Kerrville Folk Festival Inc — Hotel in Kerrville

I came here because I had to more than because I wanted to (long story). Anyways, this is not a festival you want to be a part of unless you have a lot money to throw away and are a boring country song loving hippie that also happens to be a staunch liberal.

They charge you as much as they can get away with, and they have a several annoyingly absurd rules, one being that you have to pay a separate fee to leave camp and come back--EVEN AFTER you've already paid to park your vehicle in the camp grounds! And is there anything to make it worth the high price to be here? HA. Nope. You can easily find better music for cheaper elsewhere. You're literally paying up to $800 (depending on how long you stay, whether you volunteer for 4 hour shifts, and if you pay for extra services) just to hear a bunch of senior citizen hippies strum a guitar or ukelele and yodel all day. Not worth it at all unless that's really your thing.

Family friendly? Strictly drug free? Turn-out of 20,000 visitors or more every year?! What a joke! Cussing in public and also in front of kids, and smoking lots of marijuana and drinking lots of booze are so ubiquitous here, it's like they're unspoken rules for this festival! My goodness! As strict as they are about the rules whenever money just so happens to be involved, surely this should be a huge problem?

And no, not even HALF of 20,000 or more people show up here. MAYBE TWO thousand, but SURELY NOT TWENTY thousand! I dont even see how their campgrounds could possibly accommodate that many people. They're cramped, and the roads are only wide enough for two cars to just barely squeeze by each other, and such that pedestrians are almost always in the way. Plus the terrain is AWFUL for camping! It's really rocky and even quite steep in some places.

They have several FLAT spaces that could be used for camping, yet they fence them off and use this ridiculous area that they do instead... how frustrating.

This festival is something I would only do one time just for the new experience. I don't understand how people (which, how lovely, are called "Kerrverts". There are a lot of silly "Kerr-" puns used here) can be willing to do this for decades in a row. They must be awful bored in their daily lives, I guess....

I’ve been attending the Kerrville Folk Festival since I was a little girl and then spent over a decade working on staff with multiple crews.

The returning staff are the heart of the fest and the reason why this sweet little folk festival continues to thrive.

The KFF always inspires me to be a more focused and creative musician/artist, and continues to fill my heart with hope and joy.

There are great people watching opportunities, mind blowing musicianship, and inspiration waiting for you around...

The great folks at the Kerrville Folk Festival opened their facilty to help serve 1st responders and volunteers breakfast, lunch, and diner. Phil was my main contact, and he is a wonderful human and extremely helpful. I was a small wheel in the machine of volunteers and resources donated to help support the recovery effort after the 4th of July flood. Thank you Folk Music Festival for being amazing host's and the generosity of your organization during this time is an...