BEAR CREEK BLUEGRASS - Bicycle/music social
Bear Creek Bluegrass - Bicycle/Music Social
August 16, 2025 - 2 pm - 10 pm
Cosmo Park, Columbia MO
Join a fun loving group of social bike riders on a relaxed tour of the Bear Creek Trail! Departing from Columbia’s beautiful Cosmo Park on the the Bear Creek Trail. The ride travels 11 miles on a crushed limestone and car-free trail that ends at Albert Oakland Park. Riders will meet up at the Antimi Shelter near the skate park at Cosmo Park to pre-ride buskers and entertainments. After departing on the Bear Creek Trail riders will ride less than 2 miles before reaching their first stage stop near the trailhead off of Creasy Spring Rd. After continuing on ride, participants will explore the trail until reaching Albert Oakland Park. There riders will regroup at park shelter #1. Here they will be rewarded with more live music. After the mid-ride break, it will be time to ride the trail back to Cosmo Park. Along the route out and back buskers and trailside performances await to entertain riders! Upon returning to the finishing area, riders will be welcomed to the main stage musical acts and entertainment.
Featuring headlining acts: Split Lip Rayfield, Kay Brothers, Front Porch (and more TBA)
At a glance:
11 mile social/bike ride on the Bear Creek Trail. More about the social and less about the miles! View route map
Starts/finishes at Antimi Shelter at Cosmo Park.
Stage stop at the Bear Creek Trailhead near Creasy Spring Road
Concert at Shelter 1 at Albert Oakland Park
Busker musician stops along the route
Headlining stage at end of ride at the Antimi Shelter
Intimidate riding group (maximum of 700 riders)
Scenic crushed limestone trail and car free route.
Ride and socialize at your own pace.
BYOB event
$65 includes event T-shirt and koozie, and live music throughout experience -
Looking for just a ticket to the main stage show? Non-rider tickets available for $35 - Reserve on-line or purchase at the event starting at 7 pm.
Split Lip Rayfield
Split Lip Rayfield is an American vocal and acoustic instrumental group from Wichita, Kansas, United States. Though they are sometimes classified as a bluegrass, alternative country, or cowpunk band, their music draws on a wide array of influences.
THE KAY BROTHERS
Old Time Missouri Stompgrass
Missouri brothers form a band saluting the music traditional to their homeland: The Ozarks… where Old-Time Fiddle music received a quick flash fry of foot stompin’ Country Blues as it made its way across the Mississippi River. The songs are a collection of stories, often ancient in verse but timeless in meaning, and delivered with sunny reverence for this forgotten music bred to uplift from the tangle of struggles in a bygone era. It’s music that draws you out, rather than draw you in.
In 2018, the band released their Self-Titled Debut Album and a companion video for their song, “Find Your Love,” recorded in an abandoned auto garage somewhere in Callaway County. Joined by sisters Emma & Olivia Burney, the band boasts sibling harmonies, upright bass, guitar, tenor banjo, fiddle, cello, ukulele, harmonica, washboard, congas, shakers, and an array of foot percussion. The mission: to preserve the rural music of our forefathers and mothers that once filled the wooden barns dotting the countryside on Saturday night and the small family churches on Sunday morning. That party is still going on.... it’s in your blood.
Front Porch
Contemporary bluegrass and old time mayhem from North West Arkansas.
Learn more at: www.front-porch-music.com
