Friends of the Cheat's annual Fundraiser and Outreach event for river enthusiasts, families, musicians, and artists!
Time for the obligatory NO DOGS post. We at FOC are HUGE dog lovers. We love dogs of all shapes and sizes. However, we don’t love them at Cheat Fest. The Festival does not allow dogs on site or in the FOC Campground. NO EXCEPTIONS. You will be turned away if you try to bring […]
Make sure to check out our Education Eddy in the Pavilion on Saturday for some great workshops!
Ready, set, go!!!!!!!! Cheat Fest 2022 tickets are now on sale! Check out the link below to buy presale Friday/Saturday combo tickets for $35. That’s a $10 savings and it buys you a whole lotta fun! Cheat Fest 2022 Tickets
Cheat Fest planning is in full swing. Check out our poster below for the 2022 musical lineup!
Howdy Cheat Festers! Spring is just around the corner – and Friends of the Cheat is kicking it into high gear – weaving together all the details of the 27th Annual Cheat River Festival. Sadly, Cheat Fest is VIRTUAL again this year, but we are planning all sorts of great content for you including: live-streaming […]
Tips for Other Organizations Moving to the Virtual World Organizing a virtual festival is quite different than an in person one – what a learning curve it was! Below are a few tips that we learned from our experience that we hope might help other folks who are exploring this space. One of the big […]
The Cheat River Festival, Friends of the Cheat’s annual kick-off to summer, was started by paddlers and river stewards to raise money to restore the Cheat River’s waters polluted from a century of coal mining. It’s now a celebration of two and a half decades of successful clean up efforts, essentially a family reunion, and […]
T-SHIRT ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT! Our wonderful t-shirt printing company, SustainU, recently reopened for business!! We are going to continue selling fest shirt pre-orders through May 26th; after that we’ll place our final order. We don’t yet know how long the shirts will take to print given COVID19 complications, but will keep folks up to date […]
Thank you everyone who joined together from afar for our Cheat Fest From Home Week. Extra big thanks to the FOC staff, board, all of our volunteers, the musicians, speakers, community members, and sponsors, those who donated, those who ran the 5K, those who made art, those who tuned in from home to dance, and […]
Cheat Fest From Home Live Streaming Begins at 2PM Saturday, May 2nd! All videos streaming on our Facebook & Youtube Channels Saturday: 2:00PM – Forever: Music & Dancing All Day (Sched TBA) All of the bands slated to play Cheat Fest are PLAYING CHEAT FEST! Thank you to these wonderful musicians. Enjoy music from members […]