Paola Roots Festival
August 28 @ 12:00 pm – August 29 @ 10:30 pm
2026 is 37 Years!! “It’s a Family Tradition!!”
The Roots Festival is a 2-day family friendly event held in the beautiful downtown Paola, KS Park Square. We are pleased to have provided a fun and entertaining event for our community over the years! Last year’s festival highlights include a wide variety of amazing live music featuring National, Regional and Local Artist’s. This year’s music will focus on the amazing local area musicians just as we did 37 years ago! Other great festival attractions include arts & crafts, food vendors, The East Central State BBQ Championship Cook-off and for our younger festival goers, great games and fun rides!
Admission Price: $15 Friday, $20 Saturday, Advance 2 Day Pass $35. Kids 12 and under get in free. Rain or shine!
Friday, August 28
Noon Strum as You Are
5:30 Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders
6:50 PopSkull Rebels
8:10 Nick Schnebelen
9:30 Bywater Call
Saturday, August 29
Noon Friends of Friends
1:00 Mr. Stinky Feet
2:10 Blue Moon Allstars
3:30 Dustin Arbuckle & the Damnations
4:50 Stranded in the City
6:10 Johnny Mullenax
7:30 Albert Cummings
9:00 Taylor Hunnicutt
For more information, visit their official website.

