Beartrap Summer Festival

Well, it might not be the most exciting of topics for the average bear, but for these young'uns at Beartrap Summer Festival, moulting happened to be a topic they knew and wanted to talk about. Jim and Samantha from Birdie Bayou in Casper brought out their parrots, big and small, to teach kids more about their feathered friends...

When Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes took the stage at the 2014 Beartrap Summer Festival, there was one guy who popped up to his feet and got down with his bad self. He was in such a good mood, dancing the night away, that the band even pointed him out multiple times during their performance...

Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes brought Beartrap Summer Festival 2014 to a close with a combination of percussion, strings and brass---saxophone and trumpet notes belted into the audience as the group performed for more than an hour and a half...

Johnny Sketch and The Dirty Notes belted out a rhythmic jazz with saxophones, guitars, bass and guitars Saturday night, as they took the stage as the last performance of the evening. Beartrap Summer Festival closed out the day with a group of festival goers dancing, eating, and generally having a good time...

This may be the only festival you attend this summer where your four-legged friend is just as welcome as your neighbor, kid, or spouse. Yep--Beartrap Summer Festival welcomes Fido. And in the spirit of having dogs attend the festival, we thought a photo gallery of some faces that stopped to give us a sniff and a wag would be appropriate...

Multi-talented Spencer Bohren wasn't afraid to pass along the microphone to fellow acts at Beartrap Summer Festival this year---especially when they happen to be his talented family. Take a peek at the various performers, as well as Bohren himself, in the photo gallery below...

Typically a duo team, the Tremors bring an awful lot of bluegrass sound to the Beartrap Summer Festival stage with a mix of expertise and love for the music. Take a look at the second band to take the stage this afternoon at #beartrap in the photo gallery below...

Spencer Bohren is mighty talented himself--but at the Beartrap Summer Festival, he highlights a range of voices that complement his own. Probably because they're his family. Check out this Buddy Holly song that he performs with his daughter...

Tremor, a bluegrass duo, hits the afternoon stage at Beartrap Summer Festival with a handful of fast-paced songs that'll make you two-step in your lawn chairs. Check out this video of the third song in their set that has a distinctly upbeat tune...

Modern vintage--good descriptors for The Likes Of Us, who hit the stage Saturday morning at the 2014 Beartrap Summer Festival. The six-member group says they want to transport people back to a simpler time in bluegrass music. Their more modern tunes draw in younger audiences, while their modern jazz renditions speak to the more mature audiences alike...

Their whole goal? To transport you back in time--to simpler, more melodic days, where vintage meets modern meets bluegrass. The Likes Of Us were second to take the stage at Beartrap Summer Festival this year. Right before their third song, they asked the crowd, "Do we have any Katy Perry fans...

The Littlest Birds described their music as a mix of old--nostalgia, poems and quotes--with modern fingerings on both the cello and banjo. The duo has a fondness for the song 'Dragonfly,' which was originally a poem. The Littlest Birds took the stage first to kick-off the 2014 Beartrap Summer Festival on Casper Mountain...