The Jam Class will be held by Bruce Thompson during the festival weekend at shelter #2

Are you curious about jumping into Bluegrass Jams but not sure where to start?

The Sugar Maple Music Festival is thrilled to host its first Wernick Method Jam Class at the festival this year, taught by Bruce Thompson! Class will be on-site both Friday afternoon and Saturday morning of the festival and requires registration separate from the festival.

For more information about the class, check out the class flyer here. Registration can be done onsite but pre-registration is preferred (and there’s a discount with pre-registration) through the Wernick Method website here.

Buy discounted tickets for our 23rd festival during this incredible one-day sale!

Deeply discounted two-day passes the 2026 Sugar Maple Music Festival will be on sale this year for one day only – Cyber Monday, December 1, 2025. Our 23rd annual festival promises to be extra special, and you won’t want to miss it. For just $40, you’ll be able to pick up a weekend pass for the July 31 and August 1, 2026 event. This same pass will cost $75 at the gate in July, so mark your calendar and don’t miss this chance to save $35 per ticket. Sugar Maple tickets make great holiday gifts! 

Order your cyber tickets on our ticket page (starting at 12:01 am December 1.)

Buy discounted tickets for our 21st festival during this incredible one-day sale!

Deeply discounted two-day passes the 2024 Sugar Maple Music Festival will be on sale this year for one day only – Cyber Monday, November 27, 2023. Our 21st annual festival promises to be extra special, and you won’t want to miss it. For just $40, you’ll be able to pick up a weekend pass for the August 2 and 3, 2024 event. This same pass will cost $70 at the door in August, so mark your calendar and don’t miss this chance to save $30 per ticket. Sugar Maple tickets make great holiday gifts! 

Order your cyber tickets on our ticket page (starting at 12:01 am November 27.)

Looking for a great holiday gift for the music lover in your life? Then we have the gift for you!

Sugar Maple Music Festival 2020 tickets will be on sale for one day only this year – Cyber Monday on Dec. 2. For just $20, you’ll be able to purchase a weekend pass for the July 31 and Aug. 1, 2020 event.  It will cost you $50 at the gate, so mark your calendar and don’t miss this chance to get huge savings.

Tickets go on sale here at 12:01 a.m. Monday, Dec. 2

Confirmed artists for the 2020 Sugar Maple Music Festival include the Amythyst Kiah Trio! Born in Chattanooga and based in Johnson City, Amythyst Kiah’s commanding stage presence is matched by her raw and powerful vocals—a deeply moving, hypnotic sound that stirs echoes of a distant and restless past.

Accompanied interchangeably with banjo, acoustic guitar, or a full band, her eclectic influences span decades, finding inspiration in old time music, alternative rock, folk, country, and blues.

Our Native Daughters, her recent collaboration with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell (Birds of Chicago), has delivered a full-length album produced by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, Songs of Our Native Daughters (out now on Smithsonian Folkways). The opening track, “Black Myself”, written by Amythyst, was recently nominated for a Grammy for Best American Roots Song.

This year’s line-up also includes Appalachian Road Show, a group honoring the music, traditions and history of the Appalachian people and regions.  The group is comprised of banjoist Barry Abernathy, mandolinist-extraordinaire Darrell Webb, Grammy-award winning fiddler Jim Vancleve, and legendary upright bassist Todd Phillips.  On guitar is Zeb Snyder, a young phenom taking acoustic guitar circles by storm.

And we have confirmed Robbie Fulks will be back at the Sugar Maple fest performing a Doc Watson Tribute!  Robbie Fulks is a singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter. His most recent release, 2017’s Upland Stories, earned year’s-best recognition from NPR and Rolling Stone among many others, as well as two Grammy nominations, for folk album and American roots song (“Alabama At Night”).  Robbie is a long-time friend of the festival (2004, 2007, 2009 and 2012) and we’re thrilled to welcome him back.

Any one of these performances would be worth the ticket price alone!

More artists to be announced…stay tuned!

Hey gang! For a limited time, Sugar Maple gear is available from our partner, Bonfire! There are kid sizes, hoodies, tanks and t-shirts. Best of all, 100% of profits go toward the fest AND the items will ship directly to you!