Welcome to Badlands bluegrass festival 2012!

Join us for The Badlands Bluegrass Festival 2012... A Benefit festival for Fort McCoy... at the Poor Farm Festival Grounds on June 15-16-17, 2012. Three days of Bluegrass, Food and a Wild West Show, all to help restore Fort McCoy, for future generations to enjoy!

the music

The lineup features bands such as Johnsons Crossroad, Black Twig Pickers, The Poor Taters, Sneed and McQuade, Jim and Valerie Gabehart, The Half Bad Bluegrass Band, The Wild Rumpus, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge, Serah Morningstar Berger, Mountain Station and more, more, more!

and more!!

We will have "fire pits" on sleds and firewood and a huge main bonfire. There will be two stages... A main stage and side stage, Artists, Vendors, food and a wild west show performed by the Gate City Gunslingers!!

Tickets Available Now Online and At the Gate

3 Day Passes are available now for $45.00 (available from March 1 to June 1 at this price so get your tickets now and save!)

about mccoy fort

It was built by William McCoy, around 1769, apparently as his house and then it was referred to as a fort in various documents in the 1770's. After the Indians in the area attacked Fort Donnally, with a terrible massacre, they broke up into smaller forces and one group attacked Fort McCoy and failed to overcome the settlers hidden inside.
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