Youngsters learning Bluegrass at Jams at Graves Mountain Campground

Just one Bluegrass Pickers' Jam is left for 2024

  • Halloween - October  25-27
    BooGrass - with Trunk or Trick for the Community down at the Market
    And The Haunted Packing Shed - a journey of scares, all done by the community with $10 donation per person.


And Then
Six more Jamming Weekends for  2025

Dates

  • Jan 31 - Feb 2 - Friday to Sunday wrap-up with discounted rooms and meals, we call it "February Fever"
  • Feb 27 - Mar 2 - added day, Thursday to Sunday wrap-up with discounted rooms and meals, but please pay for your camping. We call it "Pickin' in the Blue Ridge".  A $10 pp Donation to Youth Bluegrass Classes is requested.
  • Apr 18-20 - Friday to Sunday wrap-up with discounted rooms and meals, but please pay for your camping. We call it "Spring Jam"
  • May 29 - June 1 - Thursday (or earlier if you choose as many ppl come Tues and Weds) to Sunday wrap-up. Must pay for Festival tickets. camping Thurs - Sun is included. We call it the "Festival Jam"
  • Aug 18 -20  Friday to Sunday wrap-up with discounted rooms and meals, but please pay for your camping. We call it "Summer Jam"
  • Oct 31 -  Nov 2 - Friday to Sunday wrap-up with discounted rooms and meals, but please pay for your camping. We call it "BooGrass"

These are not "Festivals"
- Rather a Community of  Bluegrass Pickers

Vince May, the volunteer jams organizer says, "Please keep in mind that these are not music festivals with paid performers, rather these are informal community "jams" with both dedicated and learning Bluegrass pickers coming together for weekends of music, fun and a beverage or three."

Pickers are free-form in the Campground. As always.
The campground sits at the foothills of the mountains of the Blue Ridge, 11 miles west of Madison, VA, surrounded by 1800 acres of farm with animals, horses, meadow, forest and home style southern cooking at the Lodge.  Overnight lodging in Lodge rooms or cabins, is available.

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Friday- Saturday Nights
The jam weekends get tuned up for picking on the Friday night and continue through Saturday night with a leisurely pack up of RV and car on Sunday.

Bring an Instrument and Join In
Please bring your instrument and sit in, bring a camp chair and listen, cruise from campsite to campsite, listening.

Vince May - Wernick Method Workshops at Graves Mountain Farm
For Beginning Jammers

Learn to Jam with Graves Mountain Jam Coaches.

Teaching Jamming as part of the jam weekends.