Looking back at our Bib & Buckle Festivals...

Although we've never put on a festival this big, with this many music artists, speakers, vendors, and sponsors... we do have some experience putting on festivals here at the farm. From 2009 through 2013, Joey and I held our annual Bib & Buckle Fest, filled with music and fun.
In today's Flog, we look back at a couple of those events and how they have led to where we are today and the festival we're putting on here at the farm next weekend...
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We're half-way through our 30-day FLOG countdown to the festival (sharing a new one daily, as best we can)… as we share our journey preparing our first Homestead Festival on June 3rd and 4th here at our farm. We hope you'll join us.
You can check out the full schedule, lineup, and get your festival passes at www.thehomeste...
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The Homestead Festival, a first-of-its-kind outdoor event, will make its debut on June 3-4, 2022 at Rory Feek's 100-acre historic farm in Columbia, Tennessee. Combining music and meaning, the two-day affair features musical performances, including headliner Kevin Costner & Modern West, as well as masterclass lectures by prominent homesteading community leaders such as Dr. Temple Grandin, Joel Salatin, Justin Rhodes, and many others.
In addition to Costner and his band making a rare stop on their Tales From Yellowstone 2 tour, the musical lineup on the main stage also includes The Isaacs, Jimmy Fortune, and the Brotherly Love project (Bradley Walker, Mike Rogers, Jimmy Fortune, and Ben Isaacs), as well as other bands on a smaller stage.
“We are all, of course, over-the-moon excited to have Mr. Costner and his band coming to join us for the event. But the truth is, we are just as excited to have all the incredible performers and speakers that are taking the time from their busy lives to come to Tennessee and share their knowledge and skills with individuals and families who too will be coming from all over to take part in this special weekend,” says GRAMMY-winning artist and New York Times best-selling author Rory Feek.
“The format for that Friday and Saturday will be homesteading classes and lectures throughout the day and music on the main stage in the evenings as the sun sets,” Rory continues. “Multiple tents here on the grounds will host simultaneous speakers sharing their vast experience of learning to be more self-sustaining and living closer to the land, which I think are very important things that aren’t being passed down to future generations the way they used to be, especially with the struggles we are all facing in the world today. People are interested in learning the skills and information that can help them provide for their families in these challenging times and also add meaning and joy to their lives.”
Homesteading lectures and classes at the festival will vary from growing and preserving your own food, to keeping bees or baby chicks, to home birth and home-schooling. Attendees will also be able to explore and shop at the Homestead Marketplace, featuring over 100 vendors, skilled artisans, local food trucks, and a demonstration area showcasing a variety of homesteading arts and crafts like woodworkers, blacksmiths, gardening experts, flower farmers, artists, and many more.
HISTORY OF THE HOMESTEAD FESTIVAL:
From 2008 to 2013, Rory Feek and his wife Joey held their annual Bib & Buckle Fest, where thousands of fans from all over attended outdoor concerts on the front lawn of their historic farm. This will be the first time Rory has brought outdoor music to his homestead since then.
Since Joey’s passing in 2016, Rory has expanded the farm adding more rotational-grazed pastures for cows and chickens, a one-room schoolhouse with a barnyard and livestock, multiple gardens, a greenhouse, and continued to host concerts on the farm in his 300-seat venue known as Homestead Hall. All of this is in an effort to be more sustainable for his large extended family who live, work, and teach on the farm.
For more information, visit www.thehomeste... and follow the festival on Facebook and Instagram with the links below.
Facebook: / thehomesteadfestival
Instagram: / thehomesteadfestival

[@cyndilu61]

Awesome to remember sweet memories of days gone by loved to hear you and Joey sing you made beautiful music together thanks for sharing Rory God Bless you always😊

[@marylou924]

I am so grateful to see these photos with you and Joey. I miss her face and her sound and this is solid in the love and devotion you have to each other and all you both believe in.

[@joanneganon7157]

Bless your heart, I know the feeling of days gone by, your very Strong 💝🌈🐦. JO JO IN VT 💕😄

[@patwhite8741]

Thanks Rory - always great to see you all!

[@pastorgibson5357]

Thank you for sharing Rory...I LOVE seeing Joey still such an active part of your life and ours too as we get to follow you and your girls

[@nadineweirmurray5334]

Following along all these years through internet from New Brunswick; Canada. Love and prayers always. Gods blessings continue always 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@melanies2389]

Such special beautiful memories. Thank you Rory. God Bless you and The Homestead Festival

[@cindi7955]

You opened your home and your hearts and so much love was spread to so many. Precious memories keep the past alive to colour our todays so beautifully. The Homestead Festival is following on Bib & Buckle Fest blessed ground and may it bring as many smiles and joy. Godspeed.

