The Wintergrass Bluegrass Festival started last night and runs through Sunday at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue, with more than 70 concerts scheduled. How do you choose? We narrowed it down to our favorite acts of the day.

Friday’s top pick: Steep Canyon Rangers, an award-winning quintet that played with comedian-banjoist Steve Martin over the past year. (Missed their Seattle concert? Here’s our review.) They ooze charm and talent, and come packaged as handsome, clean-cut Asheville, NC boys in gray pinstripe suits. Women swoon. See them at 8:15pm in the Grand Ballroom, and again at 10:50pm in the Evergreen “In the Pines” Ballroom.

Saturday’s top picks: Absynth Quintet, a young gypsy jazz/jam band from California, one of the more eclectic acts on the festival bill. Fans of Yonder Mountain String Band will like this fusion bluegrass: it’s high-energy, danceable funk with a banjo twang. They play at 9:30pm in the Regency Ballroom (plus two Friday shows: 9:15pm in the Regency Ballroom, and 11:30 in Twisted Cork).

Sunday’s top pick: The Seldom Scene, a legendary bluegrass quintet from the 1970s that still boasts its original banjoist (Ben Eldridge, now in his seventies) and one of the genre’s top male vocalists, tenor and mandolin player Lou Reid of Ricky Skaggs Band fame. They close out the festival at 4pm in the Grand Ballroom. (They also play Saturday at 4:15pm in the Grand Ballroom, and 11:15pm in the Evergreen Ballroom, with limited seating.)

Tickets are no longer being sold online or over the phone. But Culture Fiend embraces spontaneity, so if you’re near Bellevue this weekend, swing by anyway; tickets at the door are $55 (Friday), $70 (Saturday) and $35 (Sunday). Family, student, child, senior, and yes, Canadian discounts are available.