🔥 BrightFire Music & Arts Festival🔥
A kaleidoscopic celebration of Life, Hope, and Renewal through music, art, fire, dance, and nature.
At BrightFire, enjoy great music, dance, and mesmerizing fire performances. Indulge in new local art and craftsmanship at the Night Market, grab a bite to eat at one of the delicious food trucks, kick back at the Midnight Mulligan beer garden, make a flower crown, learn to dance at the maypole, play games in the field, rendezvous with fairies for a tea party, or bid at the silent auction. All ages welcome!
Surround yourself in an imaginative artistic experience at the sunset fire-lighting ceremony, premiering an innovative music and dance collaboration by Anne Harris, Fred Dunlap III (composer), & THE MARK dance company.
Activities:
Mainstage Concerts + 5 Acoustic Stages
Night Market (Art, Crafts, Silent Auction)
Food Trucks, Craft Snacks, Beverages
Pilates (Class @ 4:30)
Midnight Mulligan Beer Garden
Whiskey Tasting
DIY Flower Crown Station – Make your Own!
Dance!
Fire Science
Gardening Demos
Games (Potions and Pixels)
Silent Auction (Benefits Safe Alliance)
Performing Artists:
Anne Harris (Blues/American Roots)
Tuatha Dea (Appalachian Rock)
Space Ballet (Trip-Hop Opera)
Master Kie & Your Neighborhood Orchestra (HipHop Chamber Music)
Hey Richard (Punk/Rock)
THE MARK dance company
Movement Migration
Moving Spirits, Inc
Kaustavi Sarkar
& Others!
Schedule:
4:00 – Gates open to Arts Market, 5 Acoustic Stages, Food Trucks, Silent Auction, Activities, Games, etc.
4:30 – Group Pilates
6:00 – Mainstage performances
8:10 – Sunset Fire-Lighting Ceremony
8:30 -10:00: Mainstage performances
BrightFire Music & Arts Festival is a celebration of Life, Hope, and Renewal signifying the start of the summer months.
The festival is an innovative artist-led interpretation of the essence of Beltane. In Celtic tradition, Beltane marked the end of a cold, dark, life-and-death winter and the beginning of renewed life and summer. It is associated with fire, nature, renewed life and growth, joyful celebrations, and an important time in agricultural and pastoral life. Initially, herdsmen in Scotland, Ireland, and Man, would lead their cattle between bonfires to cleanse and prevent disease before entering into the new summer pastures. Ancient communities celebrated this changing season by playing music and dancing near the fires. They would extinguish their home hearths and relight them from the communal Beltane fires as a unifying practice.
A production by Charlotte New Music.
