Montgomery County Kansas End of Summer Bash Festival

Late September hands Cherryvale a farewell to the season that runs on guitar amplifiers rather than ceremony. The gathering is published simply as the End of Summer Bash, a day of live rock stacking roughly ten acts onto one bill at one venue. Dated editions surface on Saturdays in twenty twenty-four, twenty twenty-five and twenty twenty-six, and the layers agree on the shape of the day even where they spell the venue’s name differently.

No layer consulted adds the word Festival to the event’s name, so the longer title above belongs to the catalogue rather than to local usage. The sources print a small family of shorter forms instead: plain End of Summer Bash in guide, concert-listing and newspaper-calendar layers; numbered billings reading End of Summer Bash III, End of Summer Bash 5 and End of Summer Bash VII in podcast and events-listing layers; and the compressed EoSB in podcast conversation. Each form is kept exactly as printed.

About

Cherryvale hosts the bash in Montgomery County, Kansas. Cherryvale is not the county seat; Independence, another town in the same county, holds that role, and nothing connects it to any countywide programme.

The grounds appear under two names that this article keeps apart. A podcast layer and an events-listing layer place the bash at My Place Event Grounds, Cherryvale, while a local newspaper calendar prints the shorter My Place Bar, Cherryvale. Whether the two wordings describe one property under formal and familiar names, the layers never say, so both stand here unmerged.

Whoever organises the day goes unnamed in every layer read. The closest the record comes is a podcast episode dated the first of September twenty twenty-six, where two Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce members appear as End of Summer Bash Premier Sponsors to discuss that year’s edition. That sponsorship evidences local business backing, never proof that the chamber or its members run the day.

For a useful comparison, see the Montgomery County Kansas Mayfest Festival for another county festival.

The programme is deliberately narrow: podcast and concert-listing layers describe multi-band live rock bills of around ten acts, and no layer mentions food stalls, craft vendors or children’s attractions. Admission is a blank too: no ticket price, no free-entry promise.

Quick Facts

Item	What the layers record
Published name	End of Summer Bash, with no layer adding the word Festival
Host town	Cherryvale, Montgomery County, Kansas
County seat	Independence; Cherryvale does not hold that role
Venue as printed	My Place Event Grounds in some layers, My Place Bar in a newspaper calendar
Documented editions	September Saturdays in twenty twenty-four, twenty twenty-five and twenty twenty-six, plus an edition billed III, year unprinted
Numbered billings	End of Summer Bash III, End of Summer Bash 5 and End of Summer Bash VII, forms kept unmerged
Hours in the record	One o’clock starts in podcast layers; one in the afternoon to ten in the evening in a newspaper entry
Programme	Multi-band live rock bills of around ten acts across a single day
Admission	No price and no free-entry claim appears in any layer read
Organiser	None named in any layer; two chamber members appear as premier sponsors on a podcast

History

The bash has no written founding story in the layers consulted; its past must be read out of its billings. Three numbered editions appear in print: an End of Summer Bash III tied to the tenth of September in a podcast post whose year is never printed, an End of Summer Bash 5 held on Saturday the twenty-first of September twenty twenty-four, and an End of Summer Bash VII attached to the twenty twenty-six edition by an events-listing layer. The numerals suggest a yearly sequence, yet the layers mix styles freely, Roman three and seven beside an Arabic five, and no source lines them up into an official count.

Because the styles and sources differ, this article declines to convert the highest billing into a start date. The events-listing layer behind End of Summer Bash VII calls that edition the seventh of its kind, the strongest continuity claim anywhere in the record. It remains one layer’s billing rather than a documented founding, and editions before the third billing are absent from everything read.

Around the numbered editions sit plainer traces. A local newspaper calendar entry, dated only to a Wednesday the sixth of September with its year not shown, lists an End of Summer Bash at My Place Bar running from one in the afternoon to ten in the evening. A festival-guide layer lists the twentieth of September twenty twenty-five, independently backed by a band’s tour listing for that Saturday. The September twenty twenty-six podcast episode, with chamber members billed as premier sponsors, shows the event promoted on local audio shortly before its seventh-billed running.

