Calico Bluegrass Festival 2025

Strike up some competition by entering in one of our games or contests. There is something for the entire family to enjoy.

Egg Toss

Livery Stage (top of town near school house bridge)

• 9:30 a.m.

All Day Activities

• Bluegrass Crafts: Visitor’s Center.
• Blacksmithing: Across from Gold Panning & restrooms.

Games

Are you Faster than a Marshal?

Across from Main Street Stage 

• 11:00 a.m.
• 2:00 p.m.

Tic Tac Toe

In Front of Park Office 

• 2:00 p.m.

Horseshoe Toss

In Front of Park Office

• 3:30 p.m.

Pin the Tail on the Donkey

Visitor’s Center

• 5:30 p.m.

Join us in some real ol’ gunfightin’ shows reminiscent from the wild, wild West. The Calico Mountain Volunteer Gunfighters will be staging shows throughout the day.

In front of Lil’s Saloon- Area in front of Lil’s Saloon 

• 9:15 a.m.
• 1:15 p.m.
• 4:00 p.m.

See the lightning-fast Pigs race around the track for their reward of Ice Cream and Cookies. Pick the winning color and you win a Blue Ribbon. Additional prizes awarded at each show. You won’t want to miss this cute performance.

Hogs & Dogs- Horseshoe Pit (Across from Calico House Restuarant) Race Times:

• 11:00 a.m.
• 3:00 p.m.
• 5:00 p.m.

The Bon Family Cloggers perform a high-energy, fast-paced variety show This group of seven brothers and sisters, along with their other performing teams, are surefire crowd pleasers that will get everyone clapping their hands and stomping their feet!

Performance Times:

Livery Stage (Top of Town Near School House Bridge). 

• 12:30 p.m.
• 1:30 p.m.
• 2:30 p.m.

Join Odessa Red as she and other perform an original  Victorian screen play: The Language of Flowers, Fans and Flirtation.

Performance Times: 

Town Hall 

• 10:00 a.m.
• 1:00 p.m.
• 4:00 p.m.

Step back in time for Classrooms Sessions to see what school was like in the 1800s in a small mining town. From teaching subjects to schoolhouse do’s and don’ts, the miner’s children gathered in a one-room school house.

Performance Times:

Calico Schoolhouse. Space is limited to 20 people per session.

• 11:00 a.m.
• 11:45 a.m. (magic & mindreading show)
• 1:15 p.m.
• 2:00 p.m. (magic & mindreading show)
• 2:45 p.m.
• 3:30 p.m. (magic & mindreading show)