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4th Annual Big Bend Bluegrass Festival Oct 3-4, 2025, mountain outline with guitar

THE HOTTEST BLUEGRASS LINEUP IN FAR WEST TEXAS!

Bluegrass music is in Far West Texas! The City of Alpine and the Big Bend Bluegrass Association are proud to host the annual Big Bend Bluegrass Festival.  Performing is the Larry Stephenson Band, Edgar Loudermilk Band, Purple Hulls and more!  Get your tickets now!

ABOUT THE 2025 LINEUP

Larry Stephenson Band

The award-winning Larry Stephenson Band has been entertaining audiences for 30 years
including their numerous performances on the Grand Ole Opry, RFD-TV and headlining festivals
and concerts across the US and Canada. The group is led by Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame
member and 5-time Society for The Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA) Male
Vocalist of the year. They also inducted Stephenson into their Hall of Greats in 2018. With
numerous IBMA and SPBGMA nominations and awards, Larry records on his own label,
Whysper Dream Music. 

Highly regarded, as one of Bluegrass music’s most recognizable and finest high lead and tenor
vocalist, Larry Stephenson has been headlining festivals and concerts for 30 years. He formed
The Larry Stephenson Band in 1989 while living in his home state of Virginia.
Larry’s crystal-clear tenor voice has provided a musical home for some of the finest sidemen in
contemporary bluegrass history. Many appearances on the Grand Ole Opry and RFD-TV has
made The Larry Stephenson Band a fan favorite across the US and Canada.

EDGAR LOUDERMILK BAND

  • 2024  SPBGMA Bass Player of the Year
  • 2023  SPBGMA Bass Player of the Year
  • 2023 Male Vocalist of the Year
  • Evan Dickerson Bluegrass Band of the Year Award
  • Evan Dickerson Banjo Player of the Year Award

Rural Rhythm Records recording artist Edgar Loudermilk’s signature voice, bass skills, and songwriting are a family tradition for this Louvin Brothers’ descendant. Loudermilk’s distinctive and powerful vocals cut to the heart of a song, while also winning over audiences with his friendly, down-home style.  Having experienced a long tenure of performing, including several industry awards, with IIIrd Tyme Out, Rhonda Vincent, and Marty Raybon. Edgar has also had monumental success with the IBMA Emerging Artist nomination for his duo work with Adkins & Loudermilk. Edgar wrote or co-wrote the majority of the music that topped and still remains on the bluegrass charts from the Adkins & Loudermilk album release. Edgar’s music is a mainstay on bluegrass radio and he has been a “Most Played” Sirius Bluegrass Radio Musician since his start.

Purple Hulls

Born and raised on a working family farm in deep East Texas, identical red-headed twins Katy Lou and Penny Lea Clark learned the value of hard work and the goodness of country life, and were blessed to grow up in an environment that cultivated their God given apt for music. With music and athletic ability in their family blood, it came as little surprise when the twins made their way to play basketball and study music at South Plains College in Levelland, TX. After three years in West Texas, the Clarks moved to the hills of Tennessee, where they quickly gained work touring as backing musicians for various country artists, working for the Grand Ole Opry, and writing songs for Nashville’s biggest publishing company, Sony ATV. After five fruitful years in Music City and the Lord leading them back to their home state, The Purple Hulls continue their travels based from their family farm (where they really grow purple hulls peas!) and for the last twelve years have been sharing their unique and authentic, uplifting and energetic acoustic driven music with churches, festivals, and venues across the horizons of America & Europe.

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Friday Performances

4:30-5:20 PM              Finley River Boys

5:30-6:20 PM              Bobby Giles & Texas Gales

6:30-7:20 PM              SpringStreet

7:30-8:20 PM              Hillbilly Fever  

8:30-9:20 PM              Edgar Loudermilk Band

9:30-10:20 PM            Special Consensus     

Saturday Workshops

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM              Songwriters workshop

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM             Guitar workshop, Mandolin workshop

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM                 Children’s harmonica

Saturday Performances

11:15 – 11:50 PM       Sul Ross Guitar Ensemble

12:00 – 12:45 PM       Finley River Boys

1:00 – 1:45 PM           Hillbilly Fever

2:00 – 2:45 PM           SpringStreet  

3:00 – 3:45 PM           Edgar Loudermilk

4:00 – 4:45 PM           Special Consensus

5:00 -5:45 PM             Hillbilly Fever

6:00-6:45 PM              Finley River Boys   

7:00-7:45 PM              Bobby Giles & Texas Gales

8:00-8:45 PM              SpringStreet

9:00-9:45 PM              Edgar Loudermilk Band

10:00                           Special Consensus     

Lineup/schedule is subject to change