[@pattyhaley2949]

Love the video of your Bib and Buckle Festival. How sweet to see Joey as beautiful as ever and you look like a handsome young man. I'll never understand why the Lord took Joey from us. The 2 of you together were always about making the world a better place and telling others about giving their life to the Lord. Indy is the perfect combination of the 2 of you. God Bless your Festival in June.

[@elliemartinez9544]

She was a beautiful classy lady 🦋♥️🥰you and her made a Beautiful couple together ♥️🦋🙏🏻 let your memories stay within your soul 🦋

[@sheilawillis490]

Hi Rory and Indy! 😊💜

[@faithburkholder9707]

those best memories you can remember joey and you rory and festivals you plan and lots people have fun and also kids coming their they have fun and god bless you and rory and indie and god bless you and rip you will be missed!!

[@jbfarm7735]

SO much love for this! It did make special memories! Thanks for sharing with us. Sure wish I was closer to you too be able to attend!

[@oldbluzguy]

Really makes me miss the show.. and Joey.

[@sisprater225]

Love it’s going to be beautiful amazing great

[@margaretleehightower3073]

Bless you and God Speed ❤️❤️

[@mikecurtis2585]

Very nice always fun 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@SavewithTerri]

I wanted so much to come to one of your festivals but I'm busy raising grandchildren. I kicked myself now that Joey is gone and I'm going to do my best to come to next year's festival and meet you Rory. Keep those festivals going, I'll be there soon.

[@pamalvestad3848]

Such special memories Thank you for them

[@sharonhott7903]

I'm sorry that I'm going to miss this year's festival but it's on my bucket list and hopefully next year I'll be there. I also need to say how wonderful it is that you keep your wife a live in memorie. Your doing a great job in raising your daughter. I love your heart and I know God is blessing your land and family. I wish all the best with your festival, may God hands fall upon it and blessings be. Good luck.

[@justme6767]

How nice to see Joey ❤️. I miss the Rory and Joey show on tv

[@yadiralumbreras]

🙏

[@jesusislord2457]

I miss her too.☮️💖🙏

[@kimberlyholt2241]

Such good memories never forgotten! 💜

[@h20dad1]

💗

[@gaynorwheeler287]

I am a newcomer to your music, only heard you and Joey with Indiana on a Gaither show. the end of 2121, love your flogs, but I live at the other side of the world in New Zealand.Amazing the way your flogs make people feel they know you, and I wish you all the best for the festival.

[@annagiesbrecht9752]

How I wish I could meet you one day. About 4 years ago I heard about you and the lose of Joey. It was so touching to get to know you both on the videos you shared.

[@keeptrying5962]

I sit here with tears in my eyes (and I never met your Joey). What beautiful memories you made. I always say it, but she was a perfectly gorgeous woman, inside/out. God bless you and your family.

[@lynndolly8290]

In the middle of watching this i heard the news of the shooting in the Texas school...may everyone's hearts and blessings go out to the victims, their families, and everyone involved..ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ...😢😢😭😭😡🤬 IM JUST SPEECHLESS AND MAD AND SAD ALL IN ONE..

[@Rose-Rae]

Me too and I live in south Texas. Just horrifying.

[@lynndolly8290]

@@Rose-Rae horrifying is correct. Being a mom and grandma of a 10 year old i can't imagine sending her to school and never seeing her again. My heart actually hurts for these parents 💔 21 funerals.. I just don't understand. GOD HELP US ALL.. 🙏Peace and love to you and yours💞

[@Rose-Rae]

@@lynndolly8290 yours too Lynn. Enjoy every day and every moment you have with your family. God bless us all.

[@loriannvaccola8264]

My heart will be broken if festival isn’t next year also. I want to go so so bad. Xoxo

[@lindashope2835]

I wish I could be there with you guys. What a blessing you and your family are. Joey was a beautiful talented soul and I have all your CD’s. Indy is such a precious one , you have done a great job raising her. Joey, I’m certain, is very proud of you. Thank you Rory for sharing your home, family, community with us. I know your festival will be a huge success. ♥️

[@captnb8036]

Wish I could take my family to this . I think I need to move closer to Rory.

[@Sarah8561]

Please please put the ‘this life I live’ and the Joey and Rory show episodes back, I’m so sad they’re gone. ❤️

[@jacpug7738]

Love this!!!

[@triciacombs5664]

🥰👍🙏❤️

[@gailhonadle5182]

Would love to go, Columbia, TN is about a 3.5 hr drive from West TN, but health makes travel hard. We have relatives in the area.

[@adunn5173]

Maybe some fine day in heaven, you and Joey will do another one. I hope I’m there to see it. 🙏🏻

[@WillBlindYouWithLight]

Dang Look at all them boots. I am so jealous. And people say I have too many boots. Ha.

[@stephaniegraham9155]

My Heart! Seeing Joey is the sweetest thing ever! Thank you for always sharing these beautiful memories! ❤️☺️

[@shannacraft4099]

🌸 💙💙💙

[@PaulineMiskin]

I would love to be there it so good