Summer Solstice Fest 2025
Venue: Downtown Blacksburg, Blacksburg
Organizations: Downtown Blacksburg Inc., First to Mars, Jimothy, PanJammers, Solacoustix, The Red Ferns, Virginia Hollow
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Sports, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free
Description:
Downtown Blacksburg, Inc. presents the 17th Annual Summer Solstice Fest on Saturday, June 21, 2025 in downtown Blacksburg, VA.

Entertainment Schedule:
• 1:00 PM: PanJammers
• 2:00 PM: Montgomery County Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM)
• 3:00 PM: Virginia Hollow
• 4:00 PM: Summer Musical Enterprise
• 5:00 PM: Jimothy
• 6:45 PM: The Red Ferns
• 8:15 PM: Solacoustix
• 9:45 PM: First To Mars

Family Fun Zone Entertainment Schedule:
• 11:00 AM: Stilt Walking
• 1:00 PM: Magic Show
• 3:00 PM: Magic Show
• 4:00 PM: Stilt Walking

Enjoy live music, food vendors & food trucks, arts & crafts vendors, performances, Downtown Sundown 5K, Family Fun Zone from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Cabo Fish Taco Beach, yoga, kettle corn, cotton candy, lemonade, beer & summer cocktails and more! From 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM, Summer Solstice Fest will be held on Main Street and Lee Street with a fantastic line up of family fun and entertainment for all. The Family Fun Zone includes live entertainment with magic show performances and stilt walking along with mini golf, basketball, bouncy house and family friendly vendors & organizations.

PanJammers is an award-winning steel drum orchestra based in Blacksburg, Virginia. The group is comprised of a variety of players, ranging from teens to adults.

Links:

• http://blacksburgsteelpans.blogspot.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/panjammers
• https://www.twitter.com/panjammers

Virginia Hollow is a mixture of Americana, bluegrass, country, indie and rock. A singer-songwriter band that performs songs written by lead singer Carrie Hinkley, along with an occasional handpicked cover or two.

Virginia Hollow is a band and a sound born from the hills, valleys and mountains of Appalachia. Their performances and music take you on a journey fraught with raw emotions and stories of love, trust, betrayal and longing. When all is said and done, the haunting melodies of Carrie Hinkley's soulful voice are hard to shake off and instead keep returning and replaying in one's mind, like an untamed mantra of beauty and tragedy. This is a band whose time has come and needs to be reckoned with.

Links:

• https://virginiahollow.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/virginiahollowband/

Jimothy is a multi-genre band based around the solo work of singer and guitarist Jim Bohon based in the New River Valley region of Virginia. Jim is a multi-instrumentalist, and performed all instrumentation and vocals on the band's debut album "Never In A Million Years," before fleshing out a full band when the album proved to be popular among local audiences. Jimothy love what they do, and it shines through in their performance, no matter the event or venue.

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/JimothyBand
• https://www.reverbnation.com/jimothy4
• https://www.instagram.com/jimothyband/

The Red Ferns are a five-piece Blacksburg, VA based rock band. They enjoy covering songs by The Eagles, The Allman Brothers, and The Grateful Dead. The Ferns have mainly been a cover band, but they are working on developing their own sound and their debut album.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/theredfernsband/

Solacoustix is a music phenomenon, specializing and performing anything from Blues and R&B to rock based in Roanoke, VA. Solacoustix has played Floydfest and around the state to several college and university crowds.

Jo Jo leads on Bass while Stuart mixes and mashes all types of current and classic music and adds his own soulful voice and makes it his own. Chris is a beast on drums and Cameron rocks the keys which makes this band the one to book for any event. No matter if you need a solo acoustic blues artist or a full band, Solacoustix can meet your needs.

Links:

• https://sites.google.com/view/solacoustix/home
• https://www.facebook.com/jojo.stockton.3
• https://www.instagram.com/jojo.stockton.3/

First to Mars is a band featuring hits and deep cuts across classic, southern, alt & modern rock from the 1970s-2000s.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095092241499

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Volunteers are needed for the festival. To sign-up to volunteer, visit: https://www.eventeny.com/events/volunteer/application/?id=10570.

Summer Solstice Fest is a rain or shine event.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/yN7FkbP1/image.png or https://i.postimg.cc/G3xv04KP/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://downtownblacksburg.com/index.php/events/summer-solstice-fest or https://www.eventeny.com/events/2025-summer-solstice-fest-18267/ or https://www.facebook.com/DowntownBlacksburg or https://www.facebook.com/events/597619799814087 or https://www.instagram.com/downtownblacksburg/.