Bear Shadow festival on tap

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  • Photo by Michael O’Hearn/Staff The Bear Shadow Music Festival will return to Winfield Farm in Scaly Mountain on Friday night to kick off a three-day stretch of live music, food and cocktails.
    Photo by Michael O’Hearn/Staff The Bear Shadow Music Festival will return to Winfield Farm in Scaly Mountain on Friday night to kick off a three-day stretch of live music, food and cocktails.
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Music will be ringing through the mountains of Macon County when the Bear Shadow Music Festival opens its second run on Friday.

The annual three-day music festival at Winfield Farm in Scaly Mountain will feature a full slate of nationally known musical acts, along with unique foods and beverages.

Headliners for the weekend-long event include Grammy-nominated Band of Horses, Grammy-award winning Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and Billboard chart-topper Trampled by Turtles.

• Band of Horses: Grammy-nominated rock group Band of Horses will headline the Friday night lineup at Bear Shadow. The band released its sixth studio album, Things Are Great, in January 2022.

• Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real: Headlining the Saturday show at Bear Shadow, Grammy Award Winning Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real are a rock group with a classic country rock and bluegrass sound. The son of Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson and his band have released seven studio albums and have been the regular backing band to legend Neil Young since 2015.

• Trampled By Turtles: TBT is a renowned bluegrass and folk-rock band from Duluth, Minnesota. Of their nine studio albums, four have topped the Billboard charts,including their fifth release, Palomino, which maintained a Top 10 position on the Billboard Bluegrass charts for 52 weeks.

For more information about the Bear Shadow Music Festival, visit bearshadownc.com.