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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, George Porter Jr, brought his excellent trio to Raleigh to lay down the grooves.  Local all-star space/jazz/funk/fusion group, Casey & the Cosmonauts had a great opening set as well!  Check out Justin Barnett's photo gallery.

Assembled artists for the event were the usual cast of: Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds. Also appearing on the bill were a venerable who's who of Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Tanya Tucker, Bonnie Raitt, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats, Jamey Johnson, Margo Price, and country music superstar Luke Combs.

Lockn' Music Festival's symbol of almost interlocking rings suggests eternity. And, each year's gathering of many of the world's best musicians seems to bring Lockn' closer to joining those rings and creating the everlasting.

At Lockn' 2019 in Arrington, Virginia, music filled the hills and valleys while individual spirits were revived, personal cultures were developed and honed, and healing stood as a weapon of choice in a world split between blessing and crisis.

The Big What? was the 8th annual throwdown, revved up, twist yourself sideways summertime dreamtime festival conceived and executed by North Carolina's hometown heroes BIG Something. The Big Where? was the vast expanse of the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center - 75 acres of shady woods and rolling fields in the central Carolina countryside, roomy enough for multiple stages yet cozy enough to call home. The Big When? was three days of perfect sunny weather in early August with a radar reading royally relieved of rain.