Mountain Jam celebrated its 13th year with a weekend of soaring jams and sing-along fun. This year, the intimate Upstate New York festival boasted an incredible lineup, brimming with legends like Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton, as well as rising stars like White Denim, Holly Bowling and Moon Hooch.

At the Thursday-night pre-party, Marco Benevento gave headliner Steve Miller a playful nod with a cover of “Swingtown” and later brought out singer-songwriter Leslie Mendelson to join him on his tune “At the Show”.

Friday marked the first full day of the festival, with folk rockers The Revivalists putting on a high energy set and welcoming harmonica player Jackson Kincheloe of Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds for a sit-in.

In a moment of levity, The Head and the Heart mistakenly mispronounced the name of headliners The String Cheese Incident’s name, leading to some creative banter and an admission from singer Jonathan Russell that he grew up in Virginia and always wanted to see the Colorado jammers live.

Later, White Denim played a psychedelic, jam-heavy set complete with Grateful Dead teases. Dressed in a Steal Your Face hoodie, singer-guitarist James Petralli ended the performance by physically ripping every string off his guitar. Obviously, there was no encore.

Friday headliner String Cheese fittingly honored Gregg Allman at Mountain Jam, a festival named after the classic Allman Brothers Band song. SCI took the crowd by surprise by busting out a new cover of Dickey Betts’ classic song “Hot Lanta,” and they also played “My One and Only,” a song from their new album Believe that was written with Bonnie Paine from Elephant Revival, who had played earlier in the day. The band later encored with their new cover of Talking Heads’ “Nothing But Flowers.”

On Saturday afternoon, Marty Stuart showed a knowledge of his surroundings by opening with “I Know You Rider” and playing another folk classic that was adopted by the Dead, “El Paso.”

While the daylight hours were filled with a variety of acts, Saturday night was all about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They kicked off their set, as they have regularly this year, with the first song on their first LP, “Rockin’ Around (With You),” and went on to perform hit after hit including “Running Down A Dream,” “Free Fallin’,” “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” “Yer So Bad” and more. Stuart also sat in on “Crawling Back to You.” Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell first worked with Stuart on the late-era Johnny Cash album Unchained and produced his recent LP, Way Out West.

After a weekend of overcast skies, Sunday afternoon was sunny and steamy as The Infamous Stringdusters kept the mountain moving with their brand of soulful jamgrass. Highlights included an haunting cover of Pink Floyd’s “Fearless” and their take on “Highwayman” by supergroup The Highwaymen (both tracks were featured on the band’s 2015 Undercover EP).

Peter Frampton took the stage early Sunday evening with a career-spanning set, including a touching “Black Hole Sun” cover to honor the late Chris Cornell. Frampton also played his newest single, “I Saved A Bird Today,” and later ended his set with his version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”

Frampton made one last appearance during tour-mate Steve Miller’s set, the final performance of the weekend. The two rock legends teamed up to cover blues standards “Stranger Blues” by Elmore James and “Who’s Been Talkin’” by Howlin’ Wolf. Afterwards, Steve Miller Band wrapped up the festival with their fun brand of rock-and-roll, keeping everyone happy with hits like “Rock’n Me” and laying into a jammed-out “Fly Like An Eagle” before ending with “Jet Airliner.”