Dashboards and Saddlebags the Destination Magazine™ Issue 049 April 2015 | Page 20

5th Annual North Carolina
Brewers And Music Festival

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he festival hailed as the BEST IN CHARLOTTE by Creative Loafing announced the 5th Annual North Carolina Brewers and Music Festival will
be held May 9, 2015. Gates open at 11:30 AM. The music lineup includes
Steep Canyon Rangers, Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds, Sol Driven Train,
Town Mountain, Yarn, Brushfire Stankgrass, Dead 27’s, and Edward David
Anderson. The Festival will be held at Historic Rural Hill and North Carolina’s
finest craft brews available with over three hours of free tasting. Brewers
scheduled to participate include Highland Brewing, Blind Squirrel Brewery,
Primal Brewery, Duck-Rabbit Brewery, Granite Falls Brewing, Birdsong Brewing,
District 9 Brewing, Mother Earth Brewing, Triple C Brewing, Lost Province
Brewing, Natty Greene’s Brewing, Sycamore Brewing, and Unknown Brewing.

The NCBMF is known to sell out in advance, so don’t delay in securing tickets.
Camping is available both Friday and Saturday nights and reservations are
strongly recommended. For those that camp Friday night, there will be an
exclusive show performed by both Yarn and Edward David Anderson. There
is no fee to attend. This show on the
campground stage is only open to
weekend campers and no individual
tickets will be sold for it. The campground opens at 3pm on Friday, May
8. Event details including advance
ticket information can be found at
www.NCBrewsMusic.com.
Headlining the 2015 North Carolina
Brewers and Music Festival is Steep
Canyon Rangers. Steep Canyon Rangers started as a group of friends playing
music together for fun, but after more
than a dozen years together, they are
instantly recognized as one of the most
successful bluegrass bands touring
today. Their recordings and dynamic

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