banjo bluegrass festival

Bring your lawn chair & enjoy the weekend with us! Concert admission & parking are FREE!!

 

Arts & Crafts
 Booth Vendors: 
call 270.864.1405 or (270) 459-0650 to reserve your spot!

Mail your inquiries to:
Bluegrass Festival Committee
PO Box 434
Burkesville, KY  42717

Cumberland River Bluegrass Festival, Burkesville, Kentucky, River Festival, Mandolin, banjo, flat top flattop guitar, fiddle, dobro, bluegrass, appalachain music, cumberland river vally, local free concerts, community festival, band competition, community holiday events committee, near dale hollow lake and the state park with golfing and boating, near sulphur creek and hendricks creek resorts,

Cumberland River Bluegrass Festival

The 2008 Festival is September 19 & 20, 2008!

Cumberland River Bluegrass Festival third Saturday in September

Dr. Joseph Schickel-Veterans Memorial Park in Burkesville, Kentucky

Thursday: Sept. 18
•  Baby Show & Pageant - 6:00 PM
Friday Evening Concert - 6:00 PM:
Sept. 19
•  Dailey & Vincent Band
•  Clearview
Saturday
Sept. 20 Beginning 10 AM & lasting until it’s over!
•  2008 House Band:  Grasstowne
•  Individual Instrument Competition
•  Band Competition
•  Performances by top 3 winning bands

• FREE ADMISSION •
• FREE PARKING •
Parking lot pickers welcome!

($25 fee RV Parking for entire weekend)

Featuring EmCee
Country John B. Mullinix
and
JBM Sound
of Nashville, TN!

Site updates in progress...  check back soon!

Bluegrass Band Competition:

1st Place Band
Takes Home
Bragging Rights
& $1,500!
Other band prizes: $750, $400, $200 & $100

Above:
Cumberland River Bluegrass Festival Trophy (displayed in Cumberland County).  Winning bands’ names are inscribed on the base each year.

Competitions are going to heat up the stage on Saturday, September 20, 2008!!

Individual Competition Categories:

• 
Mandolin
•  Banjo
•  Flat Top Guitar
•  Fiddle
•  Dobro
 

Sponsored by Communittee Holiday Events Committee & City of Burkesville