Friday, Aug. 28

It’s Fayetteville Roots Festival weekend, and our annual celebration of roots, folk, and Americana music is kind of dominating the calendar this week.

Main Stage acts at the Fayetteville Town Center on Friday night include JD McPherson, John Fullbright, Pokey LaFarge, The Steel Wheels, Martha Scanlan, and John Moreland. Here’s an interview we did with Moreland recently. It starts at 3 p.m. The event was previously listed as sold out, but organizers recently announced a few more tickets have become available.

There are a handful of roots fest related activities that are free this weekend as well, and won’t require tickets. Maxine’s Tap Room has New Orleans-style horn band Crescent City Combo, and local band Ozarka Orkestra will also play a free show at Kingfish.

In non-Roots Festival news, local theatre troupe TheatreSquared will open their new show, Amadeus, this weekend at Nadine Baum Studios. Here’s more information about that, and tickets are available here.

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Friday, August 28

9:00 am	Roots Fest: Making Music: Images from Shiloh Museum Fayetteville Public Library	Art
9:15 am	Opening of the Ozark Folksong Collection UA Libraries	Community
11:30 am	Find it Fresh Luncheon Washington County Farm Bureau
12:00 pm	Roots Fest: Ozarks at Large live taping Fayetteville Public Library	Music
1:00 pm	Roots Fest: Luthier Summit May Bell Music	Activity
3:00 pm	Crossroads Farmers’ Market Trinity United Methodist Church	Community
3:00 pm	Roots Fest: Main stage music begins Fayetteville Town Center	Music
3:00 pm	Roots Fest: Old Time Music on the Square Fayetteville Underground	Music
5:00 pm	Paul Price – Harp guitar Emelia’s Kitchen	Music
6:00 pm	Earl & Them / Flashback George’s Majestic Lounge	Music
6:00 pm	Roots Fest: Tim West closing reception Fayetteville Underground	Art
7:00 pm	Kelly Road Jose’s	Music
7:00 pm	Lecture – Eric Shiner: Andy Warhol, Nature vs. Culture Crystal Bridges	Art
7:00 pm	Sean Kemp Foghorn’s	Music
7:00 pm	Workers, Unite Nightbird Books	Community
7:30 pm	Fett’s Folly Dickson Street Pub	Music
7:30 pm	TheatreSquared: Amadeus Nadine Baum Studios	Performance
8:30 pm	Ouachita River Band JJ’s Grill	Music
9:00 pm	Bass Invaders: Jesse Strange / Daven Treague / Kudos Dickson Street Social Club	Music
9:00 pm	Galaxy Tour Guides / Cadillac Jackson Ryleigh’s	Music
9:00 pm	Jeff Kearney & The Call of Commotion! / Adam Cox / Maybe Nobody Smoke & Barrel Tavern	Music
9:00 pm	Roots Fest: Ozarka Orkestra Kingfish	Music
9:30 pm	Roots Fest: Crescent City Combo Maxine’s Tap Room	Music
11:00 pm	Roots Fest: Jimmy LaFave & Michael Fracasso Chancellor Hotel	Music

Saturday, Aug. 29

A new Fayetteville Roots Festival event this year is the Chef Cook Off. The Iron Chef-style cook off will take place at the Fayetteville Town Center on Saturday, Aug. 30 during the Fayetteville Farmers’ Market. The event will feature teams of chefs from Benton and Washington County paired up to create their best dish made exclusively from Fayetteville Farmers’ Market produce and local protein from Crystal Lake Farms. It’s free to attend. Here’s more.

Roots Festival headliners at Fayetteville Town Center on Saturday start at 3 p.m., and include The Punch Brothers, Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan, The Shook Twins, Smokey and the Mirror, Ben Miller Band, and Cory Branan. Here’s a full Roots Festival schedule.

Late night Roots Festival shows include Cutty Rye, Pokey LaFarge, and Ben Miller Band at George’s, Arkansauce at Maxine’s, and 1 Oz. Jig at Kingfish.

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Saturday, August 29

7:00 am	Saturday Farmers’ Market Fayetteville Square	Community
7:00 am	St. Jude Fayetteville 10k Lake Fayetteville	Activity
8:00 am	Roots Fest: Songwriting Workshop hosted by J Wagner Fayetteville Public Library	Activity
8:30 am	Yoga in the Garden Botanical Garden of the Ozarks	Activity
9:00 am	Farmers’ Market Yoga Fayetteville Underground	Activity
9:00 am	Roots Fest: Farmers’ Market Chef Cook-off Fayetteville Town Center	Activity
10:00 am	Roots Fest: Mark Bilyeu & Cindy Woolf sing Woody Gutherie Kid Songs Fayetteville Public Library	Family
10:00 am	Roots Fest: Still on the Hill presents Ed Stilley’s Folk Art Guitars Fayetteville Underground	Music
11:00 am	Roots Fest: Ozark Flatfooting Workshop Fayetteville Underground	Music
12:00 pm	Live from Fayetteville Roots hosted by Kyle Kellams Fayetteville Public Library	Music
12:00 pm	Roots Fest: Ozark Storytelling Workshop Fayetteville Underground	Activity
1:00 pm	Roots Fest: Ozark Music Workshop w/ Joe Craven May Bell Music	Activity
2:00 pm	TheatreSquared: Amadeus Nadine Baum Studios	Performance
3:00 pm	Roots Fest: Main Stage music begins Fayetteville Town Center	Music
3:30 pm	Roots Fest: Arkansas Traditional Music on the Square Fayetteville Underground	Music
5:00 pm	Paul Price – Harp guitar Emelia’s Kitchen	Music
7:00 pm	Kelly Road Foghorn’s	Music
7:00 pm	Last Saturday Variety Show Fayetteville Underground	Performance
7:00 pm	Ruckus Jose’s	Music
7:30 pm	Loose Change Dickson Street Pub	Music
9:00 pm	American Lions Smoke & Barrel Tavern	Music
9:30 pm	Roots Fest: Cutty Rye / Pokey LaFarge / Ben Miller Band George’s Majestic Lounge	Music
9:30 pm	Roots Fest: Family Folk Sing-Along with Carol Widder Fayetteville Underground	Music
10:00 pm	Roots Fest: 1 Oz. Jig Kingfish	Music
11:00 pm	Roots Fest: Arkansauce Maxine’s Tap Room	Music

Sunday Aug. 30

There will be a giant slip and slide set up on Dickson Street on Sunday. Slide the City will take place from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Here are all the details.

Another free Roots Festival event is taking place on Sunday. Little Rock-based Tales from the South will be broadcasting live from the Fayetteville Public Library at 3 p.m., and Moors & McCumber and Cory Branan will be telling performing.

Later on, there’s another impressive lineup at the Fayetteville Town Center. It starts at 3:30 p.m. with John Elliot, followed by Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds, Devon Sproule, and Jimmy LaFave. Closing out the festival is supergroup Watkins Family Hour, featuring Sarah Watkins, Sean Watkins, Fiona Apple, Don Heffington, Sebastian Steinberg, Benmont Tench, and special guests. It should be awesome.

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Sunday, August 30

9:00 am	Slide the City Dickson Street	Activity
10:00 am	Roots Fest: Roots Brunch at Greenhouse Grille Greenhouse Grille	Music
1:00 pm	Roots Fest: Children’s Instrument Workshop Fayetteville Public Library	Family
2:00 pm	TheatreSquared: Amadeus Nadine Baum Studios	Performance
3:00 pm	Roots Fest: Tales from the South w/ Moors & McCumber, Cory Branan Fayetteville Public Library	Music
3:30 pm	Roots Fest: Friends of the Festival Party George’s Majestic Lounge	Music
7:30 pm	Open mic night Dickson Street Pub	Music
9:30 pm	Sean Danielsen (Smile Empty Soul) / Jesse Dean Ryleigh’s	Music