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14th annual Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival set for Saturday, Sept. 12

The Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival in Mocksville, North Carolina, was started in 2011 by the Camp’s Board of Directors as a fundraiser for the Camp’s scholarship and capital development funds. It has achieved that goal, operating in the black every year thanks to careful planning and generous stewardship of the festival’s sponsors, organizational team and volunteers.

The festival has also become a way to introduce a larger community to the Camp, and to bring Camp friends and family together for a special annual event.

In 2019, Carolina Country magazine readers voted Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival the winner of the inaugural “Carolina’s Finest” award for the Best Festival in the state of North Carolina! In 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic and state restrictions prohibited us from holding the festival. We were more grateful thuan ever to gather together in 2021, and again, we were blessed to win the Carolina Country “Carolina’s Finest” award for Best Festival.

This year’s festival will feature Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, The Biscuit Eaters, Lucas Ross, Ettore Buzzini​ and Blue Diggity.

Advance tickets for the 2026 event are $20 and $25 at the gate. They can be purchased at this link: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/carolina-bible-camp-14th-annual-bluegrass-festival

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13th annual Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival set for Saturday, Sept. 13

One of the “coolest cats” to ever pick up a banjo will entertain the crowd at the award-winning Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival on Saturday, Sept. 13, in Mocksville, North Carolina.

Sammy Shelor, winner of the 2011 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, will headline the festival with his popular group, the Lonesome River Band.

Tickets to Davie County’s Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival are available online now at www.cbcbluegrass.com. Ticket platform Zeffy makes the process easy. 

The Sept. 13 schedule of bluegrass’s finest also includes:

–        PBS Song of the Mountains host Tim White & Troublesome Hollow

–        Liam Purcell and Cane Mill Road

–        Caroline Owens and New Company

–        The Biscuit Eaters

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