Opening night on May 21 features Jamie Lin Wilson, Rich O'Toole, Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters, and The Wilder Blue. Food and craft booths open at 6 p.m., with the concert beginning at 7 p.m. at the Kennedy Outdoor Theater.
The lobby opens an hour before curtain, with cocktails and mocktails served by Omakase Hospitality.
Conductor and artistic director Dr. Eugene Dowdy will lead the full orchestra through a one-hour program. The names of those who lost their lives in last year's flooding will be read during the concert.
From Saturday morning farmers markets to Sunday night sound baths, Kerr County's weekend calendar is packed — 31 events on Saturday alone, with 14 more on Sunday.
The final night of opening weekend Sunday at the Kennedy Outdoor Theater covers more ground than any other night of the first four days.
If there is a night at this year's Kerrville Folk Festival built to be remembered, it is Saturday at the Kennedy Outdoor Theater — a four-act lineup that opens with one of Americana's most acclaimed voices and closes with one of bluegrass's most celebrated live acts.
Yasmin Williams leads off at 7 p.m. in a set that is likely to stop first-timers cold.
The 54th annual Kerrville Folk Festival opens May 21 at Quiet Valley Ranch with a four-act night at the Kennedy Outdoor Theater that moves from Texas plains to Texas dancehall before closing with one of the state's most buzzed-about harmony bands.
A ribbon cutting in Hunt, Schreiner University's commencement, a Gary P. Nunn benefit concert and a film about the Guadalupe River highlight a full week of community events across Kerr County.
The week's calendar reflects the full range of what Kerrville and the surrounding Hill Country do well.
