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Welcome to the website for the Watermelon Park Rock Fest, sponsored by the School of Rock of Greater Washington DC. Watermelon Park Rock Fest is a family-friendly rock music festival featuring the music of the finest teen and pre-teen musicians. These musicians are students from three School of Rock locations (Ashburn, VA, Silver Spring, MD and Vienna, VA). Activities include rock music on the main stage, camping, cookouts, river-tubing, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, bonfire and much more. Great music, beautiful river, fresh air, nice people and the smell of your favorite foods on the grill - that's what the Watermelon Park Rock Fest is about. Here's what some of the attendees at Watermelon Park Rock Fest 2010 had to say: "This event was AWESOME! In fact it was sooo awesome that we are hoping to do this again. Again this summer, or again next year as a yearly event. You guys did a great job orchestrating the whole thing." We had a BLAST at Watermelon Park! Great Music, Great People and what a great place to spend some time in nature! Thanks to all who came! Let's do it again next year!! We had SO MUCH FUN! Thanks to everyone who was part of the planning and part of the partying! Our DC area SOR kids and families are the best... it was so nice to connect with folks from the other schools. ROCK ON!!!!! And we WILL BE THERE next year! You guys know how to rock a camping trip! Thanks for letting us camp with you Saturday night. So, so much fun! I can't wait till next year!

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Watermelon Park is a well-maintained campground nestled up along the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains just east of Berryville, Virginia in Clarke County. The tranquility of the calm river along with the backdrop of the Appalachian wilderness is something to see! Watermelon Park gets it's name from the fact that in the 1940's the compound was a thriving Watermelon field.

The music tradition runs deep at Watermelon Park. The park began hosting single day music events around 1943. As just about any current Bluegrass or Country artists could tell you, the park was the site of the first multi-day bluegrass festival in history, happening first sometime in the early 1960?s. Since then Watermelon Park has been host to a staggering lineup of now legendary performers including The Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Flat & Scruggs, Patsy Cline, and The Stanley Brothers, to name but a few. Today, the annual Watermelon Park Fest continues the tradition of bluegrass music at Watermelon Park (see sample YouTube video below).

The park features tent camping next to the river, RV camping with water and electric hook-up, a large bath/shower house for both men and women, a fully supplied Camp Store for all those things you may have forgotten to bring and plenty of "must have" items like ice cream, hot coffee, various snacks, camp gear etc...

Watermelon Park Campground also offers everyone's favorite seasonal pastime...Tubing down the river! You can also rent a canoe or kayak with specified trips for your day! Watermelon Park takes pride in the on-going tradition of low rates and a "laid back" friendly staff that is always willing to help out with any of your needs. Please come visit us soon!! Once you have...... you will be back.... again and again!