Albino Skunk Music Festival

Dean Owens Musician - Official is in country! He'll be playing Saturday Oct 5 backed by Wild Ponies at the 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival. See you there,

Happy Birthday to The Boss, Glynn A. Zeigler. It's a pretty notable one. We won't say how many years, but it's the same one Bruce Springsteen is celebrating today.

Where else can you see your favorite Alt-Country band from L.A. play a tune by your favorite band from Austin, TX? And they're both here soon to help us celebrate our 30th year!
(And a huge thank you to our friends at Brando Jones Films for this video)

I See Hawks In LA Live from Albino Skunk Music Festival Welcome to the official playlist of the Albino Skunk Music Festival, brought to life through the lens of Brando Jones Films. Nestled in the heart of the South Carolina…

Congratulations to Sierra Ferrell on her well-deserved Album and Artist of the year wins last night at the Americana Music Association Awards. She's a three-time Skunker. You know how that goes. Zig knows first. See you in October for the 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival.

Sierra Ferrell "In Dreams" Sierra Ferrell performs "In Dreams"Sierra Ferrell performs "In Dreams" at the Albino Skunk Festival in Greer ,SC on 5-15-21

Speaking of performers heading our way, we close out the 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival with a helping of Ribs and all the fixins.

Albino Skunk Music Festival you know we can't miss this event! We will be there Saturday, Oct 5 and I hope you will be there too! Check out their website for all the deets and get ready to PARTY!

Love to see our fall artists circling the area then heading our way. And if you're up in Maryland, catch the shows with Sunny Sweeney, that's a great double bill.

Looking forward to kicking off the fall with some great shows! Tix at http://thescottmiller.com The Southgate House Revival Albino Skunk Music Festival Rams Head On Stage Wayne Theatre Sunny Sweeney

Margo Price and Billy Strings released a cover version of Too Stoned to Cry today. Skunkers will remember the original, by Andrew Combs. Happy Friday, everyone.

Andrew Combs - "Too Stoned To Cry" Nashville based singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Andrew Combs, performs his song, "Too Stoned To Cry" from his CD, "Worried Man", at the Albino Skunk Music...

We still have some volunteer shifts available for the 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival. With our added day of music for our special 30th year fest, we've got added needs. Our crew is a fun group to get to know while you earn a ticket. We all share a love of music and community. See the link for details. https://mailchi.mp/albinoskunk.com/volunteer-sign-up-bi1hy0am57?e=c4366afa1e

We are again directing the proceeds of DeTour de Skunk (at the 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival) to Joshua Ray Walker to defray the costs of and his ongoing cancer treatment and the resulting time off the road. He's a unique talent we plan to have back on our stage as soon as he is able, hopefully in 2025. To make an immediate donation and learn more, you can use this GoFundMe link https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-joshua-ray-walkers-fight-against-colon-cancer?

HEALTH UPDATE:
Hey y’all! Once again, I’ve got some good and bad news to deliver. The good news is that I’ve finished chemo treatment! It was extremely tough, and I want to thank y’all so much for supporting me through this experience. My body handled it reasonably well, and I’ve begun to rebuild my strength and immune system! The bad news is that upon the completion of tests to check on the status of my cancer post treatment, multiple nodes of varying sizes were found in both my lungs.
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Before I started chemo, I was told I had a 90% chance of having clear tests post treatment. So to find completely new growth in a new organ was something for which I was not prepared. This unfortunately means my cancer will likely be restaged to stage 4. I will get a lung biopsy, and start radiation soon. I wish I had more information to share but I’m still waiting to meet with a radiology oncologist following my biopsy surgery. I will keep y’all as updated as possible, and I will continue to fight my hardest. The odds have definitely shifted, but I’m not going to publish them here. It seems defeatist, and unnecessary. I’ll let you know what they were after I beat them. I’ve always lived life to the fullest and I will continue to do so.
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When times are hard my instinct is to figure out how to survive financially. I work harder to ensure that me and my loved ones will have basic necessities. This trait has been very useful in life, but it makes it hard to rest when life’s difficulties aren’t solely monetary. I have a hard time asking for help, even when I believe it will be given happily. I’m launching a GoFundMe that will allow me to focus exclusively on my health and relationships during this precious time. I thank everyone so much in advance for their continued love and support. Love y’all so much.
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It's the last day of early bird discounted pricing, and there are only 4 Reserved RV sites left for ASMF'24. WHAT are you waiting for? Visit albinoskunk.com/tickets RN!

Early bird ticket prices for the '24 Albino Skunk Music Festival end Friday night (September 6). Join us for our 30th Fall fest, October 2-5, 2024, in Greer, SC. Details and tickets at albinoskunk.com.

Thinking a lot lately about past fests, performers and attendees alike. So many have helped us in so many ways to create this fiercely independent musical family reunion. Many are no longer with us, at least physically. Photo on the left is the stage from our first Skunkfest, Friday September 29, 1995. Music started at 6:30 pm for our one evening party. The orange tarp is where part of our stage is now, the tree is long gone.
We started out as a small backyard gathering of friends to listen to live music. After 30 years, we’ve evolved into pretty much still a backyard gathering of friends listening to live music.

Early Bird pricing for our big 30th year fall fest ends in 9 days. And we're almost out of Reserved RV sites. You know what to do.
>> albinoskunk.com/tickets

Here we are, in our 30th year of Fall festivals (it's Fest:30 somewhere), with a huge roster of returning favorites, spread over *four* days and nights. We expect the 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival will be our biggest and best ever. Feel free to share our poster to your page or to others where it would be appreciated. Early Bird ticket pricing ends just after Labor Day. And we're almost sold out of Reserved RV spots. Info and shopping cart at albinoskunk.com.

