Campers lined in rows filled the once open fields of the restored Blue Grass Park in Camp Springs for the Labor Day Weekend Festival near Reidsville, NC. Promoters, Cody and Donna Johnson, have worked miracles to bring the iconic festival grounds back from the wilderness of years laying dormant, to a park that is even better than the original, historically promoted by Carlton Haney, that opened in 1969. It is the site of the first bluegrass festival ever held in North Carolina, and the filming location of the 1971 Bluegrass Country Soul movie.
The weather was picture-perfect with blue skies and temperatures in the lower 80s, a rare break from the extreme heat often felt in this area over the holiday weekend.
The three-day event kicked off Thursday with the Johnsons’ pastor, Jason Simmons, of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, with an opening prayer. Then MC, Cindy Baucom, of Knee-Deep in Bluegrass, sang the national anthem with the audience joining in…