2026 Kennedy Creek Old-Time Music Festival

Corn Tippers are biodiesel for your eardrums! We are Max Godfrey (fiddle/banjo), Maggie Hall (guitar), Evan Kinney (banjo, fiddle), and Tre Watts (bass), and we play old-time music. Add fructose to it and drizzle it on your pancakes, throw it in the hopper and grind it into grits, mash it into tortillas, slather butter on it straight from the cob, and by the moon’s shine, go ahead and tip it on back!

The Corn Tippers’ roots go all the way back to 2014, when Max and Maggie collided with Tré Watts while busking at Freedom Farmers Market. They’ve been gigging for the past decade in various shapes and forms, often with Evan Kinney, and have finally made it official with their debut album! Follow them @corntippers on Instagram and Facebook.

The Four O’ Clocks are Max Godfrey, Maggie Hall, Jenna Mobley, and Jeremy Aggers, a traditional old-time string band from Atlanta! They are creatures of the golden hour, summoning weary, solitary travelers together to dance and howl harmoniously at the rising moon. Check out their album at fouroclocksband.bandcamp.com, and follow them @fouroclocksband on Instagram and Facebook.

In the year since recording their debut album, they’ve played at Eddie’s Attic, Fiddler’s Green, Flicker in Athens, The John C. Campbell Folk School, and contra dances in Birmingham, Athens, Atlanta, and Brasstown, NC.

After writing, recording, and touring his own music for a decade, guitarist, songwriter, and North Carolina native Jeremy Aggers got into a fist-fight with music and lost so bad that he started playing old-time banjo. It truly changed his life for the better, believe it or not. He plays any chance he gets, and has been lucky to learn from and accompany some of the finest fiddlers in Georgia.

Max Godfrey and Maggie Hall hit it off at the Atlanta Contra Dance in 2012 and began playing old-time tunes at farmers markets around Atlanta, often with Miss Moonshine on banjo! Since then, they’ve been fixtures of the Atlanta music scene, known for their wild, energetic style and tight vocal harmonies. Max teaches music at Guitar Shed and The Frank Hamilton School, where he helps teach the kids’ program with Jenna Mobley and TJ Odom. He also organizes a semi-monthly square dance in Cabbagetown and twice-monthly old-time jams at The Lost Druid. When she’s not playing guitar, Maggie can be found traipsing through the forest, gathering inspiration and materials for her artwork and handicrafts. Her current focus is watercolor painting, broom making, basket weaving, and needle felting.

Evan Kinney grew up in a family of old-time music in Kennesaw, Georgia. He learned from his father at an early age and has continued to hone his skills by studying the eccentric playing of 20’s recording artists such as Earl Johnson, Seven Foot Dilly and His Dill Pickles, Dupree’s Rome Boys, and of course the Skillet Lickers. As a multi-instrumentalist, Evan has performed with bands such as The Griddle Lickers, Corn Tippers, Georgia Crackers, and Dixieland Squirrel Skinners, and he teaches traditional music regularly at The Frank Hamilton Folk School in Decatur Georgia as well as old time music camps including The Alabama Folk School, Mars Hill’s Blue Ridge Old Time Music Week, and Festival of American Fiddle Tunes.

Jenna Shea Mobley is a touring and studio musician based out of Atlanta. She plays mostly fiddle and upright bass these days, though her first instruments were banjo, guitar, and piano. She has been a teacher of each of these instruments to students of all ages over the past 15 years in individual lessons, group classes, and workshops.

While she was trained classically from middle school through college, she now plays more old-time and folk styles and teaches primarily ear training, improvisation, and folk/popular repertoire. Her degree in Early Childhood Education and her career as an elementary school teacher strongly influence her pedagogical approach and her deep love for building a community of learners and creatives. Her goal is for her students to be life-long musicians with the skills to learn songs they love and connect with others through music.