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Friday, June 6
 

12:00pm EDT

Artisan Village Open
Friday June 6, 2025 12:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
48 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Friday June 6, 2025 12:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Artisan Village
  Activity

2:00pm EDT

Donna Washington
Friday June 6, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Berkley Stage
  Berkley Stage

2:00pm EDT

Aaron Caswell Trio
Friday June 6, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage

3:00pm EDT

Lipbone Redding
Friday June 6, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Berkley Stage
  Berkley Stage

3:00pm EDT

Warren, Bodle & Allen
Friday June 6, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Warren, Bodle & Allen
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Friday June 6, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage

3:00pm EDT

Stories with Donald Davis's Storytelling Group
Friday June 6, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
49 Water Plant Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Donald Davis has been hosting a storytelling workshop this week. At this session, participants in his workshop will share stories they have been working on. Donald hosts and introduces the tellers.
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Workshop Stage
  Workshop Stage

4:00pm EDT

Wilder Flower
Friday June 6, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Berkley Stage
  Berkley Stage

4:00pm EDT

Reggie Harris
Friday June 6, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage

5:15pm EDT

Classical Picnic with Saltare Sounds
Friday June 6, 2025 5:15pm - 6:30pm EDT
45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 5:15pm - 6:30pm EDT
Berkley Stage
  Berkley Stage

7:00pm EDT

Josh Goforth
Friday June 6, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage

7:30pm EDT

Jay Turner & The Swinging Doors
Friday June 6, 2025 7:30pm - 8:30pm EDT
6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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Jay Turner & the Swinging Doors

J. T. & The Swinging Doors plays "Roots Country, Old Rock and Refurbished Hits of Today" with a feel and love of this music. This is not your Grandfather’s Country Music. Oh wait, Yes it is. A good part of it anyway. Jay remembers his Grandfather yodeling Jimmie Rodgers songs while... Read More →
Friday June 6, 2025 7:30pm - 8:30pm EDT
Berkley Barn
  Barn

8:00pm EDT

Foreign Landers
Friday June 6, 2025 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 8:00pm - 8:45pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage

8:45pm EDT

"Let's Dance!" w/Martin Garrish & The Ocracoke Rockers
Friday June 6, 2025 8:45pm - 10:00pm EDT
6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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Martin Garrish

Since he was a teenager, Ocracoke Heritage award winner Martin Garrish has been at the heart of the music scene here on the island, fronting bands such as "The Ocracoke Rockers," "The Graveyard Band Revived," and his acoustic ensemble “Martin and Friends." His exceptional guitar... Read More →
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Martin Garrish and the Ocracoke Rockers

Since he was a teenager, Ocracoke Heritage award winner Martin Garrish has been at the heart of the music scene here on the island, fronting bands such as "The Ocracoke Rockers," "The Graveyard Band Revived," and his acoustic ensemble “Martin and Friends." His exceptional guitar... Read More →
Friday June 6, 2025 8:45pm - 10:00pm EDT
Berkley Barn
  Barn

9:00pm EDT

Jeff Little Trio
Friday June 6, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Friday June 6, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage
 
Saturday, June 7
 

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
avatar for Paperhand Puppets

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
  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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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
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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
avatar for Clements Brothers

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 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
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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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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 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
avatar for Donna Washington

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 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
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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 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
avatar for Green Grass Cloggers

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 →
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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 →
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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.
avatar for Philip Howard

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
avatar for Larry & Joe

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 →
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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 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
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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

9:00pm EDT

Acoustic Jam Hosted by Josh Goforth
Saturday June 7, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Join Saltaire Sounds for `Island Tides,' an interdisciplinary devised theatre piece about the spirit of islands.

