Gates 6:30 & Music 7:00 PM Kick off Independence Day weekend — and America’s 250th — the way it was meant to be celebrated: out on the farm, mead in hand, boots in the grass, and a powerhouse voice carrying across the flowers as the sun goes down. Shenandoah Valley songwriter Rebecca Porter brings her honey-smooth voice and honky-tonk heart to Thistlerock for one special night. A Color Me Country Class of 2024 artist and NPR Mountain Stage performer, Rebecca writes the kind of real, rootsy, classic-country songs that’ll have you swaying one minute and two-stepping the next. Think Dolly-soaked storytelling, swooning guitars, and a whole lot of Virginia soul. Pour a glass, find your dancing partner, and toast 250 years under a sky full of stars. Tickets $25 in advance · $30 at the door · Kids under 12 are free to join Thistlerock · Keswick, VA Rebecca Porter embodies the soulful, lonesome sound of the Shenandoah Valley. After a decade of honing her craft as the frontwoman of local cover bands, she transformed pandemic loneliness into two EPs – “Prime Rainbow Conditions” and “Queen of the Local”, the latter of which was successfully crowdfunded in March 2023. With completely independent legwork, Porter’s music is making rounds nationally and internationally. Audiences react wonderfully to Porter’s fusion of honky tonk and singer-songwriter sounds performed solo or with her band, The Rhinestone Roses. Most recently, Porter was inducted into Rissi Palmer’s Color Me Country Class of 2024.