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Look forward to the 2022 Fall Festival October 7th - 15th from 10am-7pm. With its mild temperatures and beautiful scenery there is no better place to be than the North Georgia Mountains in the fall! Each October, the 9-day event features Arts & Craft vendors, educational demonstrations, and exciting music performances! New for 2022 enjoy carnival rides from Midway Rides Unlimited! Enjoy over a dozen rides including a carosel, ferris wheel, bumper cars & more! Rides for the adults & the kiddos! Plus fair food, games, and more! Concert Line-up: Friday, October 7 - Earls of Leicester & Granny's Mason Jar Saturday, October 8 - Oak Ridge Boys & The South Wind Band Sunday, October 9 - Gospel Music Show featuring Jason Crabb, Gold City, & Jeff & Sheri Easter Monday, October 10 - Malpass Brothers & Steve Bryson Band Tuesday, October 11 - Aaron Tippin & Hunt-r-Greene Wednesday, October 12 - Gene Watson & Mountain Home Music Band Thursday, October 13 - The Bellamy Brothers & Justin Terry Friday, October 14 - Mark Wills & Jim Wood Band Saturday, October 15 - Ashley McBryde

Few Country Music groups have had the enduring popularity, cultural significance or crossover success of The Oak Ridge Boys, a vocal harmony quartet that started out in traditional country and gospel during World War II and evolved with the times to help popularize and modernize Country Music far beyond traditional genre and regional lines.The Oak Ridge Boys have received 15 CMA Awards nominations and won two: Vocal Group of the Year in 1978 and Single of the Year in 1981 for “Elvira” (the group's backing band won CMA Instrumental Group of the Year in 1978 and 1986). The Oaks were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2000. Bonsall and Sterban were inducted into the Philadelphia Music Alliance Walk of Fame in 1994. Golden received the Alabama Music Hall of Fame's Life Work Award for Performing Achievement in 1997. And Duane Allen was honored with induction into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame last year.

Mark Wills has captivated fans and listeners for over two decades. He achieved his first top-charting success at the young age of 23 and has maintained a longevity in the music business that many artist can only dream of. Mark's mission is to create country music filled with depth and meaningful substance to create lasting memories through words. 1-Day Pass: $12 Children 12 and under - FREE! Music shows are included in ticket price. Free Parking - Sorry, No Pets Allowed

In April 2017, Eric Church brought her on stage and called her a “whiskey-drinking badass,” confessing that he's a massive fan. The rest of the world is quickly catching on, too. Dubbed by NPR as “country music's most exciting new country voice” and Rolling Stone citing she's “an Arkansas red-clay badass, with the swagger of Hank Jr. and the songwriting of Miranda Lambert,” Ashley McBryde fearlessly lays it all on the line, and it's that honest all-in approach that has led to The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica to opine that “the still beauty in her singing is impressive, but her easeful storytelling feels practically radical.” McBryde's album showcases an artistic vision that proves her to be one of the genre's keenest working storytellers, bringing unwavering honesty back into a pop-preoccupied genre. Pulling tales from every corner of her human experience – a happenstance love on “A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega,” a neighbor with a heavy past on “Livin' Next to LeRoy,” a girl with an impossibly possible dream on “Girl Goin' Nowhere” – McBryde sings with fire and fury, laughing and swigging that brown stuff along the way. And she doesn't do it in glitter and sequins, either, like a good lady of Music Row. McBryde wears her boots and cracks her jokes: with McBryde, what you see is what you get, and what you get is what you see.

The 2022 Appalachian Brew, Stew, & Que Festival brings you great craft breweries from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina & Alabama. There will also be delicious food from area restaurants, regional arts & crafts, and lots of Appalachian & Americana music!*Sign up to be a volunteer and receive free admission after your shift and all the beer samples you want! Please call the office at 706-896-4191. Tickets are: $40 at the gate or $35 in advance online 63+ Breweries Unlimited Tasting Souvenir Glass Music and Vendors

After more than four decades together, 38 SPECIAL continues to bring their signature blast of Southern Rock to over 100 cities a year. And at each and every show, thousands of audience members are amazed by the explosive power of the band's performance. Their many Gold and Platinum album awards stand in testament to the endurance of a legendary powerhouse. With sales in excess of 20 million, most associate the band with their arena-rock pop smashes, “Hold On Loosely,” “Rockin' Into the Night,” “Caught Up in You,” “Fantasy Girl,” “If I'd Been the One,” “Back Where You Belong,” “Chain Lightnin',” “Second Chance,” and more – Timeless hits that remain a staple at radio, immediately recognizable from the first opening chord, and paving the way to their present-day touring regimen.

“That Little Ol’ Band From Texas” has been at it for well over a half century, delivering rock, blues and boogie on the road and in the studio to millions of devoted fans. With iconography as distinctive as their sound, ZZ TOP is virtually synonymous with beards, hotrod cars, spinning guitars and that magic keychain, all of which transcend geography and language. The elements that keep ZZ TOP fresh, enduring and above the transitory fray can be summed up in the three words of the band’s internal mantra: “Tone, Taste and Tenacity.” They have sold hundreds of millions of records over the course of their career, have been officially designated as Heroes of The State of Texas, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (by Keith Richards, no less) and have been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms. They are true rock icons and, against all odds, they’re really just doing what they’ve always done.