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avatar for Josh Goforth

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 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Berkley Barn
  Barn

9:15pm EDT

Ocracoke Island Ghost Stories
Saturday June 7, 2025 9:15pm - 10:00pm EDT
6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
avatar for Philip Howard

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 →
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David Tweedie

Photo: Eakin Howard
Saturday June 7, 2025 9:15pm - 10:00pm EDT
Ocracoke Preservation Society (front lawn)
  Activity

10:00pm EDT

Waterman IV Film Debut hosted by Katy Mitchell
Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
84 School Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960
Saturday June 7, 2025 10:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
Deepwater Theater, School Road
  Activity
 
Sunday, June 8
 

7:15am EDT

Yoga with Desiree Adams
Sunday June 8, 2025 7:15am - 7:45am EDT
6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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Desiree Adams

In addition to being a yoga instructor, Desirée has a background in the performing arts and education, is a member of Actor's Equity Association, and has a deep love for the community of Ocracoke. She became active in Ocracoke Alive in 2012 and has enjoyed watching the organization... Read More →
Sunday June 8, 2025 7:15am - 7:45am EDT
Berkley Barn
  Activity

7:45am EDT

Yoga Nidra with Lipbone
Sunday June 8, 2025 7:45am - 8:15am EDT
6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
avatar for Lipbone Redding

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 →
Sunday June 8, 2025 7:45am - 8:15am EDT
Berkley Barn
  Activity

8:15am EDT

Classical music & Meditation with Saltare Sounds
Sunday June 8, 2025 8:15am - 9:00am EDT
6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
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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 →
Sunday June 8, 2025 8:15am - 9:00am EDT
Berkley Barn
  Activity

9:00am EDT

Artisan Village Open
Sunday June 8, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm EDT
48 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Sunday June 8, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm EDT
Artisan Village
  Activity

9:15am EDT

Gospel Sing
Sunday June 8, 2025 9:15am - 10:45am EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
avatar for Biscuit Eaters

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.
avatar for Desiree Adams

Desiree Adams

In addition to being a yoga instructor, Desirée has a background in the performing arts and education, is a member of Actor's Equity Association, and has a deep love for the community of Ocracoke. She became active in Ocracoke Alive in 2012 and has enjoyed watching the organization... Read More →
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Louis Allen

Louis began his band life with Gary Mitchell in the mid-70s as one of the founding members of The Wahoo Revue bluegrass band. It was there that he acquired the stage name "Uncle Dewey." (Gary's stage name was..."Gary.") Since then, he has spent the last 45!! years in the trio Warren... Read More →
avatar for Gary Mitchell
Sunday June 8, 2025 9:15am - 10:45am EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage

11:30am EDT

Songs That Matter
Sunday June 8, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm EDT
45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
avatar for Reggie Harris

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 →
avatar for Louis Allen

Louis Allen

Louis began his band life with Gary Mitchell in the mid-70s as one of the founding members of The Wahoo Revue bluegrass band. It was there that he acquired the stage name "Uncle Dewey." (Gary's stage name was..."Gary.") Since then, he has spent the last 45!! years in the trio Warren... Read More →
avatar for Gary Mitchell
avatar for Bob & Jeanne Zentz

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 →
Sunday June 8, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm EDT
Berkley Stage
  Berkley Stage

12:30pm EDT

Martin & Friends w/special guest Dallas Mason
Sunday June 8, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
45 Berkley Rd, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
avatar for Martin Garrish

Martin Garrish

Since he was a teenager, Ocracoke Heritage award winner Martin Garrish has been at the heart of the music scene here on the island, fronting bands such as "The Ocracoke Rockers," "The Graveyard Band Revived," and his acoustic ensemble “Martin and Friends." His exceptional guitar... Read More →
avatar for Dallas Mason
Sunday June 8, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Berkley Stage
  Berkley Stage

12:30pm EDT

Sam Fribush Organ Trio
Sunday June 8, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
avatar for Sam Fribush Organ Trio

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 →
Sunday June 8, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage

1:45pm EDT

Larry & Joe
Sunday June 8, 2025 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
avatar for Larry & Joe

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 →
Sunday June 8, 2025 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage

3:00pm EDT

All Star Jam
Sunday June 8, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
22 Sam Jones Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA
Performers
avatar for Clements Brothers

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 →
avatar for Lipbone Redding

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 →
Sunday June 8, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Golden Stage
  Golden Stage
 
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