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The Tumbleweed Music Festival is a free, open-air, community acoustic music festival sponsored by the Three Rivers Folklife Society, which is traditionally held on Labor Day weekend each year. The 2024 festival will be our 28th annual! We feature many kinds of acoustic music (primarily folk, blues, bluegrass, etc.) but are welcoming to all types of music and dance performances.

The festival begins Friday of Labor Day weekend with a free "New Horizons" concert, presenting younger (and euphemistically "higher energy") performers than many of our attendees are used to seeing. We've found some fantastic people that way who have since become Tumbleweed family members, returning to perform often.

Saturday and Sunday of that weekend, from 11 am to 6 pm, we have a new performance or workshop on each of our 4 outdoor and 2 indoor stages, and 2 workshop rooms every 45 minutes; there's also an open-mic stage that keeps its own schedule. All performances and workshops are free except for the Saturday benefit concert and the Sunday evening Contra Dance - those are ticketed events.

Our Saturday night headliners:
Homebrew Stringband
Mike and Carleen McCornack
William Pint & Felicia Dale

One other feature of Tumbleweed is the annual "Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest," in which songwriters submit songs matching that year's festival theme; for 2024, our theme is "By Water, Under Trees."