2024 Event Memories & Accomplishments
Named one of AAA Travel Club Alliance’s “Top Events This Spring and Summer in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia”
Featured in AAA World Magazine (May-July 2024 edition)
Included in Blue Ridge Country Magazine’s Spring 2024 Festivals & Events Guide
Received Kentucky Foundation for Women 2023 Arts Meets Activism Grant & 2024 Radical and Timely Grants
28 Live Musical Acts performed in downtown Pikeville, KY
22 Workshops and Activities enjoyed by kids of all ages in the Pikeville City Park & downtown area
17 Information Booths including UK Ovarian Screening Program & Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
27 Appalachian Artisan Vendors, Crafters and Makers and Food & Beverage Trucks
Over 40 Art Gallery Participants including 20 Junior Artist participants, 30 Art Awards given
$2,000 raised and donated to our 2024 charitable entity, Oasis Farms
Mountain Grrl Artist Rhonda Gilliam’s artwork featured on The Mountain Association’s 2023 Christmas Card
Mountain Grrls were included in Pike County Tourism’s Holler Critters Game Cards Set Number 2
Art Gallery showcase at Mountain Arts Center
Free event for all!
Partnered with Can’d Aid and UPike at Healing Appalachia to help festival goers build and decorate 20 Ukuleles for an after-school music program for kids in East Kentucky
Featured speakers at BRIGHT Leadership Kentucky Conference, Mountain Arts Center, Prestonsburg, KY. “Women Creating Change-A Deep Dive into the Mountain Grrl Experience.”
Many thanks to our photographer friends Larry Epling and Lisa Sullivan for the photos and Jeremy Justice for the video!
2024 Highlight Video
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2024 Highlight Video 〰️
MUSIC!
ART!
WORKSHOPS!
FUN!
Holler Critter Cards
(by Pike County Tourism)
Mountain Grrls helping Mountain Grrls
Mountain Grrls helping Mountain Grrls
We are SO PROUD to announce a $2000.00 charitable donation made by Mountain Grrl Experience to Jessy Workman and Oasis Farms.
Oasis Farms is a blooming social enterprise with a vision and a purpose to help mothers leaving abuse and reduce food insecurity and food deserts across Eastern Kentucky. They offer housing and jobs to their employees, who produce whole, organic food grown in permaculture systems that yield higher nutritional value, increase biodiversity, and keep prices of organic goods affordable.
What People Are Saying
“I truly enjoyed every activity that I was able to participate in this weekend! My personal favorite was the poetry workshop.”
“This was my first but definitely not my last Mountain Grrl Experience!”
“I felt safe in a public space and that is a rare thing in our current world.”
“A yearly summer festival reminder that there are ones in Kentucky that are female run, festivals with female acts that are also worth your time and your money.”
“Thank you so much for giving us an avenue to display our work.”
“I’m really proud of what happens out there every year.”
“Thank you all for creating a space for magic to happen.”
“Thank you all for making it easy for young kids to participate”
“This festival is really great and worth the trip! It’s a free event and the talent is crazy good! We’ve only missed one and don’t plan on missing another!”
“Everything in the gallery was absolutely beautiful and creative.”
“Thank you all for making a great impact in the mountains and providing a platform for women to have a voice and be strong and independent. We appreciate all that your organization does in Eastern Kentucky.”
“What y’all are doing is important. It’s been important to me and it’s impacted lives all around me. Thank you for your hearts. I’m so glad to be a part of the world you’re changing.”
