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The Ol’ Front Porch Music Festival is grateful to this community for helping us make the 12th Festival one to remember. Thank you to the many, many volunteers who performed jobs big and small.

Thank you to the Festival sponsors and to all who made financial contributions and purchased merchandise and raffle tickets to help us keep the festival free this year and every year. Thanks to Chris Daniels with Daniels Sound for making each band on the Riverfront Stage sound so good. Thanks to the volunteers from all the non-profit organizations that provided food for festival-goers, and to the local restaurants that partnered with them. Thanks to the craft vendors for giving folks the opportunity to do a little shopping while enjoying the music. Thanks to Keith Smith at Town Dock for reminding the community what was happening each day, and keeping the OFPMF website up to date as schedules changed. Thanks to Hiram Lupton for posting his Festival photos to Facebook and to the Pamlico News for providing such great coverage leading up to the festival.

Thanks to the businesses and homeowners all over town for hosting performers on their porches and putting up with people parking on their lawns. Thanks to the deputies from the Sheriff’s office and the security team organized by Chuck Gordon for helping with traffic control. Thanks to the Town of Oriental staff who hung our street banner, spruced up the park, and provided traffic barricades, water and
electricity (and probably did lots of other things we were not even aware of!).

We are grateful to the Oriental Tourism Board for supporting the festival through their media partnerships. Thanks to the Inland Waterway Provision Company and the First Citizens Bank, who sold OFPMF merchandise in advance of festival weekend. Thanks to Oriental United Methodist Church who allowed us to use their labyrinth lot, their parking lot and almost every room in the church for the festival. Thanks to St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Oriental First Baptist Church, the Old Theater and the Oriental Women’s Club for providing their facilities for performances and severe weather locations.

Please share your feedback about the festival here. Each year we learn and make adjustments to make the festival better for everyone.

Mark your calendar for next year’s Festival: October 1 and 2, 2027. If you want to be part of the volunteer team that makes it all happen, we can find a job for you that fits your schedule! Send an email with your contact information to info@olfrontporch.org.