CaveFest

2 Days & Nights of Music + Camping + Cave Tours + Vendors + Food Trucks + Cave Jamming + Cave Yoga & More!

Main Performances Take Place Outdoors at The Caverns Amphitheater • Additional Activities Take Place Underground

On October 8 & 9, The Caverns is proud to present its own festival, CaveFest, featuring a curated line-up including headliners Sam Bush, Leftover Salmon, Infamous Stringdusters, and Yonder Mountain String Band, plus artist-in-residence Lindsay Lou, on-site camping, cave tours, delicious food trucks, local vendors, and much more. Be a part of history at the inaugural CaveFest!

Scheduled for a holiday weekend, the inaugural festival will take full advantage of what The Caverns has to offer above and below ground. Main performances will take place at The Caverns Amphitheater with its ample space for blankets, chairs and dancing and surrounding views of the majestic Cumberland Plateau. The Caverns world-famous underground concert hall will host daily jam sessions, cave yoga, and more.

Of course at CaveFest you can take cave tours and deeper underground adventures. Guests will have two days to get deep and explore beneath the Earth’s surface. The Caverns will offer 60-minute walking tours through the otherworldly Big Room Cave that entwine the unique history of the area, geology and mythology of cave lore. For thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies, Adventure Cave Tours will be available to take guests beyond “Tombstone Pass” to see an underground river, a chamber of soda straw formations, and more.

CaveFest line-up includes:

Sam Bush, Leftover Salmon, Infamous Stringdusters, Yonder Mountain String Band, Rising Appalachia, Jim Lauderdale, Kitchen Dwellers, The Lil Smokies, Sierra Hull, Rumpke Mountain Boys, Lindsay Lou, Larry Keel Experience, Volunteer String Band, Pressing Strings, Sicard Hollow, Kendall Street Company, Taylor Scott Band and more.

*Daily lineups to be announced at a later date.

2 day General Admission tickets are only $99 and include onsite camping. Upgrade your experience with VIP 2 Night Camping or one of the popular Hotel/Bus packages for a comfy stay with a safe ride. The Caverns, recently voted "The Best Venue in the South" by Garden & Gun magazine, is a well known staple in the national music community located in a beautiful rural area of Grundy County, Tennessee. Be there for the first ever CaveFest! $1 of every ticket will be donated to Sewanee Mountain Grotto to help with their cave conservation & education efforts.