John King

EVENT INFO:
 

• WEATHER: Rain or shine - No refunds will be issued due to inclement weather. Ponchos are allowed, Umbrellas are not. Ponchos are available for purchase.

• PARKING: Parking is available next door to Silverados in the grass lot in front of Grove Stone Baptist Church. Parking $10 (Cash or Card, Purchase parking at the lot.) Managed by Wayne Pressley Enterprises - (828) 545-8103

• UBER/LYFT is also a good choice.

• TAKE THE BUS: Silverados is on the public bus route.

• THE GOOD STUFF: Food trucks and full bar service available onsite. Outside food & beverage is not permitted.

• SEATING: Festival Style General Admission - we have 400 folding chairs, first come first served. Feel free to bring your favorite camping chair to enjoy the show.

• BAGS: Only small personal clutch purses (1.5 in x 8 in or smaller) are allowed and are subject to search at any time. 

• GUEST SAFETY: No Weapons of any kind allowed on the property. Metal Detectors will be at the gates to ensure the safety of all guests.

• REFUNDS: Refunds only issued in the event of a cancellation.

• COVID: All current North Carolina and Local COVID-19 protocols will be followed.

Always Gonna Be You, the full-length debut from chart-topping country songwriter John King, is an autobiographical album whose songs tell a universal story.

"Everyone has fallen in love," says King. "Everyone's had a broken heart. Everyone knows what it feels like to start growing up. I want to create music that speaks to people, so I write songs about the experiences we all share."

Raised in the Appalachian foothills of northern Georgia, John King listened to a wide range of musicians —southern rockers like Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Black Crowes, classic craftsmen like James Taylor and Johnny Cash, and '90s country stars like Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson — and worked construction jobs as a teenager. When he wasn't pouring rocks at the worksite or studying in the classroom, he was usually at home, writing lyrics into his spiral-bound notebook and strumming his newly-written songs on an acoustic guitar. By 16 years old, he was writing multiple songs every week, often auditioning them for his friends around the campfire. 

"A lot of those early songs were horrible," he remembers with a laugh, "but if I've learned anything about writing songs, it's the fact that the more songs you write, the better you get. I kept at it. I wrote a lot. By the time I came to Nashville, I already had a strong grasp on the structure of a good song, and that served me well once I got in the writing room with other songwriters."