The full MerleFest 2024 lineup is here. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Willie Nelson, and many more join the already star-studded list of performers. The festival takes place next spring in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
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MerleFest organizers released the initial 2024 lineup last month. Turnpike Troubadours, Old Crow Medicine Show, Sam Bush, Willi Carlisle, and many more were on the initial list. Today, organizers released the rest of next year’s performers. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Sierra Hull, Dan Tyminski Band, Brandy Clark, and more fill out the massive list.
The four-day festival will take place on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. It will run from April 25-28. Ticket packages are on sale now on the MerleFest website.
The festival, started in 1988 to memorialize Doc Watson’s late son Eddy Merle Watson, focuses on “traditional plus” music. The festival’s website features a quote from the folk trailblazer that explains the spirit of the event. “When Merle and I started out, we called out music ‘traditional plus,’ meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.”
See the full lineup of “traditional plus” artists below.
MerleFest 2024 Full Lineup
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- Turnpike Troubadours
- The Teskey Brothers
- Nickel Creek
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
- Larkin Poe
- Lukas Nelson & POTR
- Steep Canyon Rangers
- Dan Tyminski Band
- Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart
- Sam Bush
- Jerry Douglas
- The Earls of Leicester
- Sierra Hull
- Brandy Clark
- Shinyribs
- Nick Shoulders
- Willie Watson
- Peter Rowan
- Scythian
- Donna the Buffalo
- Jim Lauderdale
- Kruger Brothers
- Darin & Brooke Aldridge
- S.G. Goodman
- New Dangerfield
- Chatham County Line
- Chatham Rabbits
- John McEuen
- Willi Carlisle
- Adeem the Artist
- The Last Revel
- Twisted Pine
- The Sensational Barnes Brothers
- The Waybacks
- Nefesh Mountain
- Them Coulee Boys
- Buffalo Nichols
- Evan Honer
- Jake Kohn
- Wyatt Ellis
- Colby T. Helms & the Virginia Creepers
- Palmyra
- Alexa Rose
- Andy May
- Arkansauce
- Ashes & Arrows
- “B” Townes
- Banknotes
- Bob Margolin
- Carol Rifkin
- Carolina Detour
- Charles Welch
- Corey Harris
- Ettore Buzzini
- Falling Timber Band
- Goldpine
- Gravity Check Juggling
- The Harris Brothers
- The InterACTtive Theater of Jef
- Into the Fog
- Jack Lawrence
- Jeff Little Trio
- JigJam
- Joe Smothers
- Josh Goforth
- Kyshona
- The Langan Band
- Laura Boosinger
- Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road
- The Local Boys
- Mark Bumgarner
- Missy Raines & Allegheny
- Mitch Greenhill & Mitch’s Kitchen
- New Found Gap
- Pete & Joan Wernick
- Pixie & The Partygrass Boys
- Presley Barker
- Roan Street Ramblers
- Roy Book Binder
- The Silent Comedy
- The Sullivan Sisters
- T. Michael Coleman
- The Tan & Sober Gentlemen
- Tony Williamson
- Uwade
- Wayne Henderson.
