Renaissance Covington announces Bridge Folk Music & Art Festival, a one-day, free event on June 16, in Covington from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The event takes place on the banks of the Ohio river at Piazza Rivercenter, an outdoor dining and entertainment area in Covington.
The Event will feature live music with 10 local, national and international music acts in genres spanning from Folk to Jazz to Funk: The lineup includes: Krystal Peterson & The Queen CIty Band, Miles Over Mountain, CATL, Randall Conrad Olinger, Woodblind, Common Center, Jess Lamb & The Factory, Trevor Clark Trio Holler Blend, and John Till.
Guests are encouraged to bring a chair or blanket to relax with their families and enjoy the music.
Renaissance Covington is a small nonprofit aimed at revitalizing Covington’s historic downtown through creative placemaking, special events, community programming, and business support.
The restaurants of Piazza Rivercenter will be vending all manner of local food options. Additionally West Sixth Brewing, Chrisman Mill Winery, and soft drinks will be available for purchase.
Molly Wellman will host a bourbon tasting at Bridge Folk (provided photos).
The newly launched B-Line will feature Moonshine Cocktails from the Neeley Family Distillery. Also, local Bourbon expert, Molly Wellmann will be hosting a guided bourbon tasting with New Riff’s OKI 12-Year Barrel pick (this is a limited ticketed tasting of 4 sessions between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. For more information and tickets, click HERE).
Local artists and artisan vendors will be selling their wares, along with a full day of family-friendly programming. The event is intended to be interactive and a learning experience for all involved, especially children. To wit, the organizers of Bridge Folk have worked to curate a full day of family-friendly programming. Organizers Ryan Hill and Chris Green each have young children, and were frustrated by the lack of music festivals that they could share with their kids.
“I often travel outside the area to take my girls to family-friendly music festivals, where there are activities for the kids in addition to the music. I had this concept for something similar here and found a business partner in Chris and we created Bridge Folk.”
said Hill.
Schedule of Events: Music Bourbon Tastings & Family Friendly Programming
-
- 10:00am – 11:00am: Breakfast with Holler Blend: This will be a meet and greet for children and adults to interact with Holler Blend, an Americana band, who will answer questions about being musicians, share their experiences of traveling while playing shows and will play an intimate short set for the crowd.
- 11:00am – 12:00pm: Trevor Clark Trio (Roebling Stage)
- 11:30am – 12:30:pm Project Capturing Imaginations with Ryan Hill Hill volunteers with a local 3rd grade art class. Students from his class will be presenting their work for display, while he and other local artists will answer questions about being working artists.
- 12:10 – 1:10pm: Holler Blend (RiverCenter Stage)
- 12:45pm – 1:45pm: Hula Hoop Clinic: A short session with a Hula Hoop instructor to review some basic hula hoop tricks and moves (hoops will be on hand, but please bring some of your own to join the fun and hoop the day away to some great music!)
Krystal Peterson and the Queen City Band are among the acts performing at Bridge Folk
- 1:20pm – 2:20pm: John Till (Roebling Stage)
- 2:00pm – 4:00pm: Arts & Crafts with Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center: Baker Hunt will be conducting art and craft sessions with the children. Activities will include a music-themed project and a nature-based project.
- 2:30pm – 3:30pm: Jess Lamb & The Factory (RiverCenter Stage)
- 3:40pm – 4:40pm: CATL (Roebling Stage)
- 4:30pm – 6:00pm Musical Instrument Petting Zoo with Folk School Coffee Parlor: Different musical instruments will be available for children to pick up, hold and make sounds! Musicians will be on hand to explain the instruments and show the children how each one works.
- 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Little Folkers Puppet Party with Miss Hanna Rae: Enjoy some puppet fun with Miss Hanna Rae Mathey and The Little Folkers Puppet Party!
- 4:50pm – 5:50pm: Common Center (RiverCenter Stage)
- 6:00pm – 7:00pm: Woold Blind (Roebling Stage)
- 7:10pm – 8:20pm: Miles Over Mountains
- 8:30pm – 9:40pm: Randall Conrad Olinger
- 9:50pm – 11:00pm: Krystal Peterson & The Queen City Band
Bridge Folk is supported by Corporex, West Sixth Brewing, Madison Photoworks, Wichmann & Associates, Ryan Hill ImageNations Photography, Inspirado at Madison Gallery and Slasher Tees, as well as Renaissance Covington.
Renaissance Covington manages the Covington Farmers Market among its many urban activation programs. For more information, click here.
Renaissance Covington
