Ocrafolk Festival, Ocracoke Island: Full Schedule

7:30pm EDT

Jay Turner & The Swinging Doors

Friday June 6, 2025 7:30pm - 8:30pm EDT

Performers

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

8:45pm 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

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 →

Dallas Mason

Martin Garrish and the Ocracoke Rockers

Friday June 6, 2025 8:45pm - 10:00pm EDT
Berkley Barn

Barn

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

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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.

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

Barn

7:15am EDT

Yoga with Desiree Adams

Sunday June 8, 2025 7:15am - 7:45am EDT

6 Nolan Ct, Ocracoke, NC 27960, USA

Performers

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

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

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