Watermelon Pickers Festival

Schedule:

Showers are available at the Chet Hobart Park from 9:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m and 4:00 p.m - 7:00 p.m.

10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m: Yoga with Anna Billman
Start your morning with a relaxing yoga session, energized for a great day of music.

11:30 a.m - 12:15 p.m: Flatfooting Dance Workshop with Jan Scopel and music by the Short Hill Mountain Boys
You’ll be ready to kick up your heels and dance through the festival. Join Jan Scopel for a fun and easy flatfooting dance workshop, with lively music from the Short Hill Mountain Boys.

12:15 p.m - 1:15 p.m: Barn Dance with Kim Forry and music by Furnace Mountain
Keep the dancing going with a barn dance led by Kim Forry. Come to dance and enjoy the music provided by Furnace Mountain.

1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m: Flower Fest with Bees Wing Farm
Get creative and enjoy natural beauty while learning colour theory and floral design. Using found and foraged containers (or bring your own), create a beautiful floral arrangement to decorate your campsite. This activity is for kids 4-12, younger kids are welcome with a grownup to help with scissors.

1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m: 2022 Band Contest Winners Pictrola
Hailing from the NOVA area the band strives to incorporate modern themes into traditional bluegrass, bringing elements from blues, swing, jazz, and rock into unique covers and originals.

2:00 p.m - 2:45 p.m: Instrument Petting Zoo
Future musicians can come and explore. Try out fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and more. Get an up-close look at the instruments you will see throughout the fest.

2:00 p.m - 2:45 p.m: Mink’s Miracle Medicine
After a decade in existence, Mink’s has expanded from a poem-proselytizing duo to an Americana collective caravan featuring the region’s strongest wingmen.

2:45 p.m - 3:45 p.m: Furnace Mountain and the City Stompers
Furnace Mountain creates music that is at times lively and raucous, with spirited fiddle melodies weaving in and around the powerful rhythms of the bass and bouzouki, and other times poignant and poetic, with sublime vocal harmonies beautifully interpreting some of the oldest songs ever written. Joined by the City Stompers, with their lively beat and captivating flatfooting dance steps.

3:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m: The Webley Twizzle Project
The Webley Twizzle Project is an instrumental parlor folk trio based in Central Virginia. TWTP plays both modern and traditional music, with enough swing, rags, novelty and original music thrown in to bring a classy and smooth musical experience to any stage or sitting room. Join them in the kid’s barn for family-friendly music for fans of all ages.

3:45 p.m - 4:30 p.m: Short Hill Mountain Boys
The Short Hill Mountain Boys play their own blend of bluegrass, old-time, cajun, classic country, and folk music with a rare passion.

4:30 p.m - 5:45 p.m: John McEuen and the Circle Band
John McEuen brings with him 45+ years of worldwide performing with his banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin. Often referred to as ‘the String Wizard’, he weaves stories of his travels and family life, taking us through where his musical path has taken him.

5:45 p.m - 6:30 p.m: Lillian Hackett
At just 17 years old, Lillian Hackett is an emerging singer-songwriter from Lovettsville, VA. With a natural inclination toward New Americana music, she skillfully weaves a soulful and authentic musical experience, blending covers and originals.

6:30 p.m - 7:30 p.m: The Po Ramblin Boys
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys’ hard-driving approach to bluegrass music caught the ear of music lovers around the U.S. and overseas as well. The group feeds off of the energy of the sounds of the first-generation bluegrass musicians who were recorded 70 years ago, and they cling to that exciting core of the genre by design.

7:30 p.m - 8:30 p.m: The Woodshedders
The Woodshedders bring lyricism and musicality to fun, danceable shows that swerve through Honky-Tonk, Gypsy, Appalachian, and Vintage Rock n’ Roll, often in the same song. They are the host band of the Watermelon Pickers’ Fest.

8:30 p.m - 10:00 p.m: Miko Marks
Finding freedom through music is something that Miko Marks knows all too well. But it’s more than just freedom. It’s liberation. Deliverance. After living what seems to be multiple lives over, Miko has finally come into the life she was born to live. And she’s more than ready to live it to the fullest – one of truth, authenticity, vulnerability, joy and honesty.

10:00 p.m - 11:30 p.m: Larry Keel’s Electric Larry Land
Electric Larry Land is award-winning guitarist and songwriter Larry Keel’s uniquely gritty and suave original roots music applied to an electric format, creating what he calls a sonic“groove-and-vibe machine.

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