Event Details

GATES 5:00pm

SUPPORT 6:00pm

ELI YOUNG BAND 7:30pm

Eli Young Band is an American country music band composed of members who met while students at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas: Mike Eli (lead vocals, guitar), James Young (guitar), Jon Jones (bass guitar), and Chris Thompson (drums). They released their self-titled debut album in 2002, followed by the Carnival records release Level in 2005. Their third album, Jet Black & Jealous, was released in 2008 by Universal South Records. A second major-label album, Life at Best, was released in 2011 by Republic Nashville, with 10,000 Towns following in early 2014. The band has charted eight times on the Billboard country charts, with four of their singles having reached No. 1: "Crazy Girl", which was the top country song of 2011 according to Billboard Year-End, along with "Even If It Breaks Your Heart", "Drunk Last Night", and "Love Ain't".

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Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. A protege of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, The Pretenders, and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts and is now regarded as a classic of the Americana genre. Most recently, Earle’s 1988 hit Copperhead Road was made an official state song of Tennessee in 2023. 
Subsequent releases like The Revolution Starts...Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007), and TOWNES (2009) received consecutive GRAMMY® Awards. Jerry Jeff, released in 2022, consisted of Earle’s versions of songs written by Jerry Jeff Walker, one of his mentors. 
Earle has published both a novel I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011) and Dog House Roses, a collection of short stories (Houghton Mifflin 2003).Earle produced albums for other artists such as Joan Baez (Day After Tomorrow) and Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels on A Gravel Road) 
As an actor, Earle has appeared in several films and had recurring roles in the HBO series The Wire and Tremé. In 2009, Earle appeared in the off-Broadway play Samara, for which he also wrote a score that The New York Times described as “exquisitely subliminal.” Earle wrote music for and appeared in Coal Country, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Earle is the host of the weekly show Hard Core Troubadour on Sirius Radio’s Outlaw Country channel. 
In 2020, Earle was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. And in 2023, Steve was honored by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. Steve’s latest album, “Alone Again (Live)”, released on July 12th, 2024. Most recently, Steve was honored with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry and was officially inducted on September 17th, 2025.
HOST A VIP EXPERIENCE IN A SKYBOX! Each private SkyBox (96 sqf) is private, temperature-controlled, and opens onto an enclosed deck (96 sqf) with a panoramic view of Smith Mountain Lake and the surrounding mountains. Guests enjoy a direct line of sight to the stage and access to upgraded bathrooms. FIND OUT MORE
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2-NIGHT RUN!

VERY SPECIAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED

GATES 5:00pm

SHOW 6:15pm
Molly Tuttle is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and virtuosic guitarist whose innovative blend of bluegrass, Americana, pop, and rock has made her one of the most dynamic artists in modern roots music. In 2025, she released her boldest statement yet, the critically acclaimed So Long Little Miss Sunshine, nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards—Best Americana Album and Best Americana Performance for the lead single “That’s Gonna Leave A Mark.” Recorded in Nashville with producer Mike Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson), the album marks Tuttle’s fifth full-length release and her most ambitious reinvention to date: a vibrant, deeply personal body of work rooted in self-acceptance and transformation. 
A highly decorated artist, Tuttle has been nominated for 5 GRAMMY Awards (including in the Best New Artist category) and earned back-to-back GRAMMY wins for Best Bluegrass Album with her band Golden Highway - Crooked Tree (2022) and City of Gold (2023) - becoming the first artist in the category’s history to do so. She is also the first woman to receive the IBMA Guitar Player of the Year award, alongside multiple additional IBMA and Americana Music Awards. 

HOST A VIP EXPERIENCE IN A SKYBOX! Each private SkyBox (96 sqf) is private, temperature-controlled, and opens onto an enclosed deck (96 sqf) with a panoramic view of Smith Mountain Lake and the surrounding mountains. Guests enjoy a direct line of sight to the stage and access to upgraded bathrooms. FIND OUT MORE
For more information about live events at The Coves Ampitheater, please visit our FAQs page

2-NIGHT RUN!

