Tickets are on sale for the Tangled String Music Festival set Saturday, June 23, at Big Spring Park in downtown Huntsville.

Advanced tickets are $23 for the festival, which is set to feature singer-songwriter Amanda Shires, Lilly Hiatt, Joshua Hedley, Bloodkin and Cedric Burnside. Food trucks will be available as well as beer and wine vendors.

The festival is hosted by Tangled String Studios and Yellowhammer Brewing. The groups previously teamed up for Spring Fest events.

“ … We’ve grown up, grown larger and put the focus squarely on finding the best Americana and blues acts from around the South and bringing them to downtown Huntsville,” said a press release about the event. “This new festival would not be possible without the generous support of numerous civic-minded businesses in and around Huntsville.”

About the musicians

Shires is no stranger to Huntsville music fans as she recently played the Von Braun Center with her husband, Jason Isbell. Shires was the Americana Music Association’s emerging artist of 2017 and will headline at the Ryman in August.

Hiatt, who is nominated as emerging artist of the year in 2018, is the daughter of songwriter John Hiatt. She has developed a unique roots sound some call “country grunge.”

Hedley is known as “Mr. Jukebox” for his uncanny ability to play upon request any classic country track, from Johnny Paycheck to Willie Nelson. Hedley’s new album was just released in April on Jack White’s Third Man Records.

Burnside is the grandson of blues legend R.L. Burnside and will open the festival with his two-man Mississippi trance blues act. Burnside’s band was nominated for a Grammy in 2015 and Burnside himself has received numerous awards for his drumming. His band recently signed with Single Lock Records in Muscle Shoals.

Veteran band Bloodkin, a Southern rock group out of Athens, Georgia, has written songs such as “Can’t Get High,” a big for Widespread Panic.