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Grace Potter to headline Rooster Walk 12 Music & Arts Festival in Martinsville, Va.
Rooster Walk Music & Arts Festival has announced the tertiary and final moving ridge of music performers for the much-anticipated 2022 festival, scheduled for May 26-29, 2022 in Martinsville, Va. Rooster Walk returns with an extraordinarily diverse pecker featuring a remarkable selection of roughly l artists performing across 6 unique stages over the iv-solar day festival.
Grammy-nominated rock'n'curlicue artist Grace Potter will bring her full band to the twelfth annual Rooster Walk Music & Arts Festival for a headlining set. In today's announcement, she is joined past arena rockers Moon Taxi, sixteen more bands, and five Artists at Large.
Described by Spin Mag as "one of the greatest living voices in rock today," and heralded as i of the world's best live performers, Grace Potter has played every major music festival from Coachella and Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo and Rock in Rio. She's had the honor of sharing the stage with artists such as The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, Robert Plant, The Allman Brothers Band, Neil Immature, Mavis Staples, and The Roots, to proper name just a few. She will be making her Rooster Walk debut at Rooster Walk 12.
Other new bands added to the RW12 lineup today include: Moon Taxi (arena rock), Ryan Montbleau (vocalizer/songwriter), Town Mountain (honky tonk/bluegrass), Kendall Street Visitor (jam/rock), Fireside Collective (progressive bluegrass), Dead Reckoning (Grateful Dead tribute), Daniel Donato (cosmic land), TK & Know Nothings (rock), Disco Risqué (funk/hard stone), Goodfellers (bluegrass), Afterwards Jack (folk), Into The Fog (progressive bluegrass), TC Carter Band (blues), Jules & The Agreeables (rock/Americana), The McGee Family Band (bluegrass), DJ What (DJ), and Pumphouse Blues (dejection).
In addition, Rooster Walk 12 will feature five immensely talented Artists at Large in Ron Holloway (saxophone; Allman Brothers, Susan Tedeschi Ring), John Bryant (drums; Ray Charles), Josh Shilling (keys; Mountain Heart), Roosevelt Collier (pedal steel; The Lee Boys) and Wallace Mullinax (guitar; Dead 27s). This quintet of artists will form the basis of the RW12 Artist at Large Ring, which will perform a different themed set on Fri, Sabbatum and Sunday, respectively, at the festival.
The new additions above join a Rooster Walk 12 lineup that already included: Fiddling Feat, Lettuce, BIG Something, The War and Treaty, Tab Benoit, Andy Frasco & The U.N., Sammy Rae & The Friends, Fruition, Brandon 'Taz' Niederauer, The Nude Party, Yarn, Mike & The Moonpies, Mountain Heart, Sol Driven Train, The Wooks, Crawford & Power, Los Colognes, Caitlin Krisko & The Broadcast, Sanctum Sully, Isaac Hadden Organ Trio, Striking Copper, The Stews, Large Fat Gap, The Wilson Springs Hotel, Pirates of the Piedmont
Rooster Walk will take place Thursday-Sun of Memorial Twenty-four hours weekend in the rolling countryside surrounding Martinsville, Va. Rooster Walk is a 4-day festival celebrating music, art, and the great outdoors at the idyllic Pop'south Subcontract venue. With roughly 50 bands performing on half-dozen different stages, an eclectic roster of great music guides the Rooster Walk feel.
In add-on to four days of amazing tunes, the family-friendly Rooster Walk will offering a wide diversity of kids' activities, craft beer, dandy nutrient, arts and numerous opportunities to savor Virginia'south dandy outdoors with kayak tours, bike rides, yoga, a disc golf course and cute on-site camping ground.
VIP tickets, General Admission weekend passes and camping ground upgrades are on auction now through www.roosterwalk.com. Single day tickets will go on auction in the coming weeks.
Rooster Walk has been consistently voted as a Top three Best Music Festival and All-time Family-Friendly Festival past the Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine'southward Best of the Blue Ridge. It also has been voted the region's Nigh Artistic Charitable Event by readers of Virginia Living Magazine, among other accolades. The festival was created in retentiveness of late Martinsville natives Edwin "The Rooster" Penn and Walker Shank, who graduated from Martinsville Loftier School in 2000.
A portion of proceeds from the festival will exist donated to local and regional charities, including Rooster Walk'south own Penn-Shank Memorial Endowment Scholarship Fund for students at Martinsville High Schoolhouse, and the Rooster Walk Music Instrument Program for public ring programs in the local city and county school systems.
The festival is produced by Rooster Walk Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit defended to promoting music, arts and education in its home of Martinsville-Henry County. Since 2009, Rooster Walk Inc. has donated more $220,000 to local and regional charities.
Source: https://www.visitmartinsville.com/blog/grace-potter-to-headline-rooster-walk-12