Gallagher Fest is back for its second year on Saturday, May 17, bringing a full day of live music and community celebration to North Walnut Street in downtown Murfreesboro.
The 2025 festival features two stages of incredible talent, kicking off with a free, family-friendly street festival during the day and wrapping up with a ticketed evening performance by Grammy Award-winning artist Trey Hensley inside The Walnut House.
The outdoor stage on Walnut Street—right in front of Gallagher Guitar Co. and The Walnut House—will showcase a variety of talented regional acts during the Saturday street festival, highlighted by high-energy bluegrass favorites Shadowgrass, headlining the free daytime event.
Shadowgrass originated in 2014 when Clay Russell (banjo), Luke Morris (mandolin) and Kyser George (guitar) were jamming at the Grayson County Fiddler’s Convention in Elk Creek, Virginia. Kyser, Clay and Luke, respectively, were 9, 13, and 14 years old at the time.
Now in their early twenties, their influences and listening habits have changed drastically, but the group has always veered towards the jam-grass direction. Shadowgrass has since welcomed fiddle player and vocalist Madison Morris and bass player Evan Campfield.
Gallagher Fest will also feature a guitar flatpicking contest, with the grand prize of a Gallagher G-45 guitar—an instrument that retails for over $4,000—going to the winner.
Highlights From Gallagher Fest 2024:
The festival winds up with an evening performance inside The Walnut House from guitar phenom Trey Hensley, named the 2023 International Bluegrass Music Association Guitar Player of the Year.
Known for his fiery flatpicking and soulful songwriting, Hensley has played with artists including Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Old Crow Medicine Show, Stone Temple Pilots and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and received a 2025 Grammy Award as a member of The Taj Mahal Sextet.
Find tickets for the evening show and more information on the 2025 Gallagher Fest at gallagherfest.com.
