Covered Bridge Days

03/03/2026

🎨🎨We are now accepting arts & crafts vendor applications for this year's Covered Bridge Days!! The festival will take place September 25th-27th, 2026. We can't wait to share with you the entertainment we have in store at a later date. Please visit www.coveredbridgedays.org for the arts & crafts vendor applications.

September 25-27, 2026 | Covered Bridge Days is an annual celebration featuring music, vendors, kid's activities, fireworks and more!

09/21/2025

09/20/2025

Saturday September 20 Schedule

*Kid’s Island*
10:00am-7:30pm Inflatables/Attractions
10:00am-10:30am Character Meet & Greet (Barney)
10:30am-11:00am Character Meet & Greet (Sesame Street)
11:00am-11:30am Character Meet & Greet (Blue’s Clues)
11:30am-12:00pm Character Meet & Greet (Pooh & Friends)
1:00pm-2:00pm Magician
3:00pm-4:00pm Magician
5:00pm-6:00pm Character Meet & Greet (Scooby & SpongeBob)

*Elk Ave Bridge Entertainment*
10:00am-8:00pm Craft Vendors and Food Trucks
11:00am-1:00pm Mr. and Miss Covered Bridge Days Pageant
1:30pm-2:00pm Appalachian Irish Dance Co.
2:30pm-3:00pm Covered Bridge Cloggers
3:30pm-4:00pm East Tennessee Ballet Academy
4:30pm-5:00pm Watts Dance Studio

*Main Stage Entertainment*
12:00pm Kickin’ Up Dust
1:30pm Thursday Night Boys
3:10pm Bullseye Band
4:45pm POWERSHIFT
6:15pm Dan Herrell & INK.
8:00pm Dailey & Vincent
Around 9:45pm Fireworks Show

09/18/2025

All of the Covered Bridge Days fun this weekend is bound to make you hungry, but don't worry, we have you covered! Food trucks will be on site all weekend, including
- Rico's Pizza
- Travelin' Tom's Coffee of Johnson City
- The Cardinal Kitchen BBQ & Catering
- Crafty Dog Co.
- Taco51
- Appalachian Ice
- Lakeo Steakhouse of Japan
- Diggy Donuts
- Sideshow Station Concessions
- Good Karma Kettle Corn
- Dr. Enuf
- Tin Can Diner
- Allison Concessions

Covered Bridge Creamery of Tennessee and Fire Pizza will also be ready to serve you, located right across the street from Covered Bridge Park.

09/18/2025

09/18/2025

We are so excited for Covered Bridge Days this weekend! The layout of the event will look a little bit different this year, here is a map of the event along with parking areas in Downtown Elizabethton to help you make your plans!

The fun will kick off at 11 AM on Friday and continue through the weekend with craft vendors, food trucks, dance performances, live music, FREE inflatables, magic shows, character meet and greets, and more! Check out the full schedule at https://coveredbridgedays.org/schedule/

Thanks to our headline sponsor, Tour Carter County!

09/16/2025

🥁 Drum roll please! 🥁

We are excited to announce this year's headlining entertainment schedule for Covered Bridge Days!

Friday, September 19- Seldom Scene : Since they started up together in 1971, The Seldom Scene has dexterously performed original and traditional songs while presenting fiery and soulful reinterpretations of material by Merle Haggard, James Taylor, and more. The concept of bluegrass unshackling itself from a conservative, straight-ahead mindset seems like a given now, when some of its biggest stars fill stadiums and cross over with mainstream audiences, but the continued presence of the Scene acts as a reminder that it wasn’t always so. Even if their playing style feels more at home in intimate clubs, where the audience can feel their exuberance radiating from the stage, the Scene’s elastic relationship to genre established an important precedent that encouraged their contemporaries and allowed bluegrass bands to expand their repertoire in ways that laid the groundwork for today’s bluegrass boom.

Saturday, September 20- Dailey & Vincent: Grand Ole Opry Members, five-time GRAMMY® Award winners individually, three-time GRAMMY®
Award nominees collectively, four-time DOVE Award winners and winners of 35 IBMA Awards altogether (including 3-time IBMA Entertainer of the Year Award winners and 3-Time Vocal Group of the Year Award winners), Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent (and their world-class band) offer a unique and modernized spin on ‘American music’ - “the best of country, bluegrass and gospel this side of heaven” (USA Today) - the duo has played across the globe, taking the stage at iconic venues including the Ryman Auditorium and Carnegie Hall. Now on Season 5 of their nationally broadcast television series, The Dailey & Vincent Show on the Circle Network (and previously RFD TV), Dailey & Vincent bring their music to a national audience on a weekly basis

Sunday, September 21- The Martins: Siblings, Joyce, Jonathan and Judy, collectively known as The Martins, have enjoyed countless radio hits and performances at concert halls, arenas, auditoriums and churches worldwide. During the 1990s, The Martins rose to national and international success, showcasing their stunning and distinctive harmonies before a vast array of audiences, from legendary singer/ songwriter Bill Gaither’s multi-award-winning Homecoming Video and Concert Series to the White House to Carnegie Hall. Over the years the Trio garnered eight Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association, as well as a prestigious Grammy nomination.

