2026 Festival Schedule at-a-Glance

10:00 am – 4:00 pm: Mountain music all day on MHU’s Lunsford Commons

1:05 pm: Bailey Mountain Cloggers Annual Homecoming performance with Alumni on MHU’s Lunsford Commons

1:00 – 2:00 pm: Carroll Best Celebration, featuring a panel discussion with Roger Howell and French Kirkpatrick, hosted by Brandon Johnson (Day Hall 304)

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Ballad Swap, hosted by Donna Ray Norton (Owen Theatre)

2:00 – 2:50 pm: Open Jam led by Aaron Ratcliffe and Travis Stuart (Sunken Garden)

3:00 – 3:50: Lunsford Singalong hosted by Aaron Ratcliffe (the Loft in McConnell Hall)

2026 Performer Schedule

Performer Schedule

10.00: Welcome

10.05:  Dona Cavanagh + Friends

10.20: Junior Appalachian Musicians

10.35: Sourwood Ridge + Brandon Johnson

10:53: Tribute to Pat Franklin

10:59: Ballad Swap Teaser

11:05: Lunsford Award Presentation

11:12: Rodney Sutton

11:30: Aaron Ratcliffe

11:48: Travis Stuart

12.05: William Ritter and Sarah Ogletree

12:25: Songbird Holler

12:45: The ETSU Old-Time Ramblers

1:05: Rhiannon Ramsey + Friends and the Bailey Mountain Cloggers Annual Homecoming Performance with Alumni

1:35: Don Pedi

1:55: Green Grass Cloggers and the Stoney Mountain Boys

2:20: Lonesome Mountain Ears

2:35: WWC’s Big Timber Line

2:55: Carol Rifkin

3:10: Roger Howell and Friends

3:35: Marty and Don Lewis