Bluegrass. The Independence Day weekend is fireworks on the highway, but this one might be quiet and mellow: three days of the Green Mountain Country Banjo Festival, July 4-6, 12 bucks for all three days including campsite, five bucks for each individual day, on Birdseye Mountain in Castleton, Vermont, on 800 acres, featuring Doc Watson, the world's premier flatpicker, with his son Merle, presumably doing "Tennessee Stud" like nobody can, and Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers. Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys, plus a lot of fine New England bluegrass bands. Disregard all reports of the New Riders' appearance as bogus. Call 802-863-3616 for information and campsite reservation.

John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. Country and western swing, with a new guitarist and a new fiddle player, at Bunratty's on Harvard Street in Allston tonight through the weekend.