I’m a Mountain Grrl!

Press 2024

Press 2023

  • Mountain Top News

    The Mountain Grrl Experience will kick off its 3rd annual festival on Thursday June 15.

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  • Tour Pike County

    Rebecca Lynn Howard Returns Home to Eastern Kentucky: The Mountain Grrl Experience

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  • Appalachian News Express

    Mountain Grrl Experience held in Pikeville

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  • WYMT

    APP hosts art exhibit focused on celebrating the ‘Mountain Grrls’

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  • Tourist and Visitor Guide: Eastern Kentucky & The Country Music Highway

    Help for Appalachian Women is focus of the Mt. Grrl Experience

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  • Mountain Grrl Experience Scheduled

    Appalachian News-Express

    Mountain Grrl Experience Scheduled

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  • Mountain Grrl Experience: More than a Music Festival

    Mountain Association

    Mountain Grrl Experience: More than a Music Festival

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  • What the Shuck Podcast

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  • Mountain Top News

    Mountain Grrl Experience Art Exhibition to Debut Ahead of the Festival goes here

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Mountain Grrl Press 2022

We won a Traverse Award from the Kentucky Travel Industry Association!

We won a Traverse Award from the Kentucky Travel Industry Association!

The Mountain Grrl Experience was recognized in partnership with Pikeville-Pike County Tourism by receiving a Kentucky Travel Industry Association (KTIA) Traverse Award for Excellence in Marketing in November, 2022. Pikeville-Pike County Tourism’s collaboration with the Mountain Grrl Experience was recognized with a Bronze Award for Experience Development. Read all about it here.

Mountain Grrl Experience in the News!

  • Martin County-Tug Valley Mountain Citizen Article

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  • Dave Trippin' Article

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  • Appalachian News Express Article

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Pikeville Tourism sees upswing in 2021

  • Tourism Tuesday-Mountain Grrl Edition

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  • Pikeville, Pike County Tourism sees upswing in 2021, data shows

    “The Mountain Grrl Festival… made a debut in 2021 and because of their success, will continue in 2022”

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  • Brianna Robinson's Interview with Kris Preston

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  • Press Release for Arts Meets Activism Grant Award from Kentucky Foundation for Women

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  • Robin Irwin's Interview with WEKU's Eastern Standard

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BODS Podcast

Featuring Vendor Services Coordinator, Dara Hart Riley

Press 2021

Mountain Grrl Experience in the News!

  • Crystal Jone's Podcast Interview with Kris Preston

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  • Press Release for Artist Enrichment Grant Award from Kentucky Foundation for Women

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  • Eli Griffith's Podcast Interview with Kris Preston on the Homegrown Happy Hour

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  • ‘In The Studio’ with Allen Bolling on Q95.5 FM! FM

  • Dave Trippin': Sizzling Summer Music Festivals

  • Mountain Top News' Jeremy Justice on Broken Throne Brewery and Lady of the Mountain Ale!

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  • Jeremy Justice of Mountain Top News speaks with Kris Preston about the Mountain Grrl Experience

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  • We made the 6 o'clock news! Interview with Buddy Forbes on WYMT TV.

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