MAMAW Festival

06/30/2025

Support our dear friend and tourism director Brandon by voting for him here!!!

🗳️ VOTE NOW: Brandon Pennington, executive director of the Visit Harlan County Tourist and Convention Commission, is a finalist for the Kentucky Chamber’s Young Professional of the Year Award!

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07/30/2024

Huge thank you to Moonbow Tipple Café & Books for hosting our Author readings. We appreciate you all so much. 💗

07/29/2024

MAMAW Festival: Mountains of Appalachia Music, Arts, and Wellness Festival was such a special day. On July 27th, 2024 Harlan County hosted the first ever MAMAW fest in collaboration with the One Nation One project's Arts for EveryBody campaign. This campaign invites us to talk about how art can make an amazing impact on our physical and mental well-being. We have learned first hand through preparation of this event how making art and building community has made us thrive. We are so proud of each person who helped make this happen and supported us.

Arts For EveryBody goal has been that on July 27, 2024, artists, civic leaders, and community health providers in 18 cities and towns across America simultaneously premiered an array of large-scale participatory art projects which drew on the sounds, styles, and stories of their communities to answer the prompt “No place like home.”

Higher Ground as the artists partnered with Dan Mosley our County Judge Executive as our civic leader, and Clover Fork Clinic of Evarts and Harlan as our Healthcare provider to put on this amazing festival and positively impact our community.

In big cities and rural counties, hundreds of actors, muralists, poets, folk dancers, circus clowns, farmers, flower artists, skaters, cooks, architects, DJs, puppeteers, nurses, mariachi players, bamboo weavers and more took the time to create new works that show the world where they come from. The result will be a celebration of American pluralism–of unity through diversity. From Seattle to Gainesville, from Providence to Honolulu, it will be an outpouring of local joy.

07/29/2024

Thank you all for coming out and making MAMAW Festival so wonderful and unforgettable! We appreciate each vendor, staff member, business, and festival goer who came out yesterday. Special thanks to Arts For EveryBody for making this historic day possible. Community, Arts, and Wellness are all key to how we survive and thrive in Harlan County, Kentucky and across the Appalachian region. We are so luck we were able to celebrate that with all of you. More photos and videos to come. Keep an eye out!💚

07/28/2024

Hey, y'all! MAMAW Festival: Mountains of Appalachia Music, Arts, and Wellness Festival was a huge success and we couldn't be happier with the turnout. That being said, this is a gentle reminder that our area is currently experiencing a surge of Covid-19 outbreaks. Due to the amount of folks who came out to celebrate with us, we just want everyone to make sure that they monitor for symptoms after such a large social event. We gave out free test kits at our booth for this reason! Unfortunately, we have already seen some staff members test positive since then. Mask up and quarantine if you are sick or believe you were exposed. Please take care of yourselves and each other. We love you. 🖤

07/27/2024

A.p. Harbor is always a treat

07/27/2024

MAMAW Festival: Mountains of Appalachia Music, Arts, and Wellness Festival is winding down. Get your last purchases in. We're about to transition over to Harlan Elementary School for Higher Ground 10!

07/27/2024

The Local Honeys

07/27/2024

07/27/2024

Music is in full swing!

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07/27/2024

You can pick up the offical MAMAW Festival drink:
Mamaw's Blackberry Cobbler refresher or Latte at Moonbow Tipple Café & Books 💜