Started in 1991, the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance is an annual festival held the second-to-last weekend of July in Trumansburg, New York, a small town ten miles north of Ithaca.

GrassRoots presents over 70 musicians, bands and dance troupes on four simultaneously running stages continually throughout the long weekend.

[1] GrassRoots was founded by popular Americana band Donna the Buffalo and celebrated its twentieth year in 2010.

In 2005 a "musicalmentary" about the festival titled Grassroots Stages was distributed nationally on PBS.

The film includes musical performances and interviews with festival organizers Jeb and Jordan Puryear.