The Rustic Cow Foundation is a not-for-profit organization set up for the purpose of providing free or low-cost music and performance-art related shows and educational events in Newport and Cocke County, TN. 

Based out of The Rustic Cow Ice Cream Eatery and Cow Cafe, The RC Foundation is set up to grow, headquarter and produce these programs. 

We wish to inspire the young, and young-at-heart in Newport and Cocke County, TN through music and the performance arts starting with hospitality in the ice cream eatery and coffee shops - located in the home of Rocky Top with a strong history and heritage of music and arts - in an atmosphere where we offer a space in which everyone can gather, inspire and encourage each other, and be a part of our family in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. 

Because....ice cream and music don't discriminate.