When the Raleigh Wide Open Music Festival hosts its inaugural festival downtown on Friday and Saturday, organizers hope the vast majority of people won’t notice much of anything new at all.
Why it matters: After more than a decade in the City of Oaks, the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual conference and World of Bluegrass held its last festival in downtown Raleigh last year, decamping for Tennessee.
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- Raleigh Wide Open wants to pick up right where IBMA’s event left things — continuing a tradition of free bluegrass concerts up and down Fayetteville Street that tens of thousands of people became accustomed to….