2022 BrightFire Music & Arts Festival

? BrightFire Music & Arts Festival?

A kaleidoscopic celebration of Life, Hope, and Renewal through music, art, fire, dance, and nature.

At BrightFire, enjoy and indulge in new local art and craftsmanship at the Night Market. Grab a bite to eat at one of the delicious food trucks, kick back at the Midnight Mulligan beer garden, make a flower crown, learn to dance at the maypole, play games in the field while listening to concerts with mesmerizing fire performances, and rendezvous at the fairy village for a tea party. All ages welcome!

Surround yourself in an imaginative artistic experience during the sunset fire-lighting show, premiering a new innovative music and dance piece by Anne Harris, Fred Dunlap, & THE MARK dance company.

Activities:

• Mainstage Concerts + 5 intimate acoustic stages
• Night Market (Art Show, Crafts, Designer, Innovation, Silent Auction)
• Food Trucks, Craft Snacks, Beverages
• Pilates (optional class @4:30 & 5:30)
• Midnight Mulligan Beer Garden
• Whiskey Tasting
• Flower Crown Station - make your own!
• Dance!
• Fire Science, History, & Safety
• Gardening (demonstrations, starter kits)
• Field Games (Potions and Pixels)
• Silent Auction (benefits Safe Alliance, donate).

Lineup:

• Anne Harris (Blues/American Roots)
• Tuatha Dea (Appalachian Rock)
• Space Ballet (Trip-Hop Opera)
• Master Kie & Your Neighborhood Orchestra
• Hey Richard
• Others TBA

Schedule:

• 4:00 - Gates open to Night Market, 5 Acoustic Stages, Silent Auction, Activities, Games, Garden Social, etc.
• 4:30 & 5:30 (optional) 2x 30-minute Pilates class
• 6:00 - Mainstage performances
• 8:10 - Sunset Fire-Lighting Ceremony
• 8:30 -10p: Mainstage performances

The festival is an innovative artist-led, community-based interpretation of the essence of Beltane. In Celtic tradition, Beltane marked the end of a cold, dark, life-and-death winter and the beginning of renewed life and summer. It is associated with fire, nature, renewed life and growth, joyful celebrations, and an important time in agricultural and pastoral life. Initially, herdsmen in Scotland, Ireland, and Man, would lead their cattle between bonfires to cleanse and prevent disease before entering into the new summer pastures. Ancient communities celebrated this changing season by playing music and dancing near the fires. They would extinguish their home hearths and relight them from the communal Beltane fires as a unifying practice.

BrightFire Festival is a celebration of Life, Hope, and Renewal signifying the start of the summer months.

A production by Charlotte New Music in partnership with Historic Rural Hill, & THE MARK dance company.

Silent Auction sales benefit Safe Alliance. Silent auction donation form.

Sponsors:

Midnight Mulligan

Digital Color Concepts

Charlotte on the Cheap - find cheap things to do!

Partners:

That Girl Blooms

Hampton Inn, Comfort Suites, Country Inn & Suites

Mecklenburg County Park and Rec

City of Charlotte

Visit Lake Norman

Town of Huntersville

& many others!

Inquiries for partnering and sponsorship may be directed to 704-951-5910 or info (at) charlottenewmusic.org.

Food Trucks & Beverage Vendors:

Lost Highway Pizza

I've Never Seen This

Lobster Dogs

Hemp & Tea Company

Third Eye Coffee

Darby's Cuisine (wings, crab cakes, & more!)

Maki Taco (hibachi chicken, steak, tacos, etc)

Sweet Wings Honey

Ole Buddy's Oinker Express

Ve-Go

Hip Hop Smoothies & Ice Cream

Sugar Mama

Jacob & Marbrey's Gourmet Cotton Candy

Some of the craftspeople that will be there!

Rwake Create (crystal jewelry & art)

The Enchanted Kitchen - Ye Ole Apothacary

Back creek pottery

Gift Innovations

Art & Stash

Night Owl Metal Works

Faust Leather Goods

Bach to Rock

Art by Amanda

Planting Some Peace

Pink Clouds

Live Edge of Lake Norman

Roman's Workbench (woodworking)

Vendors: art, craft, and garden (click here)

Performing artists (click here)

Fairy participation form (click here)

Host or Publisher Rural Hill