Hot dang! You can satisfy your hankerin’ for fine fiddlin’ and guitar pickin’ — and try some tasty home brewin’ — at Brewgrass, the sixth annual bluegrass and microbrew celebration Friday and Saturday at five downtown honky-tonks.

Admission to this joint cover hoedown, sponsored by the Anacortes Restaurant Trades Association, is $8.

Music is 9 p.m. to midnight both nights at the Rockfish Grill, Brown Lantern Ale House, Star Bar and Watertown Pub and Grill, and 8-11 p.m. at Adrift.

Friday, you can see Cabin Fever at Adrift, Bentgrass at Brown Lantern, the Wiretappers at the Rockfish, the Duntons at Star Bar and the Stilly River Band at the Watertown.

On Saturday, it’s John Lilly at Adrift, Twenty String Band at the Brown, Northern Departure at the Rockfish, Pearly Blue at Star Bar and Tall Timber Grass at the Watertown. On tap are 48 Pacific Northwest microbrews.

• Cabin Fever, the Bellingham duo of Dianne Bochsler and Tara Wolfe, performs true American roots music. Their compositions have won awards and media recognition, including play on NPR’s “Car Talk,” and their vocal harmonies are outstanding.

“Imagine Simon and Garfunkel singing with the Carter Family’s devotion,” said a reviewer on the Alternate Root.

Their playful energy is contagious as they capture the spirit of traditional folk with their straight-from-the-heart presentation. Boschler has been compared to Loretta Lynn and EmmyLou Harris, with a voice “pure and refreshing as iced tea on a hot summer day,” and Wolfe contributes vocals with a delicious rich quality suited for folk songs.

• Bentgrass, a Bellingham group, cites the usual bluegrass influences, plus whatever sounds please them — like Ozzy, the BeeGees and Jethro Tull. Their sets feature liberal samples of their favorite artists as well as a growing list of originals.

Vocals are by “the glacier songbird” Rayne B, and members play mandolin, guitar, banjo, tub and guitar.

• The Wiretappers grew out of alcohol-assisted jam sessions around bluegrass festival campfires and a convivial interest in three-part harmonies and experimental exploration.

Fusing bluegrass, jazz, swing, old country and funky folk, the Wiretappers create an upbeat, swinging style featuring great vocal harmony and virtuoso instrumentals — hot and tasty guitar licks, mandolin and mean fiddle grooves and solid upright bass.

• The Duntons, a Fidalgo Island bluegrass group, produce “some of the loveliest harmonies you’re likely to hear anywhere ... with all the beauty one’s soul can absorb,” said the Wooville Newsletter. Although they have received national acclaim, they choose to maintain a low-key career. The Grand Ole Orpy’s loss is Anacortes’ gain, as they are regular and popular performers here.

• The Stilly River Band has delivered an exciting range of music for decades — including bluegrass, progressive folk, Latin, Irish, rock and R&B.

Called “the bad boys of bluegrass,” the band plays an eclectic mix of traditional bluegrass and less conventional styles in a format dubbed “rude grass.” If you’re looking for a cross between Earl Scruggs and the Temptations, this is it.

The band features John Amber-Oliver on lead vocals and guitar and Jonathon Schneider on tenor harmonies and banjo, as well as artists on dobro, accordion, stand-up bass, mandolin and fiddle.

• John Lilly, a talented acoustic performer from Charleston, W.V., specializes in Americana, country roots and traditional folk. He can make new songs sound as old as the hills, and make older songs sound like they were made yesterday. One reviewer compared him to Hank Williams with a sunny disposition.

His song writing has won awards and his latest release, “Haunted Honky Tonk,” hit No. 1 on the Freeform American Roots and Euro Americana radio charts. A former member of the Green Grass Cloggers dance team, Lilly spent years playing traditional music with groups including Ralph Blizard and the New Southern Ramblers.

• 20 String Band typically includes Coty Hogue on vocals and banjo, Wyatt Winston on mandolin and vocals, Richard Reeves on bass, Aaron Guest on vocals and 12-string guitar and David “Swab” Lofgren on percussion. They create “gypsy-grass,” a whiskey-driven grass/roots fusion they promise will leave you happy, drunk and penniless in a barn.

• Northern Departure is a modern bluegrass band based out of Brier, Wash.

The members are Northwest bluegrass veterans. Austin McGregor (banjo, vocals), Derek Gray (acoustic upright bass, vocals) and Nick Dumas (mandolin, fiddle, vocals) spent many years with the acclaimed bluegrass band Three Generations. Chris Luquette (guitar, mandolin, vocals) plays in the VZ Valley Boys.

• Pearly Blue is a Northwest bluegrass group that specializes in a traditional mountain music. Members are veterans of top bands including the Dunton Sisters, the Ohop Valley Boys, the Downtown Mountain Boys and the Fossils.

Guitarist and Anacortes resident Barry Brower has been at the core of fine groups, including the Fossils. A bluegrass writer and historian, he was a longtime emcee of “Bluegrass Ramble” on KBCS. Jen Dunton switches from guitar to bass in Pearly Blue, but her sweet voice remains. Other members are Rich Jones on banjo, Pete Martin a champion fiddler who also plays mandolin and guitar and mandolin player Tom Moran.

• Tall Timber Grass is led by guitarist Don Mills, who played with the original North Carolina band, and played the festival circuit with Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley. Don Hitt sings tenor and plays a hard-driving, passionate banjo. Other players are on fiddle, mandolin and bass.

For full information on Brewgrass bands, visit anacortesrockfish.com/brewgrass.cfm.

Cap Sante Inn is offering a discount on lodging for Brewgrass patrons with an advance reservation. Call 293-0602.