Hickory Hops Festival, 326 Main Avenue NW, Hickory, NC (2026)

07/22/2026

Pop the Cap celebration

04/11/2026

𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐫 & 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲!! 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝐩𝐦 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝟔𝐩𝐦! The weather is going to be perfect and we are looking forward to another great year of celebrating craft beer!! 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐬 & 𝟐𝟎/𝟐𝟎 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝! Advance tickets are no longer available and tickets will be available at the gate! Cash lines move fastest!
𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹❗ 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌-𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒍𝒅𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 10:30𝒂𝒎-12:30𝒑𝒎. 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍❗Cheers!
The festival will be located in the parking lot between Lowes Food City Park and the Elks Lodge in downtown Hickory.

04/10/2026

Online Ticket Sales have ended and tickets will be available at the gate! Cash lines move fastest!! The weather is going to be perfect and we are looking forward to another great year of celebrating craft beer!! Live music from The Tremors & 20/20 Rock Band!
𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹❗ 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌-𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒍𝒅𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 10:30𝒂𝒎-12:30𝒑𝒎. 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍❗Cheers!
The festival will be located in the parking lot between Lowes Food City Park and the Elks Lodge in downtown Hickory.

04/10/2026

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐬: 𝟐𝟎 / 𝟐𝟎 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝

2020 is a rock, pop, blues, and country cover band founded in 2008 in Hickory, NC region. We love what we do and seeing the crowd rockin’ out with us. We have opened for the Beach Boys-original members and many other national acts. We cover The Who, Stones, Beatles, Monkees, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, Aerosmith, Steppenwolf, and more. Join us at Hickory Hops, and don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes along.

04/09/2026

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐬

Since 2003, the Tremors have been serenading music lovers with their raw and unruly backwoods rockabilly rhythms and causing more uptempo commotion than should be allowed by law. A night with the Tremors is a hell-bent chicken run into the primordial goodness of authentic rock’n’roll boogie.

Jimmy Tremor’s strung-out yelp has the nervous jump of Carl Perkins on his way to rehab, his lean guitar attack snarling in sparse intensity. The rhythm section frantically rattles the rafters with a mean streak as Lowbrow Luke’s slap bass, goes toe-to-toe with the rim shots of Stretch Armstrong, resulting in a feverish foundation loaded down with tons of home-spun hillbilly charm.

The bands dedication to the musical roots of rock’n’roll comes through in every whipsaw atomic blast and their original compositions capture the spirit and sounds of 1950s rockabilly so well that they blend seamlessly with the choice first-generation cover material that the band has hand-picked to perform.

Over the years, the Tremors have self-produced five releases (“The Scourge of the South”, “Uranium Rock”, “Invasion of the Saucermen”, “Demon Boogie Fever” and “Old-Fashioned Hillbilly Feud”) on their own label, Brain Drain Records, and have been included on more than a dozen compilations. They’ve played hundreds of shows, some with major talents (such as band favorites Jerry Lee Lewis and Hasil Adkins), infamous characters (mountain dancer Jesco White) and have appeared at top festivals like the Oneida Rockin’ 50s Fest, the Nashville Boogie and the Heavy Rebel Weekender.

Rockabilly, the most primitive form of rock’n’roll, the sound that changed the world. No living soul can resist it’s appeal.

04/09/2026

Tickets are on sale!! Visit www.hickoryhops.com to grab yours! The weather is going to be perfect and we are looking forward to another great year of celebrating craft beer!! Live music from The Tremors & 20/20 Rock Band!
𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹❗ 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌-𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒍𝒅𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 10:30𝒂𝒎-12:30𝒑𝒎. 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍❗Cheers!
The festival will be located in the parking lot between Lowes Food City Park and the Elks Lodge in downtown Hickory.

04/06/2026

Tickets are on sale!! Visit www.hickoryhops.com to grab yours! The weather is going to be perfect and we are looking forward to another great year of celebrating craft beer!! Live music from The Tremors & 20/20 Rock Band!
𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹❗ 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌-𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒍𝒅𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 10:30𝒂𝒎-12:30𝒑𝒎. 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍❗Cheers!
The festival will be located in the parking lot between Lowes Food City Park and the Elks Lodge in downtown Hickory.

04/04/2026

Tickets are on sale!! Visit www.hickoryhops.com to grab yours! We are looking forward to another great year of celebrating craft beer!! Live music from The Tremors & 20/20 Rock Band!

𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹❗ 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌-𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒍𝒅𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 10:30𝒂𝒎-12:30𝒑𝒎. 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍❗Cheers!

The festival will be located in the parking lot between Lowes Food City Park and the Elks Lodge in downtown Hickory.

04/03/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡!! Let's celebrate the King of Beer in proper fashion by raising a toast, or two and three!! "One more excuse to raise a glass to the ancient “Monarch of Malt." Get your tickets at www.hickoryhops.com

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐑𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆

Gambrinus was a gallant king–
Reigned once in Flanders old,
He was the man invented beer
As I’ve been often told.

Of malt and hops he brewed his beer
And made it strong and good,
And some of it he bottled up
And some he kept in wood.

The golden crown upon his head,
The beer jug in his hand,
Beerdrinkers, see before ye here
Your benefactor stand.

Beerlovers, paint him on your shields,
Upon your beerpots paint —
‘Twere well a pope did never worse
Than make Gambrinus Saint.

And now fill every man his pot
Till the foam overflows;
No higher praise asks the good old king
Than froth upon the nose.

Bacchus I’ll honor while I live
And while I live love wine,
But still I’ll hold th’ old Flanders king
And beerjug more divine.

While I have wine night’s darkest shades
To me are full moonlight
But keep my beerpot filled all day
And I’ll sleep sound all night.

So blessings on th’ old Flanders king,
And blessings on his beer,
And curse upon the tax on malt,
That makes good drink so dear.

-by James Henry, M.D., written while walking from Schopfheim to Gersbach in the Black Forest (Baden), October 6, 1854

𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹❗ 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌-𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒍𝒅𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 10:30𝒂𝒎-12:30𝒑𝒎. 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍❗Cheers!

04/02/2026

Tickets are on sale!! Visit www.hickoryhops.com to grab yours! We are looking forward to another great year of celebrating craft beer!! Live music from The Tremors & 20/20 Rock Band!
𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹❗ 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌-𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒍𝒅𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 10:30𝒂𝒎-12:30𝒑𝒎. 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍❗Cheers!
The festival will be located in the parking lot between Lowes Food City Park and the Elks Lodge in downtown Hickory.

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