What to Expect

The bill itself is the entire attraction, so a visitor’s day rises and falls with the running order. Podcast layers describe the earliest documented edition as a ten-band event beginning at one in the afternoon, and the twenty twenty-four billing likewise names ten performing acts, giving the day a density more like a small festival than a bar night stretched long. Sets roll from early afternoon toward evening at a single venue, with no second stage competing for attention.

For twenty twenty-six, a concert-listing layer names the act We Are Arya among the performers on Saturday the nineteenth of September, a rare detail in a record that usually withholds line-ups. Beyond that name, the layers speak of around ten acts without printing a timetable. Arrive expecting a long, loud afternoon rather than a sequence of named performances, and treat the closing hours flexibly, since the only full span printed anywhere is the newspaper calendar’s one in the afternoon until ten in the evening.

Silence in the record also shapes the visit. With no food, vendor or family programme documented, eating in town around the sets is the safer assumption, and nothing in print promises children’s entertainment. Its appeal lies in exactly that focus.

Planning Your Visit

Because no organiser publishes a page for the bash, planning rests on listings that appear as September approaches. A festival-guide layer carried the date in both twenty twenty-five and twenty twenty-six, and concert-listing layers pick the event up act by act, so checking those two kinds of source in late August gives the firmest picture of the coming edition. A podcast episode dated the first of September twenty twenty-six shows local audio promotion in the pattern too.

One piece of care matters in reaching the grounds: the venue prints as My Place Event Grounds in the podcast and events-listing layers but as My Place Bar in the newspaper calendar, so anyone searching maps or asking directions in Cherryvale should try both wordings. Layers print a street address for the venue, noted here without reproducing it. On admission the record offers nothing, so carry cash against an unannounced door charge. With an early-afternoon start and music running deep into the evening, arranging the drive home after dark is the sensible default for visitors from outside Montgomery County.

A Sample Saturday at the Bash

An itinerary must be built from the few times the record actually prints. Arrive in Cherryvale before one in the afternoon, since podcast layers give the earliest documented edition a one o’clock start with ten bands ahead of it, and spend the first hours near the stage while the early acts rotate through; a ten-act bill rewards those who hear the openers as much as the closers.

By mid-afternoon the bill is in full flow and the newspaper calendar’s span suggests no natural break, so eat when a gap between sets allows rather than waiting for a scheduled interval print never promises. Toward evening the order thickens toward its headline end; the twenty twenty-six listing of We Are Arya shows named acts anchoring a day whose bill mostly circulates without names. Stay to the end of the music, which the longest documented span places around ten at night.

Namesakes, Near Misses and the Shape of the Day

Part of understanding this event is separating it from everything sharing its name. A Coffeyville senior citizens activity centre datebook carries an End of Summer Bash entry that turns out to be a fitness mix class, an unrelated same-name item in another Montgomery County town that this article disowns. An emailed namesake about cardboard boat races at an unstated clubhouse is likewise a different happening. Events under the identical name in Dodge City, Kansas, and in Maryland belong to other places entirely, and none of their details are imported here.

Against the multi-day county fairs elsewhere in this catalogue, the Cherryvale bash is strikingly lean: one day, one venue, one bill of around ten rock acts, with no documented midway, market or ceremony around it. The third billing survives only as a podcast post with its year missing, the fifth as a dated podcast account with ten acts named, and the seventh as a cluster of guide, concert-listing and events-listing traces fixing Saturday the nineteenth of September twenty twenty-six.

Before You Set Out

• Confirm the date in a festival-guide or concert listing in late August; no organiser page anchors it
• Search the venue under both My Place Event Grounds and My Place Bar before travelling
• Carry cash, because no layer states whether admission is charged or free
• Arrive before one in the afternoon to catch the early acts on a ten-band bill
• Eat in town around the sets; no food programme is documented
• Plan the return drive for after dark; music is documented as late as ten in the evening
• Ignore the Coffeyville fitness-class listing and the boat-race email; both are different events

Beyond the Music

A one-day rock bill gives an outsider a particular reason to visit Cherryvale: not a fairground weekend, but a Saturday anchored to one venue and one crowd. The town emerging from the layers is small and self-reliant, its event carried by listings, a podcast conversation and chamber-member sponsorship rather than any publicity machine. For travellers who value that grassroots texture, the bash opens a window onto how a small Montgomery County community entertains itself at summer’s close.

