MerleFest 2023 in Photographs

MerleFest 2023 in Photographs

Wilkes Community College, Wilkesboro NC

April 27-30, 2023

MerleFest 2023 was a fun weekend of live music, camping,  rainbows, old friends, mud, new friends, good food,  and did I say mud already?   It was a great year for North Carolina’s best music festival despite a little rain and weather.   Here are some of my favorite photos from the 2023 Merlfest Music Festival.

The Avett Brothers

Joshua Ray Walker

Tommy Emmanuel

Little Feat

The Marcus King Band

The Brothers Comatose

The Black Opera 

Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs

Don Flemons

Ben Chapman

Miko Marks

Todd Albright

Lightnin Wells

Casey Noel

Cole Chaney

Terry Baucom’s Dukes of Drive

Ashes and Arrows (2023 Band Contest Winners)

The Po’ Ramblin Boys

Jim Lauderdale 

The High Road

Bella White

The Travelin’ McCrourys

Del McCoury 

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