Virginia Festival of the Book 2024
If you’re one of those people who can’t walk past a bookstore without emerging, three hours later, clutching a stack of paperbacks you’d never heard of but now can’t live without — well, this one’s ...
Town Point Virginia Fall Wine Festival 2023
Virginia loves its founding father origin myths, and the wine industry is no exception: spend a little time Googling and you’ll undoubtedly run across mentions of the House of Burgesses (for you out-of-town folks, that’s ...
Bridge Day 2024
Once a year, West Virginia’s New River Gorge Bridge closes to cars and opens to daredevils — BASE jumpers — who make the 876-foot leap into the gorge below. It is the fifth-longest single-arch bridge ...
Best Friends Forever 2024
You're definitely not alone if you spent some of your teen years in your bedroom, scrolling Tumblr and listening to sad indie rock. In fact, you post-hardcore midwestern depressives form such a core musical voting ...
Bourbon and Beyond 2024
Bourbon & Beyond bills itself as “the world’s largest music, food and bourbon festival,” which makes you wonder how many other festivals are competing for the niche title. If they exist, they’ll have a hard ...
Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival 2024
Throw on your cowboy boots: This May and August, the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival is back with its toe-tapping tunes and down-home country charm. Bluegrass aficionados will gather at Granite Hill Campground, the festival's home since ...
Rooster Walk 2024
A celebration of music, art and nature in the rolling foothills of southwest Virginia, mere miles from the North Carolina border, Rooster Walk turns a typically sleepy, rural area into a mecca for the true ...
Boston Calling 2024
Back in 2013, Mike Snow and Brian Appel dreamt up a solution for the lack of any truly huge music festivals in New England. Their vision? A Massachusetts festival that melted together the country’s biggest ...
MerleFest 2024
If you’re a folk-head, MerleFest is the fest. Each April, come rain or shine, thousands upon thousands of mandolin-toting, t-shirt wearing introverts of all ages congregate on the campus of Wilkes Community College, located in ...
Highland County Maple Festival 2024
“Virginia is for lovers — and Highland county is for maple syrup lovers.” So goes the local saying, etched on keychains, emblazoned on t-shirts and advertised on the county website. The Highland County Maple Festival ...