BrightFire Music and Arts Festival

4431 Neck Rd, Charlotte NC

30 April, 2022

Description

BrightFire Music & Arts Festival Tickets: Music, Art, Fire, Dance, Nature A beyond-imagination celebration of Life, Hope, and Renewal. At BrightFire, enjoy and indulge in local art and craftsmanship at the Night Market. Grab a bite to eat at one of the delicious food trucks, kick back at the Midnight Mulligan beer garden, make a flower crown, learn to dance at the maypole, play games in the field while listening to concerts with mesmerizing fire performances, and rendezvous at the fairy village for a tea party. All ages welcome! Surround yourself in an imaginative artistic experience during the sunset fire-lighting ceremony, premiering a new innovative music and dance piece by Anne Harris, Fred Dunlap, & THE MARK dance company. Activities: - Mainstage Concerts + 5 intimate acoustic stages - Night Market (Art Show, Crafts, Designer, Innovation, Silent Auction) - Food Trucks, Craft Snacks, Beverages - Pilates (optional class @4:30 & 5:30) - Midnight Mulligan Beer Garden - Flower Crown Station - make your own! - Dance! - Fire Science, History, & Safety - Gardening (demonstrations, starter kits) - Field Games (Potions and Pixels) - Silent Auction (benefits Safe Alliance, donate). Lineup: - Anne Harris (Blues/American Roots) - Tuatha Dea (Appalachian Rock) - Space Ballet (Trip-Hop Opera) - Master Kie & Your Neighborhood Orchestra - Hey Richard - & Several Others Schedule: 4:00 - Gates open to Night Market, 5 Acoustic Stages, Silent Auction, Activities, Games, Garden Social, etc. 4:30 & 5:30 (optional) 2x 30-minute Pilates class 6:00 - Mainstage performances 8:10 - Sunset Fire-Lighting Ceremony 8:30 -10p: Mainstage performances The festival is an innovative artist-led, community-based interpretation of the essence of Beltane. In Celtic tradition, Beltane marked the end of a cold, dark, life-and-death winter and the beginning of renewed life and summer. It is associated with fire, nature, renewed life and growth, joyful celebrations, and an important time in agricultural and pastoral life. Initially, herdsmen in Scotland, Ireland, and Man, would lead their cattle between bonfires to cleanse and prevent disease before entering into the new summer pastures. Ancient communities celebrated this changing season by playing music and dancing near the fire. They would extinguish their home hearths and relight them from the communal Beltane fires as a unifying practice. BrightFire Music & Arts Festival is a celebration of Life, Hope, and Renewal. A production by Charlotte New Music in partnership with Historic Rural Hill, & THE MARK dance company. Silent Auction sales benefit Safe Alliance. Silent auction donation form: