This is the longest running ‘old-time’ music festival in Mid-America. It runs for four days with three stages plus some jamming rooms. CD of the Year awards in old-time music are made by the Rural Roots Music Commission. Hall of Fame inductees in America’s Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame which is displayed in the Pioneer Music Museum is hosted by the National Traditional Country Music Association. Top names in old-time country, folk, and blues music have been appearing at the event for all 44 years. Directed by Bob & Sheila Everhart, Smithsonian Institution recording artists. Bob is also a record reviewer of old-time music for Country Music News International, as well as writing and printing his own magazine “Tradition.”