Mark your calendars for the 39th Annual North Georgia Folk Festival on Saturday, September 28, 2024 at Sandy Creek Park in Athens, Georgia.

We have a great line up of music, art, food and activities ready for you and are super excited to get our families back together for our annual gathering.

Schedule of Events

Gate opens - 10:30am
Kids Activities - 11:00am - 3:00pm
Art Vendors - 11:00am - 6:00pm
Music - 12:00pm - 9:00pm

Music Schedule:

Main Stage
12:00pm - Pam Blanchard & Sunnyside Up
1:00pm - Side Pieces
2:00pm - Tonalli Danza Folklórica Mexicana
3:00pm - Kids on the Mountain
4:00pm - Solstice Sisters
5:00pm - Randy Steele and the High Cold Wind
6:00pm - Pickled Holler 7:00 Pretty Little Goat
8:00pm - Borderhop Trio

Fire Circle Stage
2:30pm - Rebecca "Sunshine" Ballard
3:30pm - Julia Barfield
4:30pm - Pat Shields, storyteller

Food:

Food trucks featuring a wide variety of cuisines and desserts, including Aunt Jack's P-Nut Shack, La Michoacana es Natural Ice Cream, Rashe's Cuisine (Jamaican), Jittery Joes (coffee), La Pa on Wheels (Mexican), BSA Troop 1111 Sweet Shop, 4 Elephants (Laotian), Cafe Racer (burgers and fries), Honey Bee Baking, and Mama Bird's Granola.

(More info here)

Demonstrators:
Daniel Bollinger, Tex Crawford, Beth Kelley Zorbanos

Art Car Artists:
John Mollica, Crispy Printz, Steve Sweetzer

Artist/Vendors:
Bendzunas Family, Black Cat Tips, Cricket Bancroft, Carolyn Dalusky, Le Ann Fleischer, Rebecca Gilliard, Ansley Grace, Mama Bird Granola, PZ Hamilton, Laura Gibson Hooper, Meredyth Howard, Chester and Gail Karwoski, Peter Loose, Mary Mayes, Todd McGlaun, Rhonda Sunshine Miller, Cathy Pentz, Lisa Pickett, Micheal Pierce, Kip Ramey, Celina Shoen
(More info here)

Jamming:

We will have a jam tent back in the woods for folks who want to do some jamming of acoustic old time music.  The jam tent will be hosted by Doug Olsen.

Kids Activities:

Music on the main stage and Fire Circle Stage with Pam Blanchard and Sunny Side up and Rebecca 'Sunshine' Ballard.  Then supervised kids arts and crafts activities under the purple tent (with Sue Sellew and Nelita Willey) from noon-3:00.  and ... the Dinosaur Playground!

Merch:

Our webstore is now open to order t-shirts, hats, hoodies and other merch for the festival.  Orders will be processed in mid-September for delivery or pickup at the festival.

https://stores.inksoft.com/ngff/shop/home

Cost:
Adults $15 / Students (with ID) $8
Kids under 12 Free
Park admission (Ages 4-64): $2