Sisters Bianca and Gabriela LeDuc will headline Tega Cay's Catawba Fest on Saturday, Sept. 26, bringing their country-rock duo Diamond Dixie to the Catawba Park stage at 4:45 p.m.
Admission is free.
The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 2531 New Grey Rock Road. Diamond Dixie returns to Tega Cay after performing at the city's 2025 Uncle Sam Jam, according to the city's Catawba Fest page.
The Nashville-based duo, originally from Orlando, has opened for Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker and played VIP sets for Miranda Lambert and Luke Bryan, YoCo News reported. The sisters also won Ole Red's nationwide Battle of the Bands, according to Country Beat Magazine.
Their father taught them guitar as kids and played in several garage bands. That classic-rock upbringing shows up in Diamond Dixie's sound, which fuses country songwriting with influences the duo has traced to Steven Tyler, Axl Rose and Robert Plant.
"Music felt like it was something we always wanted to do," Bianca LeDuc told YoCo News.
The duo released an EP called "Time Well Wasted" on Aug. 21, Country Beat Magazine reported. Bianca LeDuc plays banjo on the record and may work a banjo take on Metallica's "Enter Sandman" into the Catawba Fest set, according to YoCo News.
Diamond Dixie has more than one million social media followers and has performed at CMA Fest and House of Blues, according to Country Beat Magazine. The duo made its Carolina Country Music Fest debut in Myrtle Beach in June, WMBF News reported.
The rest of the Catawba Stage lineup includes Gold Hill Middle School Band at 10:15 a.m. under the direction of Jennifer Isenhour, Encore Music Studios at 11 a.m., Mix Tape Entertainment karaoke at 1:15 p.m. and School of Rock Fort Mill at 2:15 p.m. The festival opens at 10 a.m. with a welcome from Mayor Miller, City Council members and emcee Cynthia Striegel. The Tega Cay Veterans Association will present the colors.
Beyond the stage, Catawba Fest features a Children's Entrepreneur Market in its third year, a Smokin' Ed's Eating Competition sponsored by PuckerButt Pepper Company in its fourth year, plus arts and crafts vendors and food trucks.
Free shuttle service runs from Carolinas Cornerstone Church to Catawba Park starting at 10 a.m., with buses every 15 minutes. Accessible transportation is available.
Upcoming community events: The Choose Kind 5K takes place Saturday, Oct. 17, on Tega Cay trails. The U.S. Marine Band plays a free concert in Clover on Thursday, Oct. 29.
