Updated 09/11/2007
2007
AREA JAMS, FESTIVALS, AND CONTESTS
(confirm all event dates and locations before traveling)
March 3-4
June 1-2, July 27-28,
September 28-29 Phil Campbell Bluff Creek
October 5-6 Athens Tennessee Valley Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention rmould@athens.edu
January 22, February 26, March 26, April 23, May 14, June 25, July 23, August 27, September 24, October 22, November 26 Paragould KASU’s Bluegrass Mondays at Atkins Celebration Hall, 101 South Pruett Street 870.972.2367 mscarbro@astate.edu
March 8-10 Mountain View Mountain View Spring Bluegrass Festival 870.269.2542 www.mountainview-bluegrass.org
March 31 Fort Smith Bluegrass On The Border 479.785.4677 ksmith@kistlercenter.org or www.kistlercenter.org
April 11-14, June 13-16, and October 10-13 Waldron Turkey Track Festivals turkeytr@valuelinx.net or www.turkeytrackbluegrass.com
April 19-21, June
21-23, and September 13-15 Otto
May 3-5 Wynne Village Creek State Park Pickin’ To participate, call Joy/Vernon Horton 870.238.3853 villagecreek@arkansas.com
July 5-7 and September 20-22 Adona Cypress Creek Bluegrass Festival scenarecords@aol.com 816.246.0180 or 901.491.3516
August 2-4 Center Ridge Wooten Brothers Bluegrass Show at
August 23-25 Bee Branch
Fairel Pierce 501.920.9534
August 23-26 Eureka Springs Eureka Springs Bluegrass Festival 479.981.0404 www.eurekaspringsbluegrassfestival.com or bwohr@ipa.net
September 21-22 Ozark Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival www.mulberrymountainmusic.com
April 20-22 Dahlonega Bear on the Square Bluegrass Festival www.bearonthesquare.org
May 17-19 Cochran Hillside Bluegrass Festival www.hillsidebluegrass.com
June 1-3 Bedford Little Grantville Bluegrass 812.277.1705 littlegrantville@yahoo.com or www.kiva.net/~cowpie9/
June 9-16, August 2-4, August 30-September 1, September 19-22, and October 4-7 Bean Blossom Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festivals www.beanblossom.com
July 13-14 and August
13-14
February 10 Renfro Valley Winter Valentine Bluegrass Festival www.renfrovalley.com
April 20-21
April 28-29
June 1-2 Owensboro Yellowbanks Dulcimer Festival yellowbanks@bellsouth.net
June 7-10 Lexington
Festival of the
June 8-9
June 21-23 Owensboro River of Music Party (ROMP) www.riverofmusic.org
June 22 Renfro Valley Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival www.renfrovalley.com
August 31 Renfro Valley Renfro Valley Fiddler’s Festival www.renfrovalley.com
September 7-8
September 11-15 Morehead Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival www.poppymountainbluegrass.com
September 27-30 Rosine Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration, Bill Monroe’s Ancestral Farm and Homeplace 270.274.9181 docmercer@earthlink.net
February 8-10, April 19-21 and September 20-22 Angie Great Southern RV Bluegrass Event 985.986.8411 or tradecenter2005@bellsouth.net
March 19-21 and October 4-6 Oak Grove North Louisiana Bluegrass Festival 318.428.5282 needfoundation_communitycenter@yahoo.com
April 13-14 and
October 12-13 Ragley
Long Pine
May 26 and October 27 Lafayette Bluegrass at
January 11-12 Polkville Polkville Camp & Jam Polkville Music Barn 601.946.0280 or 601.955.9182
January 13 Polkville
March 9-10
March 17-19 Tylertown
April 10-14 Leakesville Two Rivers Bluegrass Festival Greene County Rural Events Center 601.408.5965 or two_rivers_festival@tripod.com
April 27-28 Polkville MSBA Spring
August 31-September 1
February 23-24 and
November 16-17
March 9-11 St. Louis St. Louis Flatpick 314.831.6406 or www.stlflatpick.com
April 13-14 Eminence Cross Country Trail Ride Bluegrass Festival www.crosscountrytrailride.com
May 24-27 and August
30-September 2
April 19-22 Saxapahaw Redbud Festival 919.563.1465 cagle6@juno.com or www.redbudfestival.4t.com
April 26-29 Wilkesboro MerleFest Wilkes Community College 800.343.7857 merlefest@wilkescc.edu or www.merlefest.org
May 5
June 1-2 Mt. Airy Bluegrass & Old-time Fiddlers Convention www.mtairyfiddlersconvention.com/
June 3-9 Mars Hill Blue Ridge Old-Time Music Week 828.689.1167 www.mhc.edu/oldtimemusic/
June 14-16 and August
16-18 Cherokee NC State
April 26-29
June 6-9 McAlester Sanders Family Bluegrass Festival 918.423.4891 or www.sandersfamilybluegrass.com
August 24-25
405.391.2338
August 31-September 1 Grove 10th Annual Jana Jae Fiddle Camp and Music Festival
800.526.2523
September 7-8 Claremore Bluegrass & Chili Festival www.claremore.org or
918.341.2818
February 2 Nashville SPBGMA Workshop: Pete Wernick-Steve Huber www.geocities.com/jackhatfieldmusic/workshops
