Hillbilly Days

Pikeville, KY · Festival

When: April 15–17, 2027
Where: Pikeville City Park · Pikeville · KY
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Downtown Pikeville turns into a self-mocking Appalachian carnival each spring, with Shriners in overalls leading a parade to raise money for Shriners Children's Hospital in Lexington. Multiple stages carry bluegrass and country acts alongside an artisan village, food vendors, and a full midway. It has run since 1977 and now draws more than 100,000 visitors.

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Downtown Pikeville turns into a self-mocking Appalachian carnival each spring, with Shriners in overalls leading a parade to raise money for Shriners Children's Hospital in Lexington.
Breaks, the canyon the Russell Fork cut18 mi
The Russell Fork cut a gorge sixteen hundred feet deep straight through Pine Mountain rather than going around it, which is the deepest canyon east of the Mississippi.
The Coal House19 mi
Built out of sixty-five tons of bituminous coal cut into blocks and sealed with varnish, as an advertisement for the product of the Tug Valley.
Matewan, ten dead in a mine war shootout22 mi
Coal company detectives came to evict miners who had joined the union and were confronted by the mayor and police chief Sid Hatfield.
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain sound23 mi
Stanley played banjo in a clawhammer style learned from his mother and sang in a high mountain voice that owed more to Primitive Baptist lining-out than to anything on the radio.