Tyler Childers and Chris Stapleton headline the sixth annual Healing Appalachia. The goals of Healing Appalachia include “spreading addiction and recovery awareness, fostering empathy, and inspiring life-saving action throughout communities worldwide.”
Healing Appalachia, which bills itself as “the largest recovery-based music festival,” moves to eastern Kentucky this September after five years in West Virginia. The festival will take place Friday and Saturday, September 19-20, with the location described as “a mountaintop near the Boyd County Fairgrounds in Ashland, Kentucky.”
Both Childers and Stapleton are native Kentuckyans; Dave Lavender, board president for Hope in the Hills and the president of Healing Appalachia, said in a statement: “In our first year of moving to Eastern Kentucky, we are beyond grateful and honored to have two of the greatest singer/songwriters to hail from the perpetual talent wellspring that is the Country Music Highway. Chris Stapleton and Tyler Childers have each dug a deep and distinct furrow through the heart of the music industry. They also embody the heart and soul of what it means to be from here, from Appalachia. That Bill Withers ‘Lean on Me’ coal-camp spirit drives them to always be calling out to help neighbors and folks in need both here and the world over.”
Tickets for Healing Appalachia can be purchased here.
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