Fall Creek Falls annual festival begins Friday
The festival is filled with old-time music, pioneer skill demonstrations, handmade crafts, and great country cooking. This is the 25th year for the festival and it promises to be the biggest and best yet.
The festival kicks off this Friday night with a square dance. Playing for the dance will be the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, Piney Ridge, and the Blue Creek Ramblers.
Saturday’s festivities will have two stages of music going that will feature some of the best old-time and bluegrass music in the region. Some of the musicians listed include Leroy Troy Boswell, Roy Harper, Tom Owens, Tom McCarroll, and harmonica champion Red Best.
Old-time string bands will include the Old Time Serenaders and the Lantana Drifters. Bluegrass will include Cumberland, the Edmons Family, and Mid-South Bluegrass.
Demonstrations will feature sorghum molasses making, herding sheep with dogs, sheep shearing, and blacksmithing. There will even be a civil war encampment, with periodic cannon firings. There will be around 80 craft booths scattered around the festival grounds with a variety of handmade crafts and gifts.
There will also be food booths run by local churches and non-profit groups that will serve up your favorite home cooking.
Fall Creek Falls State Park has been voted by its users to be one of the top family destinations in the Southeast. Protected within its boundaries are beautiful waterfalls, tremendous canyons, and dense forest. Facilities located within the park include a 250-site campground, a hotel and conference center, and 30 cabins.
For more information about the festival, please call (423) 881-5708.