I might as well put in a little plug for Mountain View, Arkansas as well. The Arkansas Folk Festival is the third weekend in April and there are scheduled concerts at several venues in town and a lot of jamming and picking on the courtsquare and anywhere else people with instruments might gather.   The Ozark Folk Center opens up for the season that weekend and is open Wed through Saturday thereafter offering concerts of traditional Ozark music and also demonstrations of traditional Ozark handcraft.

Ozark Folk Center