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38 What's up! september 25-OctOber 1, 2022 "We appreciate being welcomed into the community that Jon [Walker] and everyone there have built. It's felt like home from the beginning, so we really appreciate being a part of it," says cary harmon about the hillberry harvest moon music Festival. his band, railroad earth, will return to Northwest arkansas for the event in eureka springs sept. 29-Oct. 2. the New Jersey-based group has been making bluegrass- infused americana music for the last 20 years and are a festival favorite at hillberry. (courtesy photo/Liina raud) Arkansauce, the region's favorite newgrass quartet, returns to the hillberry harvest moon Festival for a set late thursday night and into Friday morning. Other local bands appearing at hillberry this year include Danny spain Gang, eureka strings, the Damn Neighbors, rachel ammons, country Jesus, charlie mellinger band, sprungbilly, skye pollard and the Family holler, the Gravel Yard and Opal agafia. (courtesy photo) national musicians. "We also have a live art tent. We feature a bunch of artists in the area. They'll come in, they display their paints, they're all doing live art as well. So I mean, there's constantly stuff going on over the entire venue. I mean, we typically have around 3,500 to 4,000 people out there. The majority of them are there for the entire duration." Camping "We're going to open the gates on Wednesday, the 28th. That way people can come in a day early, they can camp, you know, kind of get ready. We had a lot of traffic, a lot of congestion, coming in last year. So hopefully that'll relieve some of the traffic coming into the venue." Walker says that while RV spots are sold out, camping on-site is available. "Camping does come with ticket purchase. So you know when you come in, you basically camp by your car," Walker says. "The venue itself is amazing. It's 160 acres. We butt up to Mark Twain National Forest. We've got three miles of hiking and biking trails. We have an 18-hole disc golf course." Railroad Earth Cary Harmon, the drummer for Railroad Earth, says that they have had a busy summer, and he's looking forward to a more low-key fall and returning to the beautiful hills of Eureka Springs. "We were busy for the first time in a long time. You know, everybody was somewhat on hiatus the past couple of years, as far as live shows with everything that's been going on, but we were busy. We played a lot of festivals this summer, did a lot of traveling and sort of easing into a little bit slower fall, which is welcome, which is great. So it's been a good year." Railroad Earth returns to the Hillberry Harvest Moon Festival this year for two performances at 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday to play old favorites and songs from their latest release, "All for the Song." "Interestingly enough, it too got interrupted by covid and everything that happened over the past couple of years. We made it in 2019. And we started to release it in early 2020. But were shut down in March. So we decided to sort of hold on to it and wait until everyone was kind of back and we could be out playing these songs and that kind of stuff. So we put it back out this year for real," Harmon explains. "It's interesting to be that far away from making a record and putting out that same record." Hillberry Continued From Page 12 eureka sPrings Rachel Ammons puts a whole new spin on the term "multi-instrumentalist" while playing multiple instruments simultaneously. the bluesy songstress is scheduled to play at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the hillberry harvest moon Festival at the Farm in eureka springs. (NWa Democrat-Gazette/monica hooper)