A longtime local music festival will soon go quiet, and late August in Fayetteville may never quite be the same.
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Fayetteville Roots Festival kicks off Thursday
The Fayetteville Roots Festival is set to return for another year with live music and culinary events at several locations around town.

Things you can do for free during Fayetteville Roots Festival
Here’s what we know about some of the zero-dollar events happening during the festival this year.

Fayetteville Roots Fest to bring top chefs to town once again for annual event
Fayetteville Roots Festival is a music festival primarily, but food has always been central to the event as well, and this year is no exception.

The Wood Brothers, Taj Mahal, Bettye Lavette, North Mississippi Allstars to headline 2022 Fayetteville Roots Fest
Merry Fayetteville Roots Festival lineup announcement day, everyone. It’s time to open your presents.

Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), Shovels & Rope, Capitol Sun Rays, others to perform at 2021 Fayetteville Roots Fest
As it has for most of the last decade, music from guitars, mandolins, banjos, fiddles, and more will once again ring through the hills of Fayetteville during the last week of August.

Fayetteville Roots Festival postpones 2020 event until August 2021
Fayetteville Roots Festival won’t host an event in 2020, but organizers are hoping to bring the same lineup scheduled this year to Fayetteville in 2021.

Fayetteville Roots Festival 2020 lineup includes Shovels & Rope, Mandolin Orange, The Lone Bellow and more
Fayetteville Roots Festival organizers today announced the lineup for their 2020 event, set for Aug. 26-30 at various venues around town.

WITH PHOTOS: Roots Fest Finale – A calm(ish) ending to a weekend of stories old and new
Roots music comes in many forms, but it’s familiar and comforting. Just like the Fayetteville Roots Festival, now 10 years into its run.

WITH PHOTOS: Roots Fest Day 3 – Juggling the hard choices on a day filled with food and music
The food elements of the festival have been made into an event rivaling the mainstage music, and no one can be excused for choosing one over the other.

WITH PHOTOS: The Roots Fest goes all in on The Band in a Fayetteville-centric tribute
The threads between The Band and the Friday musical guests, and by proxy Fayetteville, are weaved together tightly.

Weekend Flyer: Fayetteville Roots Fest, Soar NWA, Washington County Fair, and more
Live music, events, and more happening in and around Fayetteville for the weekend of Aug. 23-25, 2019.

WITH PHOTOS: Rain can’t overwhelm the firepower of Roots Fest opening night headliner St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Thursday night at the Roots Fest has never had a headliner with the firepower or starpower of St. Paul and the Broken Bones.

VENUE CHANGE: Thursday night Roots Festival events moved to Town Center
Weather conditions, including a chance of thunderstorms, is what promoted the venue change.

Ronnie Hawkins to be honored during Fayetteville Roots Festival
A rock and roll legend will be in town for Fayetteville Roots Festival this year.