Welcome to the 2010 ORMF Trivia Challenge! The answers to our 35 questions, as well as the answers to the “Who’s Who?” portion, can be found on page B5 of this issue.

Take your best shot and have fun!

2010 ORMF performers:

Adam Ezra Group

The Bridge

Dangermuffin

Elephant Revival

Head For the Hills

Matt Lewis Band

Pert Near Sandstone

Robin Kessinger and Karl Hepler

Seven Nations

Town Mountain

Ben Treffer

Tyler Stenson, who will give a Pre-Festival concert tonight.



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Trivia Challenge

1. Which is the only band that mentions a food in its title?

2. This artist hails from Nebraska.

3. What group has its beginnings in Minneapolis?

4. Springville, Utah is the home of this band.

5. What is the only animal mentioned in the title of one of this year’s ORMF bands?

6. Which band is the only one to feature a bagpipe player?

7. This performer was a former college athlete.

8. Which performer is the only one in this year’s lineup that plays the harmonica?

9. What ORMF instrumentalist has been a major influence on this younger up and coming guitarist, also on the ORMF lineup this year?

10. Which group is the only one with female members?

11. This group has performed at the Prairie Home Companion.

12. Which band originated in North Carolina?

13. What artist was chosen as the Performing Songwriter of the Year by the Portland Songwriters’ Association just this year?

14. Who has been the ORMF headliner for most every year of the festival since its beginnings?

15. What band has performed with and/or supported such great musicians as: Emmylou Harris, Nickel Creek and Bruce Hornsby?

16. What performer’s name includes two names from the Bible?

17. This artist was born in Wyoming.

18. This group is known for their crazy “non-stop touring” habits.

19. What guitarist had his musical start playing the piano?

20. Which band has the only saxophone player?

21. This group has given musical support to such artists as: Goo Goo Dolls, John Mayer, Pete Seeger, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffet, Aerosmith, Pete Francis, and Widespread Panic, just to name a few.

22. This band’s title came from a popular landmark near the city in which they live.

23. These two bands originated in Colorado.

24. Which band is the only one this year that plays mostly Celtic music?

25. What artist’s song entitled “The Football Song” is the unofficial fight song of the Chadron State College football team along with numerous other schools?

26. This quartet is known for wearing funky hats.

27. Which band is known to sometimes take the stage wearing kilts?

28. This artist is a national flatpick champion who has been featured on PBS.

29. They were recently voted as the Best Bluegrass Band in Colorado.

30. These guys have toured in Europe.

31. What bands or individuals are the only ones to have played at ORMF before? (HINT: There are 4 of them.)

32. This is the only trio found in this year’s lineup.

33. This group has a member who is an accomplished clogger and uses his clogs as an instrument.

34. What ORMF organizer’s image is featured on a life-sized cardboard standup known as Cardboard Mike, and which was stolen a few years back?

35. Where in the world is Cardboard Mike anyway?

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