Borrowed Blue, Caught Red Handed to play at NIBROC Festival

Two regional musical acts have been announced for this year’s NIBROC Festival — a tried and true rock-n-roll favorite and an up-and-coming, high-energy country quintet.

Friday night of the festival will take on a down-home, country music flavor. Kentucky country-rock upstarts Borrowed Blue will bring their own brand of bold, boot stomping flair to the main stage and are scheduled to be the evening’s main entertainment.

“I’ve heard them and kind of followed them and know they have a good following of fans,” said Bruce Carpenter, Executive Director of the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. The chamber organizes the NIBROC Festival.

“They seem to kind of fit in with the sort of acts that have been successful at NIBROC in the past. They are out trying to build a name for themselves and I think people will enjoy what they bring to the festival.”

Borrowed Blue was founded in 2010 and comprised of vocalist Matt Cooper, guitarists Jordan Latham and Jay Gregory, bass player Scottie Morrow and Brandon Davis on drums.

Hailing from the Lake Cumberland area, the band members are all from Kentucky.

“In addition to truly being friends, our strongest link is our commitment to one another—that’s what makes this band work,” said Latham about the band’s cohesiveness and vision.

“Our unique personalities bring the group together to make it whole. Matt is unwavering — ‘steady-as-she-goes,’ Brandon is the ‘igniter,’ a fined-tuned engine, Jordan has a calibrated mind — he’s deliberate — and as the oldest, I think, I help to keep us grounded,” said Gregory.

The band is touring in support of their self-title EP.

More information on Borrowed Blue can be found online at www.borrowedbluemusic.com.

NIBROC regulars Caught Red Handed, based in the Lexington area, will take the main stage on the closing night of the festival

Aug. 9. The band excels at renditions of rock-n-roll favorites and classic tunes, dubbing themselves “The Band for All Occasions.”

“They’ve always been popular in the past. People seem to really like them and they put on a great show,” Carpenter said.