We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing last week of our dear friend ,Steve ‘Little King’ Metcalf. Steve made a huge & lasting impact on live music here in our area. And we all loved him, one of those people we loved to know.
The SkunkBoys made numerous trips to Green Acres to enjoy phenomenal shows, even before we were SkunkBoys. Our first live music excursion in our 1951 GMC SkunkBus was to Green Acres. We witnessed numerous national touring artists there. Just a few pictured below, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones ,Leftover Salmon, Sam Bush, Darrell Scott, John Cowan Music and the guys who originally worked the parking lot - Acoustic Syndicate. Not pictured, David Grisman signed ‘Dawg was here!’ on the SkunkBus there.
And we were always were delighted and honored to have Steve join us at SkunkFests.

So it’s an appropriate time to make this announcement.
We are celebrating our 30th year of SkunkFests in October. There will be a ‘Wall of Remembrance’ set up for our Skunkers (patrons) to post pictures and notes commentating our music friends who are no longer with us. We’ve lost artists, SkunkBoys, Skunkers and volunteers over these years.
We want to honor them at a place where we all enjoyed our live music gathering.
So, let’s all give a big shout out to the memory of Little King - 1 2 3 FES-TAA-VUL!

Early Bird ASMF '24 ticket prices end just after Labor Day. And we're down to only **TEN** reserved RV sites. Grab your tickets now (albinoskunk.com) before prices go up, come hear these folks sangin, then use the savings on artist merch. Win-Win-Win!

Mia and Jay are long time regulars at Skunkfest. If you know them, you know that Dem's Good Beeble! Jay had a serious fall on Sunday and could use some help. If you are able, a donation would be greatly appreciated. Details on the GoFundMe link below.

Donate to Donate to Aid Jay's Healing and Recovery, organized by Lillie Williams Hey Friends, I’m going to be asking for your help. If you are our friends, yo… Lillie Williams needs your support for Donate to Aid Jay's Healing and Recovery

You may have noticed we snuck in another act for the 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival. Zig can't help himself sometimes. We're happy to have Wild Ponies return. They'll play an early set on Saturday, then they'll back up Dean Owens Musician - Official's set, as their Skunkfest alter egos, Merle Haggis and the Shetland Ponies. Great fun!

SPOTLIGHT: On ‘Dreamers,’ Wild Ponies Let Love Take the Reins What Doug and Telisha Williams know about love comes out in their songs and in how they live their lives. Maybe it’s messy sometimes, but it never misses the mark.

Here we are, in our 30th year of Fall festivals (it's Fest:30 somewhere), with a huge roster of returning favorites, spread over *four* days and nights. We expect the 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival will be our biggest and best ever. Feel free to share our poster to your page or to others where it would be appreciated. Early Bird ticket pricing ends just after Labor Day. And we're almost sold out of Reserved RV spots. Info and shopping cart at albinoskunk.com.

Volunteer shift signup is today, Friday August 9 at 10am, at albinoskunk.com/volunteer. Link to our signup app is at the bottom of that page.

2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival volunteer shift signup begins at 10am Friday, August 9 on our website (link at bottom of this page albinoskunk.com/volunteer). Thanks in advance, we could not do it without you!

The Eddie 9V and Brooks Dixon show on Thursday night has been moved to The Velo Fellow, while they finish up on the new The Radio Room site. It's a Midsummer night's dream, skunkers! See you there?

GREENVILLE SC. Venue change*** due to construction delays at The Radio Room we are moving the show to The Velo Fellow. Cant wait to see you guys!

We've listed who is playing and on what day(s) on our website's Music/Lineup page. Artist previews and stage schedule are coming there soon. We've added one-day and two-day tickets and detour de skunk tickets to our ticketing page. Note one change this Fall - We still have Wednesday ADD-ON tickets for folks staying through the full weekend and camping, and we now also have Wednesday ONLY tickets for one day visitors. It's really a four-day festival this Fall. Finally, we have only 15 Reserved RV sites left (all in North Lot). All this and more at albinoskunk.com.

Jim Lauderdale and Aaron Raitiere are prolific songwriters to say the least. Jim's released well over 30 albums and has shared songwriting credits with all kinds of folks, from Robert Hunter to Elvis Costello to Rodney Crowell to his wingman Buddy Miller to Aaron Raitiere and so forth. If Jim hasn't written a song with you yet, he probably will soon. And Aaron cranks out witty and catchy songs faster than we can keep up with. His Instagram Reel of "My Friend, Ben" filmed at SpringSkunk is currently up to 9.4 MILLION streams. This photo from our last festival caught Jim and Aaron co-writing songs backstage (looks like a fun job, doesn't it?) So here's a treat for the Fall festival. On Wednesday evening after their individual sets, Jim and Aaron will collaborate with YOU: they're going to co-write a song live, on-stage, with Skunkfest audience input. Then, we'll finish the night with Caleb Caudle and Ruen Brothers full band sets. How bout them apples? Wait. Is that the song title or the first line of the chorus? We'll find out on October 2!

For a listing of which artists are performing which daze, check out the details on our FB event page for Fall Skunk, 2024 Albino Skunk Music Festival. Stage schedule to come later. Wednesday evening, though ... stay tuned for one more announcement. Some "usually-on-the-weekend" artists are on the list for Wednesday this time. We'll also have some music from main-stage performers on the Kidthedral stage too. Look for details on that as we get closer to fest time. Also, if you have a friend named Ben, you should invite him to attend.