February 2-4 Nashville SPBGMA Awards and National Convention Sheraton Music City Hotel 660.665.7172 spbgma@kvmo.net or www.spbgma.com
March 2-4 Lebanon Breakin’ Up Winter www.nashvilleoldtime.org/BUW
March 23-24
April 21 Holladay West
April 20-22 Gatlinburg Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy 865.428.8063 www.hatfieldjnhatfield@chartertn.netmusic.com (click “workshops” link)
May 4-5 Bartlett BPACC/Lucy Opry Pickin’ Picnic www.bpacc.org, www.lucyopry.com
May 5 Cookeville Railroad Rendezvous Springfest & Dobros at the Depot www.rrspringfest.com/
May 18-19 Williston Jackson Area Plectral Society Festival jameslpatrick@hotmail.com or www.geocities.com/Nashville/9158/
June 10-17 and 17-24 Maryville Maryville College Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Kamps www.flatpik.com
June 27-30
July 6-7 Smithville Fiddler’s Jamboree 615.597.8500 www.smithvillejamboree.com
July 29-August 3 Nashville NashCamp Bluegrass Camp 615.952.2267 nashcamp@nashcamp.com or www.nashcamp.com
August 23-25 Sevierville Seventh Annual Bluegrass in the Smokies Bluegrass Festival www.bluegrassinthesmokies.com or Jeremy/Sarah Fritts: 423.345.3510
September 7-8
September 7-8 Loudon Smoky Mountain Fiddlers’ Convention 865.458.3036
September 29
October 1-7 Nashville IBMA World of Bluegrass www.ibma.org
October 11-14 Norris Tennessee Fall Homecoming museumappalachia@bellsouth.net
October 13-14 Elizabethton Slagle’s Pasture Bluegrass Festival – Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area 423.543.5808 slaglespasture@hotmail.com or www.lessons4you.com/slaglespasture.reunion.htm
November 8-11 Nashville ResoSummit
Scarritt-Bennett Center (
Weekly Saturdays Lyles (near
Monthly 2nd
Saturday Gainesboro Little Opry—
March 17 Grapevine Southwest
March 29-April 1 Glen Rose
April 28
May 24-26 and
September 13-15 Texarkana Bluegrass Festival Texarkana RV Music Park
903.255.0408 or musicfriends@gmail.com
May Festival cancelled due to health emergency. Pickers welcome
to come in and jam.
May 25-27 and August
30-September 2 Grapeland Annual Gospel Bluegrass and Bluegrass
Festivals at
May 31-June 2 Tom Bean/Sherman Melody Ranch Bluegrass Festival 903.893.3212 banjoman@cableone.net
June 20-23 Canton Freestate Bluegrass Festival 800.243.6502 info@bluegrasscanton.com or jimfll@aol.com
Monthly 4th
Weekend Woodville Triple
Creek RV Park
409.283.3642 or 409.283.3799 www.triplecreekrv.com or tripleck@swbell.net
July 27-28 Roanoke FiddleFest Hollins University Workshops: individual instruction, pro-jams, slow-jams for beginners, concert performance 866.883.9466 or 540.366.4616 www.roanokefiddlefest.org
Weekly Saturdays
Some Additional
Websites:
http://www.tnvacation.com/browse_events Tennessee Vacations
http://www.see-tennessee.com Important Tennessee Events
http://www.cookevillechamber.com
http://www.bluegrassmusic.com Bluegrass Unlimited
http://www.bluegrassnow.com Bluegrass Now
http://www.moreheadstate.edu/kctm
http://www.ozarkfolkcenter.com The
http://www.neabluegrass.bravehost.com/ Northeast Arkansas
http://www.carterfamilyfold.org/future.htm The Carter Family Fold
http://www.museumofappalachia.com The
http://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org The Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
http://www.wvfest.com
http://www.stringsintheozarks.com
http://www.cbaontheweb.org California Bluegrass Association
http://www.brendasbluegrassupdates.4t.com
More Good Websites:
http://www.bbbregion.org/event_cal.html
http://www.sabinebluegrass.com
http://www.southwestbluegrassclub.org DFW and East TX
http://www.centraltexasbluegrass.org
http://www.sebabluegrass.org
http://spokanebluegrass.org WA State Bluegrass
http://www.mtbluegrass.com MT Bluegrass
http://www.washingtonbluegrassassociation.org WA State Bluegrass
http://www.oregonbluegrass.org OR
http://www.nwbluegrass.org
http://www.southwestpickers.org Southwest Traditional and Bluegrass Association
http://www.s-w-b-a.com
http://www.ibma.org International Bluegrass Music Association
http://www.spbgma.com Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America
http://www.indygrass.com Independent Bluegrass and Old-Time Music
http://www.folkjam.org Jam Locator
http://www.voicesofthesouth.org Voices of the South
http://www.fiddlersgreenmusicshop.com
http://www.thecrookedroad.org
http://www.blueridgecountry.com Magazine Exploring the Mountains of the South
http://jimandjesse.com/resources/Pickinn.php Jesse McReynolds’ Pick
http://www.jbott.com/index.html Jim Bottorff’s Banjo Page
http://www.songofthemountains.org Tim White’s PBS Radio Show