Arts & Entertainment

Huge Reston Music Festival At Lake Anne Saturday

A brand new music festival is kicking off at Lake Anne Plaza featuring "Americana tunes lakeside."

RESTON, VA — Music fans in Reston, get ready for quite the show on Saturday. The Lake Anne Roots Music Festival will take place all day at the Plaza on July 8.

It's an all new music festival featuring "modern Americana tunes lakeside on the plaza," according to a statement.

The event will kick off at noon with the "Catchin Toads" and feature five more acts -- Old Town Traditions, Snakehead Run Jug Band, Split String Soup, Eli Pafumi, and The Woodshedders -- until the festival wraps up at 6 p.m.

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Don't worry, there will be ample food and beverages on hand.

"The free festival will offer a full day of folk, bluegrass, blues, old time, and everything in between, paired with a pop-up beer and wine garden," the statement reads. "Original roots band The Woodshedders will headline the festival bringing their hard to classify Americana shape-shifters sound to Lake Anne. The band has played in several notable festivals including the Red Wing Roots Music Festival, Deep Roots Mountain Revival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Festival, Mountain Stage New Song Fest, and the Kingman Island Bluegrass Festival."

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The Lake Anne Merchants and the Reston Community Center are sponsoring the festival.

For more information, visit the Lake Anne Plaza website.

Image via Lake Anne Plaza

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