The mark consists of the black stylized words "LAKE NORMAN" above the design of a rooster with a black body, red tail and comb and wattles, yellow beak with black outline, and white blue, and black eyes; the rooster is resting on blue water with white waves surrounding the black stylized word "FOLK" with yellow dots inside the letters above the black stylized word "ART" with yellow dots inside the letters above a black rectangle around a yellow background with the stylized word "FESTIVAL" in smaller black type inside and bracketed by red stars. The entire design is surrounded by a border of a black line inside a stylized jagged yellow line inside a stylized jagged red line.