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August 1 & 2, 2025 -- W.G. Lunney Lake Farm County Park
August 2 - 3
Ranking best lyrics from Sugar Maple act Pony Bradshaw
 

(Pony Bradshaw performs at Sugar Maple from 6:15-7:05 p.m. Friday.)

Six days after performing at the 20th annual Sugar Maple Music Festival in Madison Friday, Aug. 4, Americana star Pony Bradshaw will play for the first time on Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium.

It’s one of many stellar moments during Bradshaw’s yearlong tour to support his acclaimed album, “North Georgia Rounder.” Bradshaw hangs his hat – usually an Atlanta Braves cap, not a cowboy one – on soulful crooning and southern literature influenced lyrics.

Here’s a sampling of a few of his finest lines:

“Oh, we’re shaping little lies
On the tips of our tongues”
“Van Gogh”

“Put me in a ten-by-ten
And let me sit with all my sins”
“10×10”

“Daddy brought me back a bona fide gas mask
All the way home from Desert Storm”
“Safe in the Arms of Vernacular”

“Washed in the blood of the things we kill
Be it time, or man, or that big coal hill”
“Holler Rose”

“She danced a rustic dance, hallelujah on the mountain
Bucking to the rhythm of old Appalachia”
“Foxfire Wine”

“I wiped away the tears like they was flies on the melon”
“Holler Rose”

2025 Festival
22nd Annual Sugar Maple Traditional Music Festival
August 1st & 2nd, 2025
W.G. Lunney Lake Farm County Park
Madison, WI
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