'Have yourselves a Hangtown Ball" - Railroad Earth lyric.

Colorful costumes, joyous carousing, comfortable camping, and kick-ass jammy music of many genres came together nicely at the fifth annual Railroad Earth-hosted Hangtown Halloween Ball Music Festival. Emanating from the small Sierra Nevada foothill community of Placerville, California, the festival harmoniously balanced a confluence of dust-kicking music to groove by, the festive Halloween season, and the still-present old-West persona of Placerville, dubbed “Hangtown” during the Gold Rush days to honor the type of swift justice handed out to the worst of the miscreants. Review: www.gratefulweb.com/articles/hangtown-halloween-ball-2015-review

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