2022 BrightFire Music & Arts Festival

A celebration to honor the life within and around us. Held on Historic Rural Hill's gorgeous 265 acres of nature preserve & park, enjoy a fun evening of music, dance, fire performances, and much more! From the Art Market to the delicious food options, a variety of adventures and activities, and amazing creative people sharing what they Love - a magical evening for all ages!

An imaginative artistic experience, the Sunset fire-lighting ceremony premieres an immersive and inspiring setting of music and movement artistry by Fred Dunlap III, Anne Harris, Payne Dance company, & Queen City Cirque.

Adventures & Activities:

• Mainstage Concerts
• Art Market (Fine Art, Crafts, Silent Auction)
• Food Trucks, Craft Snacks, Beverages
• Pilates (Class @ 4:30)
• Midnight Mulligan Beer Garden
• Whiskey Tasting
• DIY Flower Crown Station - Make your Own!
• Dance!
• Fire Science
• Gardening Demo
• Games, Axe Throwing, & JS Joust
• Camping

The music lineup is a journey mixed with incredible dance & fire performances. We take you from local Punk Rock -> Trip Hop -> Hip Hop Chamber Music -> to Anne Harris (Blues/Roots) and her band from Chicago, and Tuatha Dea (Appalachian Rock) from Asheville.

Performing Artists:

• Anne Harris (Blues/American Roots)
• Tuatha Dea (Appalachian Rock)
• Space Ballet (Trip-Hop Opera)
• Master Kie & Your Neighborhood Orchestra (HipHop Chamber Music)
• Hey Richard (Punk/Rock)
• THE MARK dance company
• Payne Dance
• Movement Migration
• Moving Spirits, Inc
• Queen City Cirque
• The Nouveau Sud Pyros
• Kaustavi Sarkar
• & Others!

Schedule:

• 4:00 - Gates open to Arts Market, Food Trucks, Silent Auction, Activities, Games, Friend Zone, etc.
• 4:30 - Group Pilates
• 6:00 - Mainstage performances
• 8:10 - Sunset Fire-Lighting Ceremony
• 8:30 -10:00: Mainstage performances

No Pets Allowed. Sorry!

Volunteer: (click here)

Silent Auction Donations (Benefits Safe Alliance, Click to Donate)

Book a room at the Springhill Suites by Marriott (Huntersville) or reserve a camping spot above!

BrightFire Music & Arts Festival is a celebration of Life, Hope, and Renewal signifying the start of the summer months.

The festival is an innovative artist-led interpretation of the essence of Beltane. In Celtic tradition, Beltane marked the end of a cold, dark, life-and-death winter and the beginning of renewed life and summer. It is associated with fire, nature, renewed life and growth, joyful celebrations, and an important time in agricultural and pastoral life. Initially, herdsmen in Scotland, Ireland, and Man, would lead their cattle between bonfires to cleanse and prevent disease before entering into the new summer pastures. Ancient communities celebrated this changing season by playing music and dancing near the fires. They would extinguish their home hearths and relight them from the communal Beltane fires as a unifying practice.

A production by Charlotte New Music in partnership with Historic Rural Hill, & THE MARK dance company.

Silent Auction sales benefit Safe Alliance. Click to Donate to the Silent Auction.

Vendors: Art, Craft, & Garden (click here)

Fairy Participation Form (click here)

Inquiries for partnering, sponsorship, and media may be directed to 704-951-5910 or info (at) charlottenewmusic.org.

Sponsors & Partners

Midnight Mulligan Brewing

Digital Color Concepts

Charlotte on the Cheap - find cheap things to do!

Capital Vacations

Osborne Brothers Electric, Inc.

Partners:

Clinging Grace Pilates

That Girl Blooms

Blackberry Ridge Farm

Greenlife Family Farms

NC Forest Service

Springhill Suites by Marriott (Huntersville)

Potions & Pixels

Yeiki Wellness

Phoenix Intuitive Arts & Entertainment

Food Trucks & Beverage Vendors:

Midnight Mulligan Brewing

Caribbean Buzz

Lost Highway Pizza

Darby's Cuisine

I've Never Seen This

Lobster Dog

Rowdy Dogs

Hemp & Tea Company

Third Eye Coffee

Soda South

Darby's Cuisine (wings, crab cakes, & more!)

Maki Taco (hibachi chicken, steak, tacos, etc)

Honey House

Ole Buddy's Oinker Express

Ve-Go

Hip Hop Smoothies & Ice Cream

Sugar Mamma's Sweets

Jacob & Marbrey's Gourmet Cotton Candy & Popcorn

Papa Robb's Paradise Ice

Some of the craftspeople that will be there!

Rwake Create (crystal jewelry & art)

The Enchanted Kitchen - Ye Ole Apothacary

Harrisburg Salon (fairy hair, feathers, makeup)

Carl Stevens (wood & resin sculptures)

My Sister Creates (spin art)

Designs by Sheryl (mixed media art)

Collette Lee Air Plants

Z Balloon Art

Back creek pottery

Night Owl Iron Works (blacksmith & leatherwork)

Art by Amanda [Manic]

Planting Some Peace

Pink Clouds (resin art)

Live Edge of Lake Norman

Roman's Workbench (woodworking)

Iron Axe Society

Wild Thangs (solar garden art)

LTSOOY

Lee's Firewood

Lady Hannah Art

Yeiki Wellness

Nana's Girls Squared (copper & crystal jewelry)

Steve Martin (wood turner)

Kat Scott Studio (mixed media art)

As Above So Below (skulls & botanical)

Monte King's Laser Works (laser wood art)

Zeciety Wellness (jewelry & air plants)

My Piccadily (macrame hanging plants & birdhouses)

Masquerade Design

Pink Daisy Candle & Body Company

Treelight Heirlooms (handmade wooden children's toys)

Wilder & Soul (boho lifestyle apparel)

Moonbeams & Spider Silk (wearables & art)

Toushea Skincare

Silver Moon Arts (jewelry)

Hannah Galactic (resin art)

Sea Surf Shop Creative Designs (custom gifts & apparel)

The Alchemist & the Oracle

Rising Moon Apothecary (Reiki & tarot)

Jamrock Designs (soy candles)

Mann Travel