You can’t swing a dead cat in this state without hitting a music festival of one sort or another but for my money, the Belfast edition of the All Roads Music Festival is, pound for pound, your best live music value.
You can snag early-bird tickets at substantial savings here.
Tightly curated, the Belfast edition of the All Roads Festival takes over the quaint, seaside village for two days in October, featuring some of Maine’s best musicians at venues both traditional and non-traditional throughout downtown. It’s a smorgasbord of killer shows.
And this year’s Belfast All Roads Festival will be headlined by the award-winning Wolff Sisters, an astonishingly gifted trio of sisters – Rebecca on acoustic guitar, Kat on the keys, Rachael on electric guitar, and all three on lead vocals and harmonies. They grew up on Bob Dylan, The Band, and Little Feat, and they crafted their achingly beautiful sound around a honky tonk piano in the living room of their childhood home.
Stephanie Ryann, a Nashville-based country artist known for her strong traditional vocal foundation and modern, story-driven songwriting, is also on the bill.
Ryann’s journey has been anything but conventional; a former volunteer firefighter turned fashion model turned country artist, she’s paid her dues in dive bars, honky-tonks, and festivals, earning a reputation for her powerhouse vocals and genuine connection with audiences.
And she puts on a helluva show.
Beyond the two headliners, the All Roads Belfast edition is stacked with a roster of Maine artists that other festivals can only aspire to imitate, never mind duplicate, including:
- 13 Scotland Road
- Alice Limoges
- Boy Scout
- The Bumbling Woohas
- City Planners
- The Cold Creeps
- Cryin’ Caleb Aaron
- General Farwell
- Intricate Mouse Work
- Issac Raven
- Joel Thetford
- Leaf
- Mediocre Men
- Katherine Perkins
- Plague Dad
- Small Pond
- Sorry Safari
- Sunburned Sharks
- Talons of Spring
- Vices Inc.
- XO
Tickets are gonna go fast for this one, so get in early and grab ‘em while you can. See you there.