Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival
In its 26th year in 2026, this three-day farm-set bluegrass festival in the small Sevier County community of Kodak presents 15 regional and national acts against Great Smoky Mountains views, with camping and open jam sessions.
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"A grassroots bluegrass music day held in the small Union County seat of Maynardville in the ridge-and-valley country north of Knoxville, keeping alive the old-time and bluegrass picking traditions of eastern Tennessee."
Big Ridge Bluegrass Festival
"A moving annual commemoration in the tiny Johnson County village of Butler, which was deliberately flooded by the Watauga Dam in the 1940s, reuniting descendants and former residents to remember the lost original town now beneath Watauga Lake."
Old Butler Day Festival
"A weeklong traditional fair in the Cumberland Plateau county seat of Jamestown serving the rural farming communities of Fentress County with livestock competitions, carnival rides, and the enduring customs of a Tennessee agricultural fair."
Fentress County Fair
"A nine-day agricultural fair in the Upper Cumberland town of Sparta bringing together the farming families of White County for livestock shows, tractor pulls, live music, and classic fair traditions each late summer."
White County Fair
"A boutique Americana and bluegrass festival held at The Caverns, a natural cave amphitheatre near the tiny Grundy County hamlet of Pelham, featuring artists such as Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in one of the world's most distinctive music venues."
CaveFest
"A week-long agricultural fair in the quiet Sequatchie Valley county seat of Pikeville, one of Tennessee's smaller and more genuinely rural county fairs serving a mountain community steeped in Scots-Irish farming tradition."
Bledsoe County Fair
"Billed as the world's oldest and largest old-time music and bluegrass competition, the Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention has gathered mountain musicians at Felts Park since 1935, drawing competitors and campers from across the country."
Old Fiddlers' Convention
"Known as the Teepee Capital of the World, the Crow Fair is one of the largest Native American gatherings in North America, held on the Crow Reservation with powwow dancing, a rodeo, parades, and an encampment of thousands of teepees."
Crow Fair
"An all-day street fair and live music festival filling Main Street in the charming small town of Bristol, Addison County, with local acts, vendors, and community celebration in the shadow of the Green Mountains."
Pocock Rocks Music Festival and Street Fair
"In the tiny Czech hamlet of Praha, founded by Moravian and Bohemian immigrants in the 1850s, Mass is celebrated in a historic Czech-style church on August 15 each year, followed by traditional Czech food and Texas Czech bands playing for outdoor dancing."
Praha Assumption Festival
"An intimate two-day celebration of traditional fiddle and folk music set in the tiny Genesee Valley hamlet of Mumford, drawing acoustic musicians and dancers from across upstate New York."
Fiddle and Folk Festival
"The inaugural successor to the legendary Norsk Hostfest, this new two-day Nordic heritage festival at the Minot Municipal Auditorium carries forward decades of Scandinavian community tradition with two stages of entertainment, food, artisan crafts and educational programming."
Fjord Folk Fest