The Reevestock Music Festival is a two-day event that opens in a small theater Friday evening and moves to a park known as "Elkin's Hidden Amphitheater" for afternoon and evening shows on Saturday. Additional shows are scheduled for later Friday night at a local venue, such as a brewery just up the street from the theater when we attended in 2018.
In 2024, organizers moved the festival from August to October and said it would be the last one at Elkin's Hidden Amphitheater.
Joe Firstman of the Cordovas at Reevestock 2018.
Proceeds from Reevestock go to the the Reevestock Scholarship Fund, which helps Elkin, East Wilkes, and Starmount high school seniors continue their education at any two- or four-year program or technical school.
The park is in a residential neighborhood and could, indeed, be easily overlooked. Parking at the site was prohibited as of 2018, and free shuttles ran from parking at a church and a retirement home a few blocks away. The park features a gazebo that serves as a stage and a steep, tiered amphitheater that surrounds it. There are chairs and loungers set out along walls and on multiple patios among the multiple levels of the amphitheater.
The festival was general admission, but at least this patio below was reserved for guests of a sponsoring company.
This vantage point from under a tent early in the afternoon shows the multiple levels of the amphitheater.
The picnic shelter below is just to the right of the stage (note the stage camera bottom-left in the photo). This shelter, the tent in the photo above and a second picnic shelter offer refuge when the inevitable summer-evening rains come. The park also has two flush-toilet restrooms, as well as port-a-potties brought in for the festival.
On the other hand, there's standing room down front and, as with most small festivals, you can get up as close as you want, as we did for this shot of Dane Page ...
The road people are standing on in the photo above led to food and drink vendors, including booths for a Yadkin Valley winery and breweries, sponsor Cheerwine, and about five local restaurants or food trucks. Another walkway leads to and around a pond behind the gazebo, or to another patio.
We saw one inflatable for children and the park's swing set. There were many children present for the Saturday portion of the festival.
Josh Daniel of the Josh Daniel/Mark Schimick Project entertained outside the Reeves Friday afternoon prior to the Todd Snider show.
The theater lobby has a bar, a merchandise table and a few more tables of seating to the right that are not pictured.
A theater box and its unique stucco wall.
Todd Snider was joined by Rorey Carroll, who opened the show, to sing John Prine's "Angel from Montgomery."
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