Schedule

Watermelon Pickers' Fest Poster 2024

2024 Festival Schedule

Mainstage

Dance Barn

Pick-nic Shelter

Kid’s Barn

Thursday

September 5, 2024

Thursday early-arrival ticket holders can enter the festival grounds beginning at 9:00 AM. Gates open for arrival/check-in from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

Arrive early, set up your campsite, join a workshop, or pick with friends. Music workshop details are coming soon!

Friday

September 6, 2024

2022 Band Contest Winners Pictrola

1:00-2:00 PM

Mainstage

Parachutes and Piñatas

1:00-2:00 PM

Kids Barn

Mink’s Miracle Medicine

2:00 – 2:45 PM

Dance Barn

Instrument Petting Zoo

2:00 – 2:45 PM

Kids Barn

Furnace Mountain and the City Stompers

2:45 – 3:45 PM

Mainstage

Short Hill Mountain Boys

3:45 – 4:30 PM

Dance Barn

John McEuen and the Circle Band

4:30 – 5:45 PM

Mainstage

Lillian Hackett

5:45 – 6:30 PM

Dance Barn

The Po Ramblin Boys

6:30 – 7:30 PM

Mainstage

The Woodshedders

7:30 – 8:30 PM

Dance Barn

Miko Marks

8:30 – 10:00 PM

Mainstage

Larry Keel’s Electric Larry Land

10:00 – 11:30 PM

Dance Barn

Saturday

September 7, 2024

Watermelon T-Shirt Tie Dye

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Kids Barn

Wyatt Ellis

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM

Dance Barn

Recycled Instruments and Masks

12:00-12:45 PM

Kids Barn

Band Contest 

12:30-2:00 PM

Dance Barn

Honky Tonk Review

2:00 – 2:45 PM

Dance Barn

Wyatt Ellis

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Mainstage

Band Contest Winners

4:00 – 4:30 PM

Dance Barn

Carsie Blanton

4:45 – 5:45 PM

Mainstage

Plate Scrapers

5:45 – 6:30 PM

Dance Barn

Della Mae

6:30 – 7:45 PM

Mainstage

Carsie Blanton

7:45 – 8:30 PM

Dance Barn

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band

8:30 – 10:00 PM

Mainstage

Low Water Bridge Band

10:00 – 11:30 PM

Dance Barn

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