Red Ants Pants Music Festival

The fun starts with a street dance downtown Thursday and runs through Sunday with live music at the festival grounds. This year’s roster includes 21-time nominated, multiple Grammy Award winner Dwight Yoakam, and country superstars Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan, with their highly successful Grits and Glamour Tour. The line-up will also include Shovels and Rope, the Steep Canyon Rangers, Junior Brown, Jim Lauderdale, Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band, The Secret Sisters, HONEYHONEY, Lindi Ortega and more. The festival is designed to bring people together and support the Red Ants Pants Foundation, which is dedicated to women’s leadership, working family farms and ranches, and rural communities. The festival was founded and is produced by Red Ants Pants owner Sarah Calhoun and remains a homegrown celebration, run by a dedicated crew and 250 festival volunteers. Offerings also include agriculture and work skill demonstrations, a yodeling contest and the annual Beard and Moustache and Cross-Cut Sawing competitions, plus local food, beer, wine, art and crafts.