Sunday, September 28th from 2-8pm at Trailhead Beer Market with doors opening at 4pm. It’s an evening of live music, beer, food, mountain bike demonstrations. including a bike parade with floats, and lots of fun stuff. Free admission with support from Cherokee Distributing. Live music includes A Bluegrass Superjam with Evie Andrus and the Bluegrass Superjam, Jon Whitlock, Hot Live Polka from the Schuhplatter 7, Daniel Kimbro, Mike Seal and California Sober and Megaweed that includes Jake Smith, Sam Quinn, and Ben McLaughlin. Also joining us will be Martin Harley and Sam Lewis, and Texas Tony and the Tornado Ramblers

🕚 11:00 AM – Doors Open
🕛 12:00 PM – Meetup for the Float with Knoxville Outdoor Collective
🕛 12:00 PM – Registration opens for the Golden Ticket Reverse Drawing
🕐 1:00 PM – Golden Ticket Reverse Drawing begins

🎶 Live Music All Afternoon & Evening!

2:00 PM – Evie Andrus & the East Tennessee Bluegrass Association

3:00 PM – Martin Harley & Sam Lewis

4:00 PM – Daniel Kimbro & Mike Seal

5:00 PM – Schuhplatter

6:00 PM – Jon Whitlock’s Big Band

7:00 PM – Texas Tony and the Tornado Ramblers

8:00 PM – MEGAWEED (Sam Quinn, Jake Smith & Ben McLaughlin)

Evie Andrus has spent most of her adult life adding tasty licks to other people’s projects, adding just the right ingredient to make a piece of music sound its best. With the release of her first album under her own name, “Evie’s Great Adventure,” the fiddler/vocalist ready to deliver the main course.

The new album is flat-out feel-good music delivered with the same heart and soul that’s made Evie a popular performed all across the Southeast.

Maybe you caught her bands Barefoot Sanctuary or Buffalo Fiasco, or heard her backing up renowned cellist Dave Eggar, irreverent singer-songwriter Roger Alan Wade, or performing at the Big Ears Festival with improvisational great Lonnie Holley, or maybe you spotted her backing up Foreigner on a short tour. There’s also the possibility that you heard her music on the HBO series “The Outsider” or saw her appearance on “American Ninja Warrior.”

Born in Fargo, N.D. and raised in Minot, N.D., Evie began playing fiddle at six years old in her father’s band Crossroads, but she was already a stage veteran. She first performed on stage at the age of 3, blowing a train whistle, on one of her father’s songs.

In a musical world where singer-songwriters are a dime a dozen, you will find in Jon Whitlock a refreshingly unique sound: a combination of gorgeous original melodies and intellectual, poignant stories that will surprise you and move you.

Originally trained as a drummer, he was drawn not just to the performance side of drumming, but even more so to the creative side. Traveling the world as a drummer for touring bands, the vast experiences of life, love, and loss inspired his creative side. Eventually he picked up a guitar, taught himself to play in a style that made sense to his percussive background, and started writing songs about what makes us human. What emerged is a beautifully melodic and rhythmic finger-picking guitar sound mixed with poetic, philosophical, romantic, and humorous lyrics. Jon has a knack for understanding the human experience; the words he writes, his gentle demeanor, and the style of his playing immediately draw you in and make you want more. Constantly working on new songs, he has a wealth of original material but also enjoys covering unexpected yet recognizable songs from his favorite artists.

Raised on American Roots music in Eastern Tennessee, Daniel Kimbro is a multi Grammy-nominated musician with 20 years experience performing alongside luminaries including Eric Clapton, Jerry Douglas, John Hiatt, Transatlantic Sessions, Sarah Jarosz, Larkin Poe & many others.

While his collaborations are numerous, his new solo album Carpet In The Kitchen showcases Daniel’s skills as a songwriter, composer & arranger. Guests on the album include Jerry Douglas, Mike Baggetta on electric guitar, & Jordan Perlson on Drumset.

Known to International audiences for his work with the Transatlantic Sessions, Martin Harley, Harley Kimbro Lewis, and many others, Daniel continues to tour throughout the US, the UK, and Canada.

Martin Harley has been making music and touring the world for over two decades. His sound has never been more down to earth. Exploring roots, blues and slide guitar in a style The Guardian referred to as ‘Spellbinding’, Harley has released eight albums to date, four recorded on home soil and four across the Atlantic in Texas and Nashville.

An album with Grammy nominated Daniel Kimbro and Sam Lewis is on the way for 2022. The three have collaborated live since 2014. “We’ve all jumped of a few rocks together, physically and mentally, this record has got scars, bars and underwater superheroes” 2021 includes some intimate acoustic shows for Martin with a band tour in the autumn. martinharley.com for tours and tickets.

His recent nominations include, AMA instrumentalist of the year, Best Acoustic Guitarist, Best Acoustic Blues artist. Notable appearances include Glastonbury Acoustic and Avalon stages, Beautiful Days, Royal Albert Hall, Union Chapel, Bluebird Nashville, Tønder Festival, The Troubadour LA and at home round the fire pit with his two daughters.

Sam Lewis isn’t just a musician. He’s a weaver of tales, capturing the essence of human experience in every note and lyric. Chris Stapleton calls him “a modern Townes Van Zandt,” with good reason. Lewis’s voice, often likened to molasses dripping from a Southern porch, carries a soulful weight that transcends genre. His music is a gumbo of feel-good grooves and vital social commentary. It is a testament to years spent honing his craft on the red dirt roads of the American Southeast.  Read Sam’s biography to learn more about this soulful storyteller weaving tales of humanity.

Texas Tony & The Tornado Ramblers will be bringing some Honky Tonk Outlaw Country to the show!