BEAR CREEK BLUEGRASS - Bicycle/music social
Bear Creek Bluegrass - Bicycle/Music Social
August 16, 2025 - 3 pm - 10 pm
Cosmo Park, Columbia MO
Come for the bicycle music festival or just get a ticket for the main stage music!
Join a fun loving group of social bike riders on a relaxed tour of the Bear Creek Trail! Departing from Columbia’s beautiful Cosmo Park on the the Bear Creek Trail. The ride travels 11 miles total on a crushed limestone and car-free trail that ends at Albert Oakland Park. Riders will meet up at the Antimi Shelter near the skate park at Cosmo Park. After departing on the Bear Creek Trail riders will ride around 2 1/2 miles before reaching their first trailside music stop! After continuing on ride, participants will explore the trail and experience more trailside music until reaching Albert Oakland Park. There riders will regroup at park Shelter #1. Here they will be rewarded with a stage show from the Kay Brothers! After the mid-ride break, it will be time to ride the trail back to Cosmo Park where the main stage will be waiting with the headlining entertainment.
Featuring headlining acts: Split Lip Rayfield, Kay Brothers, Front Porch (and more TBA)
At a glance:
11 mile social/bike ride on the Bear Creek Trail. More about the social and less about the miles! View route map
Starts/finishes at Antimi Shelter at Cosmo Park.
Trailside music stops on the Bear Creek
Concert at Shelter 1 at Albert Oakland Park
Headlining stage at end of ride at the Antimi Shelter
Smaller riding group (maximum of 700 riders)
Scenic crushed limestone trail and car free route.
Ride and socialize at your own pace.
BYOB event
$65 includes event T-shirt (register by August 1st to guaranteed a shirt) and koozie, and live music throughout experience -
18 years and under are FREE (does not include a shirt) - Please check in at the registration table when you arrive and we can get you set to ride. Contact us before August 1st if you would like to order a shirt for a rider 18 and under.
Looking for just a ticket to the main stage show? Non-rider tickets available for $35 - Reserve on-line or purchase at the event starting at 7 pm.
Rough Schedule of Events (subject to change):
3 pm til 4 pm - Ride Check-In & Registration at Cosmo Park Antimi Shelter
3:15 pm til 4:45 pm - Bottom of the hill social. Total distance: ½ mile
3:30 pm til 5 pm - Trailside live music with the Clayton Hickland band . Total distance: 2.5 miles
4:30 pm til 5:30 pm - Under the Providence Bridge Dance Party.Total distance: 3 miles
Anytime - Casey’s Gas Station - Food & drink options for riders. Total distance: 3.5 miles
4:30 pm til 5:30 pm - Trailside live music by Ironweed Bluegrass Band. Total distance: 4.25 miles
5 pm til 6:30 pm - Kay Brothers and activities (TBA) at Shelter 1 in Albert Oakland Park. Total distance: 5.3 miles
7 pm til 8:30pm - Front Porch - Cosmo Park main stage opening band. Total distance: 10.6 miles
9pm til 10:15pm - Split Lip Rayfield - Cosmo Park main stage headlining band
Not joining us for the bicycle/festival (or maybe need a shirt for a youth rider) and want to order a shirt?
Click here to order
Check out the Facebook Event - Click here to let us know that you are coming and please invite your best fun loving friends!
Split Lip Rayfield
Split Lip Rayfield is an American vocal and acoustic instrumental group from Wichita, Kansas, United States. Though they are sometimes classified as a bluegrass, alternative country, or cowpunk band, their music draws on a wide array of influences.
THE KAY BROTHERS
Old Time Missouri Stompgrass
Missouri brothers form a band saluting the music traditional to their homeland: The Ozarks… where Old-Time Fiddle music received a quick flash fry of foot stompin’ Country Blues as it made its way across the Mississippi River. The songs are a collection of stories, often ancient in verse but timeless in meaning, and delivered with sunny reverence for this forgotten music bred to uplift from the tangle of struggles in a bygone era. It’s music that draws you out, rather than draw you in.
In 2018, the band released their Self-Titled Debut Album and a companion video for their song, “Find Your Love,” recorded in an abandoned auto garage somewhere in Callaway County. Joined by sisters Emma & Olivia Burney, the band boasts sibling harmonies, upright bass, guitar, tenor banjo, fiddle, cello, ukulele, harmonica, washboard, congas, shakers, and an array of foot percussion. The mission: to preserve the rural music of our forefathers and mothers that once filled the wooden barns dotting the countryside on Saturday night and the small family churches on Sunday morning. That party is still going on.... it’s in your blood.
Front Porch
Contemporary bluegrass and old time mayhem from North West Arkansas.
Learn more at: www.front-porch-music.com
Clayton Hicklin Band
An eclectic mix of bluegrass, blues, folk, jamgrass and whatever
Ironweed Bluegrass Band
With meandering roots from the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks, Virginia, and all the way to Tubingen, Germany, Ironweed brings you only the finest in bluegrass, vintage country and good ol’ hillbilly twang. From Jimmy Martin to Hazel Dickens, you can expect a poke full of tunes about trains, moonshine, dirt, heartache, pigs and girls named Sophronie.
