BEAR CREEK BLUEGRASS - Bicycle/music social
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Bear Creek Bluegrass - Bicycle/Music Social
August 16, 2025 - 3 pm - 10 pm
Antimi Shelter, Cosmo Park, Columbia MO - Click here for map
The first Bear Creek Bluegrass is in the history books!
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 total 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. After departing on the Bear Creek Trail riders will ride around 2 1/2 miles before reaching their first trailside music stop! After continuing on ride, participants will explore the trail and experience more trailside music until reaching Albert Oakland Park. There riders will regroup at park Shelter #1. Here they will be rewarded with a stage show from the Kay Brothers! After the mid-ride break, it will be time to ride the trail back to Cosmo Park where the main stage will be waiting with the headlining 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.
Trailside music stops on the Bear Creek
Concert at Shelter 1 at Albert Oakland Park
Headlining stage at end of ride at the Antimi Shelter
Smaller 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 (register by August 1st to guarantee a shirt), and live music throughout experience -
18 years and under are FREE (does not include a shirt) - Please check in at the registration table when you arrive and we can get you set to ride.
Looking for just a ticket to the main stage show? Non-rider tickets available for $35 - Purchase at the event starting at 6 pm. Gates open at 6 pm!
Mini Q&A
If you have a question, please drop us a message! 1st time festivals are a learning experience for everyone!
Q: Are lawn chairs allowed at the festival? A: Yes!
Q: Will alcohol or non-alcoholic drinks be available for purchase at the event? A: The event is a BYOB event. Please do not bring glass bottles to the park. Food vendors will have non-alcohol drinks available for purchase.
Q: Will food vendors be at the event? A: Yes, we are locking in the game plan. Please sign up early to help everyone know how much to prepare!
Q: Are dogs allowed at the festival? A: Sorry, please leave your furry friends at home this round.
Q: Can I run/jog the event instead of biking? A: Hell yeah! Join the fun!
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
Clayton Hicklin Band
An eclectic mix of bluegrass, blues, folk, jamgrass and whatever
Ironweed Bluegrass Band
With meandering roots from the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks, Virginia, and all the way to Tubingen, Germany, Ironweed brings you only the finest in bluegrass, vintage country and good ol’ hillbilly twang. From Jimmy Martin to Hazel Dickens, you can expect a poke full of tunes about trains, moonshine, dirt, heartache, pigs and girls named Sophronie.