On Labor Day weekend, the Appaloosa Roots Music Festival was the place to be in the Blue Ridge Mountains for listening to music and dancing the days away.
The festival is held in “a town for all seasons” — Front Royal, Virginia, at Skyline Ranch Resort, which is only one hour from Washington, DC.
Camping was available onsite, plus opportunities in the area to hike, horseback ride, canoe, fish, bike, and more since they’re so close to the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Appaloosa Music Festival was created by brothers Alexander and Danylo Fedoryka of the band Scythian. This unforgettable festival experience was started in 2015 to spotlight and celebrate roots music performed by local and international musicians that are up and coming.
As the band Scythian, they travel the world performing and recruiting a mix of music artists from various genres that they like and feature them at the Appaloosa Festival.
Here’s a list of the bands that performed at Appaloosa on Sept. 2-3:
• Scythian
• Carbon Leaf
• Blue Highway
• Screaming Orphans
• Chatham Rabbits
• Christian Lopez
• Kat Higgins
• Presley Barker
• Bee Taylor
• Brennan Edwards
• The Foreign Landers
• Arbo
• Hillary Klug
• TopHouse
• Jake Kohn
• Ben-David Warner Band
• Low Water Bridge Band
• Honeyday
• Smoke and The Poet
• Red Luck Trio
• Pickin’ Thistles
• Cake for Dinner
Chester Simpson was there to shoot video and photograph the show! These are his photos; all pictures copyright and courtesy of Chester Simpson.
Scythian
Scythian soundchecks at Appaloosa on Sept. 1:
Presley Barker
Pressly Barker performs at Appaloosa:
Carbon Leaf
Scythian
Bee Taylor
Bee Taylor performs at Appaloosa:
Bee Taylor performs at Appaloosa:
Cake for Dinner: Kids Tent
Scythian performs “Cake for Dinner” at Appaloosa:
Scythian performs in the kid’s tent at Appaloosa:
Christian and Skyler Lopez
Christian Lopez
Christian Lopez performs at Appaloosa:
Blue Highway
Blue Highway performs at Appaloosa:
Screaming Orphans
Screaming Orphans perform at Appaloosa:
