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Headliners have been announced for this year’s Old-Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival. The Creek Rocks will perform at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17. The Wheelhouse Rousters will perform at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18. Both performances will be held in the Theater at the West Plains Civic Center, located at 110 St. Louis Street, West Plains.
The Creek Rocks are a folk group from the Ozarks led by banjoist Cindy Woolf and guitarist Mark Bilyeu. These longtime musical collaborators worked together on Cindy’s three albums of original songs starting in 2005, they married in 2013, then established The Creek Rocks in 2015. Mark is a founding member of Ozarks family band Big Smith, with whom he toured and recorded for sixteen years. The Creek Rocks’ debut release, “Wolf Hunter,” is a collection of sixteen folk songs from the Ozarks, drawn from the collections of folklorists Max Hunter of Springfield, Missouri, Mark’s hometown; and John Quincy Wolf of Batesville, Arkansas, where Cindy grew up. Woolf is well-known for her singular singing voice and enchanting performances of her original songs, Bilyeu for his distinct guitar sound and clever turn of phrase. Together they perform a mix of Ozark-inspired original songs and truly unique arrangements of traditional Ozark folksongs, from the fun and frivolous anthems of the hills to the hair-raising and harrowing ballads of the dark holler. The Creek Rocks are the proud recipients of the 2024 Artist in Resonance Fellowship from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. They are currently researching song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell and her 1936-37 trip to Missouri and Arkansas. A musical project based upon this research will be released in 2025. Joining Cindy and Mark are band members Dan Redmond on bass and Brian Martin on Drums.
The Wheelhouse Rousters draw not only their moniker and musical style from the river and its industry, but also their ebb and flow of energy. From the river bottoms of West Kentucky to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and as far away as South Korea, the Rousters distill their experiences into songs and sounds firmly planted in American roots music. The band features Eddie Coffey, Logan Oakley, Nathan Lynn, Josh Coffey, and Jake Siener.
The band was formed by members of Bawn in the Mash in early 2013, in hopes of drawing attention to the folk songs of Ohio River Valley and far West Kentucky. In 2014, the band released their first studio album, Steamboatin,’ and were featured artists at the The Belle of Louisville’s Centennial Festival of Riverboats. Recorded at the River Discovery Center in Paducah, the album features modern folk arrangements of traditional Roustabout songs of the Ohio River Valley.
The band’s second studio album, Times of Uncertainty, recorded live at the Historic Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah, with support from S.G. Goodman, Brey McCoy and Chris Black, was released in the summer of 2016 and helped secure the band a residency on the Queen of the Mississippi and the America.
The 2025 Old-Time Music, Ozarks Heritage Festival in downtown West Plains, Mo., will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17 and 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. The annual two-day event in downtown West Plains celebrates Ozarks music and culture.
The Old-Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival is the signature event for West Plains. The festival seeks to celebrate, preserve, pass on and nurture an appreciation of the old-time music and folk life traditions distinctive to the Ozark Highlands. Admission to all festival events is free. 2025 Festival partners include the West Plains Council on the Arts, the City of West Plains, the Ozark Heritage Welcome Center, West Plains Civic Center, Missouri Humanities, and Missouri State University-West Plains. Partial funding for this event is provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
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