Photo gallery: The 2026 Kerrville Folk Festival
Our mega gallery from the 20 acts we photographed at the 2026 Kerrville Folk Festival.
Our mega gallery from the 20 acts we photographed at the 2026 Kerrville Folk Festival.
The performing arts group hosted Night to Unite, which showcased the center's past, present and future.
The Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter took to the stage at 10 p.m. and was nonstop for an hour, including a crowd surfing moment and dancing with a little girl who wandered onto the stage.
The Canadian and Celtic-inspired duo the Eastsiders took to the stage Friday night and immediately brought the crowd to their feet.
During a well-received set, Brandy Clark singled out the Kerrverts at the Kerrville Folk Festival on Friday night.
Brown was the second act on Friday night during the second weekend of the Kerrville Folk Festival. She pulls from blues, gospel and Americana and a voice that tends to command a room.
The ceremony was led by Kerrville City Councilmember Jeff Harris, a Marine veteran, and Kerr County Precinct 3 Commissioner Jeff Holt, a retired Marine colonel. Holt opened with a reading of "In Flanders Fields," the World War I poem that has anchored Memorial Day observances for more than a century, its imagery of poppies and torches passed between the living and the dead as resonant on Monday as when it was written.
Adrian Blake Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd and Regina Strayhorn have built a devoted following on the national folk circuit through rich three-part harmonies and a theatrical, character-driven performance style that tends to turn first-time listeners into devoted fans.
Founded in 2000, the six-piece group has released 14 albums including "Morning Shift" (2023).
The Hickman, Ky., singer-songwriter released "Planting by the Signs" in January 2025. She won the 2023 Americana Music Association Emerging Artist of the Year award.