CUP FEST – Pre-Cup Street Festival featuring Mother’s Finest

Name: CUP FEST – Pre-Cup Street Festival featuring Mother’s Finest
Start: 2026-03-27T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-27T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Downtown Camden Cultural District

March 27 @ 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Get ready to party with the legendary Mother’s Finest the day before the Carolina Cup! The first ever CUP FEST will take over Downtown Camden and is FREE to attend.

Experience live music all day long on two stages! Local and regional acts will start the party on the Greener Pastures Brewing South Stage, including Walker Gainey, The Green Swamp Collective, and Taylor Richardson and her band. Mother’s Finest takes to the mainstage at the intersection of Broad and Rutledge Streets at 6:00 pm. Free parking will be available at Camden City Arena, 420 Broad Street, and free shuttle service will run from 12:00 pm until 9:00 pm, provided by the King Haigler Express.

CUP FEST activities will also include a classic car cruise-in hosted by River Rat Classics, a Kid Zone sponsored by The Haigler Hotel, arcade games and mini golf for kids of all ages, specials from downtown merchants, street vendors and food trucks. In case of inclement weather, the street festival will be canceled and the rain location for the Mother’s Finest concert will be Camden City Arena, 420 Broad Street. Seating will be limited and occupancy will be limited to the first 1,500 people.

Mothers Finest has always been a band impossible to force into artificially-labelled boxes. One of the most energetic and charismatic groups to cut a swath through the music industry, Mothers Finest defies boundaries and creates its own genre. Led by superbly talented vocalists Glenn “Doc” Murdock and Joyce “Baby Jean” Kennedy, and anchored by the tight, crunchy rhythm section of Gary “Moses Mo” Moore and John “Red Devil” Hayes on guitars, Jerry “Wyzard” Seay on bass, and Dion Derek on drums, Mothers Finest drives through the pocket like a Mack truck and peels the paint off the walls. Now past their fiftieth year of crushing the groove and bangin’ their fans’ heads upside, Mothers Finest hasn’t lost any of their signature energy and passion. These veterans of the music industry – and Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductees – continue to tour, delighting long-time fans and drawing many new ones into the fold. Come join us for this epic event!