This year's festival brings some of the finest acts in bluegrass today to the Collins Theatre stage for two days of outstanding musicianship in air conditioned comfort.

Schedule:

1:00 p.m

Lindley Creek
With the release of Lindley Creek's crittically-aclaimed debut album "Freedom, Love and the Open Road" in 2020, it marked the band's first venture onto the national Bluegrass scene. Since that point, they've continued their steady growth by showing up on the charts and also being nominated for multiple IBMA Momentum Awards. The follow-up is the sophomore release "Whispers In The Wind" which serves as the perfect next chapter. 

Donna Ulisse and the Poor Mountain Boys
Donna Ulisse is a key figure in the bluegrass, folk and acoustic music scene as a singer and songwriter. Her single "It Could Have Been The Mandolin" from the album Hard Cry Moon topped the Bluegrass Unlimited chart at #1 for two months in a row in 2016 and the album topped the Roots Music Report chart at #1. In 2016 she was awarded International Bluegrass Music Association's Songwriter of the Year and IBMA's 2017 Song of the Year for "I Am a Drifter" recorded by Volume 5. Albums and awards kept coming; in 2018 and 2022 she won the award for SPBGMA's Songwriter of the Year and also 2022's SPBGMA Female Vocalist of the Year! 

Breaking Grass
Known for their high energy performances and original material, this band delivers heartfelt music with haunting harmonies to match. With influences ranging from rock, gospel, country, and soul, this group of award-winning musicians brings something for everyone to each live show. Their new documentary "Down in Mississippi" and latest album "Somewhere Beyond" is now available on music and video outlets across the world. If you have never been a fan of bluegrass music, it might be because you haven't heard it quite like this. 

7:00 p.m

The Kody Norris Show
​While the reigning SPBGMA Entertainers of the Year are known for the rhinestones that shine from their lapels and the fringe that hangs from their collars seem to conjure up memories of times gone by, The Kody Norris Show are very much directing their gaze forever forward. Now, more than ever before. The talented group made up of frontman Kody Norris, Josiah Tyree, Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris, and Charlie Lowman, finds themselves with a growing legion of fans craving the comfort that comes from their retro look, but equally craving dynamic instrumentation and thought-provoking lyrics. 

​Appalachian Road Show
Appalachian Road Show is a visionary acoustic ensemble, bringing new-generation interpretations of traditional Americana, bluegrass and folk songs, as well as offering innovative original music, all presented with a common thread tied directly to the heart of the Appalachian regions of the United States. GRAMMY - nominated banjoist Barry Abernathy, joins forces with GRAMMY-winning fiddler Jim VanCleve, fresh off of his recent stint touring with multi-platinum country artist Josh Turner, as well as esteemed vocalist and mandolinist Darrell Webb, who has recorded and toured with Dolly Parton and Rhonda Vincent, among many others. The group also includes 26 year old "old soul" gutarist Zeb Snyder, whose fierce and versatile playing recalls Doc Watson and Norman Blake as readily as it does Duane Allman and Stevie Ray Vaughn. For now, Appalachian Road Show invites us into the music and stories of Appalachia's culturally-rich heritage. As they say, "It's part of who we are. It's natural for us. It is authentic. This music is so vibrant, and it has its own vitality and its own life, and we mean to carry that forward."