PICKIN’ & GRINNIN’ IN NORTH GEORGIA

If you go

› What: Boxcar Pinion Bluegrass

Festival

› Where: Mountain Cove Farms, 994 Dougherty Gap Road, Chickamauga, Georgia

› When: 1-9 p.m. today, May 2; 1-10 p.m. Friday, May 3; 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, May 4

› Admission: $85 three-day pass, $20 today only, $30 Friday, $35 Saturday

› For more information: foreverbluegrass.com

The schedule TODAY, MAY 2

› 2 p.m. Grandview Pickers › 3 p.m. Slo Tyme

› 4 p.m. New Grass Express › 5 p.m. Barefoot Nellie and

Company

› 6 p.m. Fox Mountain Express › 7 p.m. Owen and ‘Em

› 8 p.m. The Landon Fitzpatrick

Band

FRIDAY, MAY 3

› 1 p.m. Double Cross Bluegrass

Band

› 2 p.m. Point South Bluegrass › 3 p.m. The New Dismembered

Tennesseans

› 4 p.m. Audie Blaylock and

Redline

› 5 p.m. Edgar Loudermilk Band

featuring Jeff Autry

› 6 p.m. Lone Mountain Band

› 7 p.m. Bent Creek Band

› 8 p.m. Audie Blaylock and

Redline › 9 p.m. Edgar Loudermilk Band featuring Jeff Autry

SATURDAY, MAY 4

› 11:30 a.m. Fiddle School Band

› Noon Southwind Bluegrass

Band

› 1 p.m. Blue Ridge Grass

› 2 p.m. The Crowe Brothers

› 3 p.m. Larry Efaw and The Bluegrass Mountaineers

› 4 p.m. Mountain Cove Bluegrass › 5 p.m. Frances Mooney and

Fontana Sunset

› 6 p.m. Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road

› 7 p.m. The Crowe Brothers

› 8 p.m. Larry Efaw and The Bluegrass Mountaineers

› 9 p.m. Russell Moore & IIIrd

Tyme Out video games is worth our support,” she says.

And always-popular Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out will be Saturday night’s headliner.

Pinion says this festival stresses a family atmosphere, and there will be activities such as craft vendors to browse, disc golf, fire rings and other outdoor recreation offered by Mountain Cove Farms.

Folks who want to stay for the full weekend can rent campsites. All camping reservations require a three-day ticket and threenight minimum stay. Children ages 15 and under camp free with a paying adult.

RV owners are advised there are hairpin curves coming from Lookout Mountain down Dougherty Gap Road. Large RVs coming across Lookout Mountain must travel to the farm via Highway 136/ Highway 193.

To rent a campsite, call 706-820-2228 or 423-432-6276.

FACEBOOK.COM Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers from Ohio are making their first appearance at the Boxcar Pinion Bluegrass Festival.