Ocrafolk Festival, Ocracoke Island: Full Schedule

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9:00am EDT

Zentz Folk Sing-a-long

Saturday June 7, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Bob & Jeanne Zentz

Bob and Jeanne are old friends and life partners who combine a passion for music and history -- which they love sharing with others! They are singers of songs, old and new, about people, places and times gone by ... players of dozens of the usual (and unusual!) "unplugged" folk instruments... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

9:00am EDT

Saltare Sounds

Saturday June 7, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Join Saltare Sounds for a classical start to your day!

Performers

Saltare Sounds

Saltare Sounds was originally formed to perform at the Ocrafolk Festival two years ago and has since grown into a cohort of interdisciplinary artists based around the world. Co-founded by violinist Luca Kevorkian, the group includes Elijah Wilson on violin, Georges Mefleh on viola... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

9:00am EDT

Artisan Village Open

Saturday June 7, 2025 9:00am - 6:00pm EDT

48 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Saturday June 7, 2025 9:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Artisan Village

Activity

10:00am EDT

Donald Davis

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Donald Davis

Donald Davis was born in a Southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories. While he heard many traditional stories about Jack and other heroic characters, he was most attracted to the stories of his own family and places of origin. Davis began retelling the stories he heard... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

10:00am EDT

Reggie Harris

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Reggie Harris

Reggie Harris is a singer-songwriter, storyteller and world-renowned song-leader who is a powerful interpreter of the global music narrative. Uniquely committed to “music as a community building vehicle,” Reggie’s music shares insightful perspectives on issues of life, history... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

10:00am EDT

Biscuit Eateras

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT

49 Water Plant Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Biscuit Eaters

The Biscuit Eaters are a 7-piece, bluegrass and old-time family string band from Surry County, NC, with their youngest member playing fiddle and singing at 5 years old. The parents, Meredith, homeschooling mother of the six kids, and Jason, a pastor, round out the ensemble.

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Workshop Stage

Workshop Stage

10:00am EDT

Fish Printing (Kids & Family Area)

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 2:00pm EDT

20 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Make your very own Fish Print Tshirt at the Kids & Family Area. We have blank Ts and kerchiefs for a $5 donation, or you can bring your own Ts. (Photo: Eakin Howard)

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 2:00pm EDT
Kids & Family Activities

Kids & Family Activities

10:00am EDT

Games & Crafts (Kids & Family Area)

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

20 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Like to keep active? Stop by the Kids and Family Area for all sorts of fun for the young and young at heart!

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT
Kids & Family Activities

Kids & Family Activities

11:00am EDT

Paperhand Puppets "World of Wonder"

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Puppet playtime with Paperhand. Come meet the puppets with the director of the award winning troupe from central NC. We'll try on some stuff and have a good time, just for the fun of it!

Performers

Paperhand Puppets

For over 21 years, Paperhand Puppets has been using papier-mâché, cardboard, bamboo, your old house paints, cloth, and other assorted junk (treasure to them!) to create incredible giant puppets, masks, shadow plays and spectacle performances for all ages. Director Dononvan Zimmerman... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Berkley Barn

Barn

11:00am EDT

Jeff Little Trio

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Jeff Little Trio

Jeff Little (Piano – Vocals – Harmonica), Steve Lewis (Acoustic Guitar – Five String Banjo – Vocals), Luke Little (Mandolin)Jeff Little is an award-winning musician from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. With few exceptions the piano does not play a prominent part... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

11:00am EDT

Wilder Flower

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Wilder Flower

Madeline Dierauf, Molly Johnson, and Danielle Yother have been building a sound together since meeting in 2021 at the Hagood Mill Fiddlers Convention, where each member has taken home multiple blue ribbons. The band's musical chemistry developed easily during their first practice... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

11:00am EDT

Paperhand Puppets "World of Wonder" (Barn)

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Puppet playtime with Paperhand. Come meet the puppets with the director of the award winning troupe from central NC. We'll try on some stuff and have a good time, just for the fun of it!

Performers

Paperhand Puppets

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Berkley Barn

Kids & Family Activities

11:00am EDT

Foreign Landers

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

49 Water Plant Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Foreign Landers

Mandolinist David Benedict grew up in South Carolina while Tabitha Agnew Benedict started playing 5-string banjo at a young age in her homeland of Northern Ireland. Today Tabitha and David are carving their own path in the acoustic music world together, drawing on their unique international... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Workshop Stage

Workshop Stage

12:00pm EDT

Beleza

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Beleza

United by musical interests that include samba, funk, soul, blues, bossa nova, jazz and Spanish flamenco; Humberto Oliveira Sales (native to Salvador, Brazil) and Madeline Holly-Sales (raised in the southeast of the US) blend the melodic, rhythmic and harmonic riches from North and... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

12:00pm EDT

Clements Brothers

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Clements Brothers

The Clements Brothers are George and Charles Clements, identical twins from New England. They’ve been playing and writing music together for as long as they can remember. ‘The Clements Brothers’ marks their first project together since playing in the internationally touring... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

12:00pm EDT

Jef the Mime Juggling Workshop

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT

20 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Jef the Mime

Whether onstage or roving, Jef is a quiet kind of guy. He juggles and balances things. He gets confused at times. (Sometimes he even forgets what his hat is for!) He involves his audience members to play along with his mime, mask, and variety arts shenanigans. He even leads sing-a-longs... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Kids & Family Activities

Kids & Family Activities

12:00pm EDT

Tune Swap with Josh Goforth, Joe Troop, & David Benedict

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT

49 Water Plant Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Josh Goforth

Josh Goforth must have been born musical—he was already playing piano in church at the age of four—but it was an performance by Sheila Kay Adams that caused him to start thinking about the musical heritage of his native Madison County. Most famous for his fiddling, Goforth is... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Workshop Stage

Workshop Stage

12:45pm EDT

Paperhand Puppet Parade (OPS Museum Front Lawn)

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:45pm - 1:15pm EDT

20 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Meet at 12:30 PM at the front lawn of the Ocracoke Preservation Museum to get ready to join the Paperhand Puppet Parade!

