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Walnut Valley Festival
Winfield, KS · Music
- When
- September 16–20, 2026
- Where
- Cowley County Fairgrounds · Winfield · KS
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The National Flat-Picking Championships anchor five days of acoustic music on four stages, held on the Cowley County fairgrounds since 1972. Pickers from across the country fill the campground a week before the first note plays.
The history within reach
- Walnut Valley Festivalsame spot
The National Flat-Picking Championships anchor five days of acoustic music on four stages, held on the Cowley County fairgrounds since 1972.
Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech and Lloyd Stearman were all working here at once, and the flat land and clear air made it the Air Capital of the World.
An independent film festival screening shorts and features across Old Town venues, running since 2003.
Kansas had been dry since 1880 and Wichita's saloons ran openly anyway.
- The Dockum sit-in36 mi
Students from the NAACP Youth Council sat at a downtown drugstore counter for three weeks until the owner gave in and desegregated his whole chain, a year and a half before Greensboro, and almost entirely left out of the story afterwards..