Youngsters learning Bluegrass at Jams at Graves Mountain Campground

Six Bluegrass Pickers' Jams for 2024

  • February Fever February 2-3 Special room and meal rates for jammers
  • March - Alternative to Cabin Fever February 29 - March 2 - special room and meal rates for jammers. Plus $10 donation to the Graves Mountain Charitable Fund for youth bluegrass support. Donate here and get your $10 Picking Wristband for Feb 29 - Mar 2.
  • Spring - April 19-21
  • Early Summer - During Mountain Community Music Festival, May 30 - June 1
  • Mid Summer - August 16-18
  • Halloween - October  25-27

These are not "Festivals"
- Rather a Community of  Bluegrass Pickers

Vince May, the volunteer jams organizer says, "Please keep in mind that these are not music festivals with paid performers, rather these are informal community "jams" with both dedicated and learning Bluegrass pickers coming together for weekends of music, fun and a beverage or three."

Pickers are free-form in the Campground. As always.
The campground sits at the foothills of the mountains of the Blue Ridge, 11 miles west of Madison, VA, surrounded by 1800 acres of farm with animals, horses, meadow, forest and home style southern cooking at the Lodge.  Overnight lodging in Lodge rooms or cabins, is available.

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Friday- Saturday Nights
The jam weekends get tuned up for picking on the Friday night and continue through Saturday night with a leisurely pack up of RV and car on Sunday.

Bring an Instrument and Join In
Please bring your instrument and sit in, bring a camp chair and listen, cruise from campsite to campsite, listening.

Vince May - Wernick Method Workshops at Graves Mountain Farm
For Beginning Jammers

Learn to Jam with Graves Mountain Jam Coaches.

Teaching Jamming as part of the jam weekends.