Featured Photos: Freight & Salvage Grand Opening, Berkeley, CA - Aug. 27-30, 2009

With a history spanning 41 years and counting, Berkeley, CA's Freight & Salvage is the longest running nonprofit venue for folk and traditional music west of the Mississippi. Last week (8/27-30), fans and artists of the genre came from all across the country to attend the grand opening of its new home.

The new Freight & Salvage building is now in a proper theater space with all the trimmings. The 18,000-square-foot "green" building features state of the art sound, sight lines and lighting, and also includes classrooms.

Headlining the festivities were such names as Ramblin' Jack Elliott, David Grisman Quintet, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Bluegrass Intentions, and Rick Di Dia & Aireene Espiritu, as well as fiddlers Liz Carroll, Darol Anger and Alasdair Frazer with Natalie Haas.

This writer was on hand with cameras to catch some of the action, and here are the results.