Rooster Walk 14, headlined by Emmylou Harris and Cory Wong, will feature 4 days and approximately 80 sets of live music, May 23-26,. Check out the full lineup. Primitive festival camping is included with all admission tickets. Children age 12 and under are admitted for free.
The festival will take place Thursday-Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in the rolling foothills surrounding Martinsville, Va. Rooster Walk is a 4-day festival celebrating music, art, and the great outdoors at the idyllic Pop's Farm venue. With 40+ bands performing on 6 different stages, an amazing roster of stellar music steers the Rooster Walk experience.
In addition to approximately 80 sets of live music, the family-friendly Rooster Walk will offer a wide variety of kids' programming, family fun, craft beer, great food, arts and numerous opportunities to enjoy Virginia's great outdoors with kayak river floats, pedal boats, bike rides, yoga, a disc golf course and beautiful on-site camping.
Rooster Walk has a full line of up children's activities in the Kids' Coop! The Kids’ Coop offers a wide variety of constant activities throughout the weekend, including arts and crafts, open mic sessions, live music on the Kids’ Stage, the infamous kids’ parade, a slip’n’slide, hula hooping workshops, face painting, a Mommy & Me Tent (a private space for young and expecting mothers), a playground and so much more! Teenagers will enjoy laser tag, ultimate frisbee, a lounge with electricity, and more in the Teen Scene. Check out the schedule and learn more about why Rooster Walk was voted as the most family friendly festival by readers of Blue Ridge Outdoors.
Ticket giveaway! We have 2 tickets available for one local family to attend Rooster Walk Music & Arts Festival, previously named Best Family Friendly Festival by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine (Value $360). Go for the day or for all four days of the May 23-26 festival located in Southwest Virginia. Kids 12 and under get in FREE! Don't miss your chance on this family vacation giveaway! Enter to win here: Enter to Win Tickets to Rooster Walk.
Rooster Walk has been named one of the Top 5 festivals in the state by the Richmond-Times Dispatch and listed as one of the Best Family Friendly Festivals by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine. It also was voted the region’s Most Creative Charitable Event by readers of Virginia Living Magazine for three consecutive years. The festival was created in memory of late Martinsville natives Edwin “The Rooster” Penn and Walker Shank, who graduated from Martinsville High School in 2000.
A portion of proceeds from the festival will be donated to local and regional charities, including Rooster Walk’s own Penn-Shank Memorial Endowment Scholarship Fund for students at Martinsville High School, and the Rooster Walk Music Instrument Program for public band programs in the local city and county school systems.
The festival is produced by Rooster Walk Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting music, arts and education in its home of Martinsville-Henry County. Since 2009, Rooster Walk Inc. has donated more than $320,000 to local and regional charities.
Many ticket types have sold out or are in low inventory, but Rooster Walk 14 admission tickets do remain and can be purchased at www.roosterwalk.com, which also features all the information needed to plan for an amazing experience.