In addition to the headlining acts, the festival will feature arts and craft vendors, local entertainment, local food trucks, and family-friendly activities

08/19/2025

Artist Spotlight for Covered Bridge Days! Today, we are featuring The Martins, who will be playing on Sunday, September 21st.

Siblings, Joyce, Jonathan and Judy, collectively known as The Martins, have enjoyed countless radio hits and performances at concert halls, arenas, auditoriums and churches worldwide. During the 1990s, The Martins rose to national and international success, showcasing their stunning and distinctive harmonies before a vast array of audiences, from legendary singer/ songwriter Bill Gaither’s multi-award winning Homecoming Video and Concert Series to the White House to Carnegie Hall. Over the years the Trio garnered eight Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association, as well as a prestigious Grammy nomination.

08/15/2025

Artist Spotlight! Dailey & Vincent will be joining us on the Covered Bridge Stage on Saturday, September 20!

Grand Ole Opry Members, five-time GRAMMY® Award winners individually, three-time GRAMMY® Award nominees collectively, four-time DOVE Award winners and winners of 35 IBMA Awards altogether (including 3-time IBMA Entertainer of the Year Award winners and 3-Time Vocal Group of the Year Award winners), Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent (and their world-class band) offer a unique and modernized spin on ‘American music’ - “the best of country, bluegrass and gospel this side of heaven” (USA Today)

The duo has played across the globe, taking the stage at iconic venues including the Ryman Auditorium and Carnegie Hall. Now on Season 5 of their nationally broadcast television series, The Dailey & Vincent Show on the Circle Network (and previously RFD TV), Dailey & Vincent bring their music to a national audience on a weekly basis.

After a decade spent performing together and with over 1,000 airings of their PBS special Dailey & Vincent ALIVE – In Concert, their concoction of fantastically instinctive vocal blends of Dailey’s tenor and Vincent’s reedy harmonies has gained them well-deserved praise for their own distinctive style and worldwide recognition as American music gold. The duo has also created their own festival brand called Dailey & Vincent’s American Made Music Festivals where they bring artists such as Martina McBride, Josh Turner, Shenandoah, Del McCoury, The Isaacs, Ricky Skaggs, and other famed country, bluegrass, and gospel artists throughout the Southeast.

Their most recent live CD, “Dailey & Vincent ALIVE,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass charts and remained at the top position for over 15 weeks. Dailey & Vincent’s first-ever Christmas album, “Dailey & Vincent: The Sounds of Christmas” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart and No. 8 on the Billboard Holiday Chart, landing right behind Michael Bublé and Pentatonix as the only country, bluegrass and gospel act in the Top Ten.

08/15/2025

Covered Bridge Days artist spotlight! Seldom Scene will be playing on the Covered Bridge Stage on Friday, September 19th to kick off this year's Covered Bridge Days festival!

Fifty-three years into a legendary career, much has changed about The Seldom Scene, starting with the venerable progressive bluegrass quintet’s various lineup iterations over time. But even as band members have stepped in and out of various roles, what’s most important is what hasn’t changed: an undeniable knack for blending both old and new music and traditions without sacrificing what makes either potent and durable. Their current iteration is a true blue lineup: guitarist mandolin player Lou Reid, bassist Ronnie Simpkins, banjoist and fiddler Ron Stewart, dobro player Fred Travers, and guitarist Clay Hess.

Since they started up together in 1971, The Seldom Scene has dexterously performed original and traditional songs while presenting fiery and soulful reinterpretations of material by Merle Haggard, James Taylor, and more. The concept of bluegrass unshackling itself from a conservative, straight-ahead mindset seems like a given now, when some of its biggest stars fill stadiums and cross over with mainstream audiences, but the continued presence of the Scene acts as a reminder that it wasn’t always so. Even if their playing style feels more at home in intimate clubs, where the audience can feel their exuberance radiating from the stage, the Scene’s elastic relationship to genre established an important precedent that encouraged their contemporaries and allowed bluegrass bands to expand their repertoire in ways that laid the groundwork for today’s bluegrass boom.