Live Music photo galleries.
Since 2022, The Kerr County Lead has covered Fourth on the River from the crowd at Louise Hays Park — the bands, the fireworks, the kids splashing in the Guadalupe, the whole town turning out for the Hill Country's biggest Independence Day party.
The free, all-ages celebration featured a full day of live music — including Los Juanos, Jamie Lin Wilson, Junior Brown and William Beckmann, several of whom were booked for last year's canceled show.
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.
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.
Another out of this world performance by Next of Kin at the Kerrville Folk Festival.
It wasn't the start that the 54th Kerrville Folk Festival wanted on Thursday for its opening night, but they did get two acts onto the Kennedy Theater stage before thunderstorms intervened.