VERY SPECIAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED

GATES 5:00pm

SHOW 6:15pm
Molly Tuttle is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and virtuosic guitarist whose innovative blend of bluegrass, Americana, pop, and rock has made her one of the most dynamic artists in modern roots music. In 2025, she released her boldest statement yet, the critically acclaimed So Long Little Miss Sunshine, nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards—Best Americana Album and Best Americana Performance for the lead single “That’s Gonna Leave A Mark.” Recorded in Nashville with producer Mike Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson), the album marks Tuttle’s fifth full-length release and her most ambitious reinvention to date: a vibrant, deeply personal body of work rooted in self-acceptance and transformation. 
A highly decorated artist, Tuttle has been nominated for 5 GRAMMY Awards (including in the Best New Artist category) and earned back-to-back GRAMMY wins for Best Bluegrass Album with her band Golden Highway - Crooked Tree (2022) and City of Gold (2023) - becoming the first artist in the category’s history to do so. She is also the first woman to receive the IBMA Guitar Player of the Year award, alongside multiple additional IBMA and Americana Music Awards. 

HOST A VIP EXPERIENCE IN A SKYBOX! Each private SkyBox (96 sqf) is private, temperature-controlled, and opens onto an enclosed deck (96 sqf) with a panoramic view of Smith Mountain Lake and the surrounding mountains. Guests enjoy a direct line of sight to the stage and access to upgraded bathrooms. FIND OUT MORE
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Join us as we celebrate 20 years of hope, impact, and service in Franklin County!

July 18 2026 | 5PM - 8PM
Faith Fellowship's Venture Building
100 Wirtz Rd. Wirtz, VA

Be part of a special evening honoring Stepping Stone Mission’s journey over the past two decades. Enjoy a dinner of Prime Rib or Seasoned Chicken, Seasonal Roasted Vegetables, Artisan Macaroni & Cheese, Salad and Dessert.

Get your dinner tickets today and help us continue this important work for years to come. Tickets can be purchased online at https://square.link/u/Jph9rylO

Together, we can keep making a difference.

Tickets go on sale mid-May through the Harvester site at https://harvester-music.com/

Join us August 2 at the Harvester Performance Center for an afternoon where music, community, and compassion come together in support of three vital local nonprofits: Helping Hands, The Warming Shelter, and Stepping Stone Mission.  Featuring the SML Boomer Band, this special charity event invites you to connect with neighbors, community leaders, and nonprofit partners—all while supporting meaningful causes that make a real difference.

Event Details

GATES 5:00pm

CRAWFORD & POWER 6:15pm

THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND 7:45pm
When you wake up and want to put a smile on your face, you think of the songs that always manage to reach down and touch your soul the moment you hear the first note. The Marshall Tucker Band is one such group that continues to have a profound level of impact on successive generations of listeners who’ve been "Searchin’ for a Rainbow" and found it perfectly represented by this tried-and-true Southern institution over the decades. “I’ve been in tune with how music can make you feel, right from when I was first in the crib,” explains lead vocalist and bandleader Doug Gray, who’s been fronting the MTB since the very beginning. “I was born with that. And I realized it early on, back when I was a little kid and my mom and dad encouraged me to get up there and sing whatever song came on the jukebox. It got to the point where people were listening to me more than what was on the jukebox! There’s a certain gift I found I could share, whether I was in front of five people or 20,000 people. I was blessed with that ability and I’m thankful I can share with others."
The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they’ve been in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe ever since. Plus, the band’s mighty music catalog, consisting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over. A typically rich MTB setlist is bubbling over with a healthy dose of hits like the heartfelt singalong “Heard It in a Love Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can’t You See” (the signature tune ofMTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell), the testifying “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of “Long Hard Ride,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin,’” to name but a few

Event Details

GATES 5:00pm

SUPPORT 6:00pm

ELI YOUNG BAND 7:30pm

Eli Young Band is an American country music band composed of members who met while students at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas: Mike Eli (lead vocals, guitar), James Young (guitar), Jon Jones (bass guitar), and Chris Thompson (drums). They released their self-titled debut album in 2002, followed by the Carnival records release Level in 2005. Their third album, Jet Black & Jealous, was released in 2008 by Universal South Records. A second major-label album, Life at Best, was released in 2011 by Republic Nashville, with 10,000 Towns following in early 2014. The band has charted eight times on the Billboard country charts, with four of their singles having reached No. 1: "Crazy Girl", which was the top country song of 2011 according to Billboard Year-End, along with "Even If It Breaks Your Heart", "Drunk Last Night", and "Love Ain't".

HOST A VIP EXPERIENCE IN A SKYBOX! Each private SkyBox (96 sqf) is private, temperature-controlled, and opens onto an enclosed deck (96 sqf) with a panoramic view of Smith Mountain Lake and the surrounding mountains. Guests enjoy a direct line of sight to the stage and access to upgraded bathrooms. FIND OUT MORE

For more information about live events at The Coves Ampitheater, please visit our FAQs page