Fiddle & Fork Festival: Midday Mountain Music Celebration at the Blue Ridge Music Center

Name: Fiddle & Fork Festival: Midday Mountain Music Celebration at the Blue Ridge Music Center
Start: 2026-06-14T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-14T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Blue Ridge Music Center

Schedule

Sun Jun 14 2026 at 12:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Blue Ridge Music Center | Galax, VA

𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫
A FREE celebration emceed by festival grand marshal Wayne Henderson, featuring live performances and interviews with the Music Center’s Midday Mountain Music groups, including:
- Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers
- Buck Mountaineers
- Dot and Dan Shikenjanski
- Willard Gayheart and Scott Freeman
- Sugarloaf Mountain Band
- Blue Ridge Ramblers
- Gen 3
The Bluffs Restaurant will be on-site with homestyle food available for purchase.
This event honors 20 years of daily, free musical presentations on the Blue Ridge Parkway and the significant contributions of these local musicians.
Admission is free; please consider donating to the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation's Midday Mountain Music Fund, created to sustain free, daily traditional music presentations at the Music Center at blueridgemusiccenter.org/support.
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𝐅𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 & 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 takes place June 12-14, 2026. Hosted by the Blue Ridge Music Center and The Bluffs Restaurant, the festival celebrates the music and foodways of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Fiddle & Fork is presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as part of the “Of the People: The Smithsonian Festival of Festivals,” a nationwide series of programs and exchanges marking the 250th anniversary of the United States and showcasing the country’s cultural landscape. For more information and a full festival schedule, visit fiddleandforkfestival.com
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭, located at milepost 241 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Laurel Springs, N.C., was the first dining establishment to open on the Parkway and welcomed generations of visitors from 1949 until it closed in 2010. The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation raised funds to rehabilitate and reopen the historic restaurant in 2021. Today, The Bluffs is committed to welcoming and serving visitors traditional southern homemade cooking, promoting Southern Appalachian heritage foodways, orienting patrons to natural and cultural attractions on the Blue Ridge Parkway and in Parkway Communities, and developing community partnerships. For more information, visit bluffsrestaurant.org.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 is located at milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, VA. A program of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, the Blue Ridge Music Center preserves, interprets, and presents the evolving musical traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountains, highlighting the influence of American Roots music.
The Music Center is home to an outdoor amphitheater at the base of Fisher Peak and an interpretive center featuring a gift shop, an indoor theater, a rotating exhibition, the award-winning Roots of American Music Museum, and hiking trails. For more information, visit blueridgemusiccenter.org.