Performers

Paperhand Puppets

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:45pm - 1:15pm EDT
Kids & Family Activities

Kids & Family Activities

1:15pm EDT

Reggie Harris

Saturday June 7, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Reggie Harris

Saturday June 7, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

1:15pm EDT

Foreign Landers

Saturday June 7, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Foreign Landers

Saturday June 7, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

1:15pm EDT

Donna Washington

Saturday June 7, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT

49 Water Plant Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Donna Washington

Donna Washington is an award-winning internationally known master storyteller, artist-educator, and author who has been providing workshops and performing for audiences of all ages for over thirty-six years. She is renowned for her storytelling for both children & adults from poignant... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT
Workshop Stage

Workshop Stage

2:15pm EDT

Aaron Caswell Trio

Saturday June 7, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Aaron Caswell Trio

Aaron Caswell is a native to Ocracoke Island who cut his outstanding guitar chops at an early age, absorbing songs, technique and tunes from local guitar legends Martin Garrish and Lou Castro. He performs regularly on the Outer Banks with area musicians, and can frequently be found... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

2:15pm EDT

Clements Brothers

Saturday June 7, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Clements Brothers

Saturday June 7, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

2:15pm EDT

Larry & Joe

Saturday June 7, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Larry & Joe

Larry Bellorín hails from Monagas, Venezuela and is a legend of Llanera music. Joe Troop is from North Carolina and is a GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina. Joe, after a decade in South America, got... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

3:15pm EDT

Saltare Sounds

Saturday June 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Saltare Sounds

Saturday June 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

3:15pm EDT

Jeff Little Trio

Saturday June 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Jeff Little Trio

Saturday June 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

3:15pm EDT

Bob & Jeanne Zentz

Saturday June 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm EDT

49 Water Plant Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Bob & Jeanne Zentz

Saturday June 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm EDT
Workshop Stage

Workshop Stage

4:15pm EDT

Wilder Flower

Saturday June 7, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Wilder Flower

Saturday June 7, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

4:15pm EDT

Donald Davis

Saturday June 7, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Donald Davis

Saturday June 7, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

5:15pm EDT

Lipbone Redding

Saturday June 7, 2025 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Lipbone Redding

Lipbone is a one-man orchestra and award-winning collaborator, who makes stories into songs, and songs into birds. In his early years, he left his home of North Carolina to live in New York City, where he busked nightly for three years in the Uptown 6 Train subway station in SoHo... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

5:15pm EDT

Molasses Creek & Friends

Saturday June 7, 2025 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Molasses Creek

Your host band, Molasses Creek, began life way back in 1993 when Gary Mitchell lured "Little FiddleBoy" David Tweedie to spend a college summer on an exotic island filled with beautiful bikini-clad young women, live music and fig cake. David got quite excited about the fig cake, and... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

6:15pm EDT

Biscuit Eaters

Saturday June 7, 2025 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT

45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Biscuit Eaters

Saturday June 7, 2025 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
Berkley Stage

Berkley Stage

7:30pm EDT

Donna Washington

Saturday June 7, 2025 7:30pm - 8:15pm EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Donna Washington

Saturday June 7, 2025 7:30pm - 8:15pm EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage

7:30pm EDT

Coffeehouse Sessions with Clements Brothers

Saturday June 7, 2025 7:30pm - 8:30pm EDT

226 Back Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Clements Brothers

Saturday June 7, 2025 7:30pm - 8:30pm EDT
Ocracoke Coffee Company

Activity

7:30pm EDT

Ocracoke Squaredance with Philip Howard, Molasses Creek, the Biscuit Eaters, & Green Grass Cloggers

Saturday June 7, 2025 7:30pm - 8:45pm EDT

6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Green Grass Cloggers

The Green Grass Cloggers have been showing off their incredible “feets” on stages and at festivals for 54 years. The group’s founder, Dudley Culp, brought his zeal and enthusiasm for clogging back to ECU in Greenville, NC after watching cloggers at the World’s Championship... Read More →

Molasses Creek

Biscuit Eaters

Philip Howard

Dive for the Oyster . . . Dig for the Clam . . . Carry your partner to the promised land!Ocrafolk Festival isn't just about sitting still and listening to incredible performances . . . it's about jumping into activities like the Ocracoke Squaredance that give you that one-of-a-kind... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 7:30pm - 8:45pm EDT
Berkley Barn

Barn

8:00pm EDT

Jam Performance at the 1718 Brewery with Beleza, & Larry & Joe

Saturday June 7, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT

1129 Irvin Garrish Hwy, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Larry & Joe

Beleza

Saturday June 7, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
1718 Brewing Ocracoke

Activity

8:45pm EDT

Sam Fribush Organ Trio

Saturday June 7, 2025 8:45pm - 10:00pm EDT

22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

Sam Fribush Organ Trio

The Sam Fribush Organ Trio began to take shape in the spring of 2020, when Fribush — a jazz piano graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, who had established a sizeable following in New Orleans — moved back from the Big Easy to his hometown of Greensboro, NC. “My... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 8:45pm - 10:00pm EDT
Golden Stage

Golden Stage