass music, but lately a certain band of another persuasion has been showing an increasingly national audience that the state has more to offer.
Since forming in late 2016, the Lexington-based Southern rock-and-blues outfit Magnolia Boulevard has quickly progressed from performing at sparsely attended local venues to selling them out. This past fall, the band’s fast rise to widespread success culminated in a 12-show run in November supporting the seminal rock band Blues Traveler. That tour, in conjunction with the help of a new professional management and booking team, has helped propel the group onto the lineups of some of the biggest music festivals of 2020, including the second annual Railbird Festival (Aug. 22-23) at Keeneland Race Course, here in their hometown… FULL ARTICLE