The county around the event repays a slower approach as well. Independence, the county seat, and Coffeyville sit within the same county fabric, and a visitor already driving in is well placed to treat the trip as an introduction to the area. Nothing in the sources bundles the bash with other attractions, so any wider exploring is the traveller’s own addition to a day the music fills completely.

Why a Small Bash Leaves a Mark

The bash matters in the record out of proportion to its size, because it shows a local music scene sustaining itself in print. Ten-act bills in successive Septembers, a sponsorship billing carried by chamber of commerce members and a podcast devoted to the event’s performers describe a fixture a town of Cherryvale’s scale could easily have let lapse.

It also matters as a lesson in reading small events honestly. Almost everything a reader might want beyond the date and the bill, from admission to organisation, goes unstated in the sources, and the useful response is to say so rather than decorate the gap. What survives is enough: a named event, a named town, a venue in two spellings, and a run of September Saturdays loud enough to leave traces across four kinds of layer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which name does the Cherryvale event actually answer to in print?

Every layer read calls it End of Summer Bash, sometimes numbered, as in End of Summer Bash III, 5 or VII, and sometimes compressed to EoSB in podcast talk. The word Festival appears in no source layer, so the longer title atop this page is a catalogue convenience rather than the event’s own billing.

Who puts the bash on, according to the sources?

Nobody is named as organiser in any layer consulted. The nearest credit is a podcast episode from the first of September twenty twenty-six in which two Cherryvale Chamber of Commerce members appear as End of Summer Bash Premier Sponsors to discuss that year’s edition, a billing that shows local backing without identifying who books the acts or runs the gate.

Are children catered for during the day?

No layer describes a children’s programme, family area or daytime attraction beyond the music itself. The documented content is a multi-band rock bill of around ten acts at a venue also printed as a bar, so parents should treat the bash as an adult-oriented music day unless a future listing says otherwise.

Could the similarly named listings elsewhere send me to the wrong town?

Yes, and the record holds several traps. A Coffeyville senior centre datebook uses End of Summer Bash for a fitness class, an emailed namesake concerns cardboard boat races, and separate same-titled events exist in Dodge City and in Maryland. The Cherryvale editions are the ones tied to My Place, in either printed venue form, on a September Saturday.

What to Expect From the Next Montgomery County Kansas End of Summer Bash Festival

How often is Montgomery County Kansas End of Summer Bash Festival held?

The dated editions fall on Saturdays in September twenty twenty-four, twenty twenty-five and twenty twenty-six, and the events-listing layer behind the latest bills it in annual terms as the seventh of its kind. Numbered billings reaching back through a fifth and a third edition point the same way, toward a yearly rhythm, though no organiser publishes a statement of frequency.

When is the next Montgomery County Kansas End of Summer Bash Festival?

No layer read announces a date beyond Saturday the nineteenth of September twenty twenty-six. If the documented September pattern holds, the next running would fall on a Saturday late in September twenty twenty-seven, most likely at the same venue, but that is inference rather than a published fixture and should be confirmed against fresh listings.

Will the dates change?

Nothing in the record suggests a move away from September: every dated edition and numbered billing sits in that month, and the one newspaper calendar entry without a year also falls on a September Wednesday. The exact Saturday has shifted between the nineteenth, the twentieth and the twenty-first across recent years, so the day within the month can move even while the month stays fixed.

Closing Note

The End of Summer Bash earns its page the way it earns its crowd: without fuss and without paperwork. Cherryvale’s September Saturday of rock music is documented well enough to plan around and loosely enough to demand care from anyone describing it; this article has preferred the record’s gaps to any decoration of them. If the billings keep climbing, an eighth edition should surface in the same listings that carried the fifth and seventh.