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s The Crooked Road welcomes you to Southwest and the third annual Mountains of Music AHomecoming, we are celebrating that most basic means of musical expression – singing. Folk song collectors, sometimes referred to as “songcatchers,” have wandered the mountains of Southwest Virginia for over a century in search of traditional singers. The region’s wealth of songs and singers has been well documented in the work of folklorists like Olive Dame Campbell and Englishman Cecil Sharp, who published English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians in 1917.

The Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution have been here too, extracting from the area’s song tradition like miners digging the coal. Fast forwarding 100 years, the region is still a treasure trove of singers preserving the songs that represent a connection to the cultures that settled the region as America came into its own as a new country.

To celebrate these traditions, singers from , Scotland, England, and America will perform in three and one workshop during the Homecoming, providing a remarkably international perspective on this ancient art form. A focus on great singing continues with artists like & Quicksilver, who have set the standard for great bluegrass and bluegrass gospel harmony singing for decades. Influential new voices like Amythyst Kiah and Dori Freeman, who are raking in accolades from music critics nationwide, are also presented this year.

Each year the Homecoming features a specific musical tradition besides our own, and this year we feature the music of Scotland with Alasdair Fraser, one of the finest fiddlers Scotland has ever produced, along with cellist Natalie Haas. Add in revered Scottish folk and ballad singer Archie Fisher from and we have a great sampling of a music and culture that has profoundly shaped our own.

It’s called “The Crooked Road’s Old Music & Dance Spectacular” and the name is not hyperbole. When you bring together some of the finest old time musicians and dancers from an 8,600-square mile region known for its old time music, what else would it be? These dynamic artists breathe life into every facet of old time music – , / duets, music, banjo contests, flatfoot dancing, and old time string band music in two concerts.

The 2017 Homecoming includes three culinary-based Feastival events, each featuring delicious traditional and farm-to-table cuisine, live musical performances, works by a local artist or craftsperson, and a presentation by acclaimed food author and Appalachian cultural ambassador Ronni Lundy. The Feastival events illustrate the ways in which inspires creativity, whether you’re a chef, musician, writer, or artisan.

From and the Earls of Leicester at HoustonFest, two concerts of Crooked Road Masters, II and the Clinch Mountain Boys joined by and in a tribute to , to Mark O’Connor featuring the O’Connor Band fresh off their Grammy win, you can’t go wrong at the Homecoming.

And if that’s not enough, join us for Scots-Irish genealogy workshops, jam sessions, “canorkling” in the Clinch River, the Wayne Henderson Music Festival (one of several festivals), a community meal and gospel sing, or take flat foot dance lessons. Relax, take your time, see what’s around the next bend of The Crooked Road, and make some new friends at the Mountains of Music Homecoming. See ya!

- The Crooked Road Board of Directors

June 9-17, 2017 • 2 Introduction: The Year We Sang ...... 2 Sponsors ...... 4 Wayfaring Strangers ...... 6 Buying Tickets ...... 7 Homecoming Overview ...... 8 Travel Information ...... 9 The Birth of The Crooked Road ...... 13 Mission Statement & Staff ...... 14 What’s That Buzzing Sound ...... 16 TCR Merchandise ...... 17 What’s Happening At The Major Venues ...... 19 Area Traditional Music Concerts ...... 21 Jam Sessions ...... 22 The Stanley Legacy ...... 23 Appalachian Cuisine ...... 25 West Zone: Crooked Road Concerts ...... 27 Scottish Culture ...... 32 West Zone: Cultural Experiences ...... 36 An Outdoor Paradise ...... 38 How to Talk Like a Southwest Virginian ...... 42 Central Zone: Crooked Road Concerts ...... 45 Central Zone: Cultural Experiences ...... 51 Craft ...... 53 East Zone: Crooked Road Concerts ...... 57 East Zone: Cultural Experiences ...... 63 Ballads ...... 65

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SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HERITAGE

My home’s across the My home’s across the Blue Ridge Mountains My home’s across the Blue Ridge Mountains And I never expect to see you anymore.

hey must have felt that way once—more than a century before that song was Twritten—when the settlers rolled down the Great Wagon Road that followed the valleys between the wall of mountains that stretched on forever. When the settlers reached the middle of Virginia—about where Roanoke is today—some of them headed west on the , ending up on the 18th century frontier, in southwest Virginia, east , eastern , and western .

They, or their recent forebears, had already made one perilous journey, across from Scotland or Ireland or England, to settle in the New World, but the eastern seaboard was already getting crowded by the late eighteenth century, mostly full of the people they left Britain to get away from. So they ventured deeper into the mountains, looking for a place that felt like home. They never knew how close they were to being back home; nearly two more centuries would pass before geologists put together the ancient puzzle of ’s Triassic period to discover that millions of years ago the Appalachians had been part of those same mountains in Britain from which many of the settlers themselves had come.

The new people brought what they could from home—not material things, because the ships were small, so you had to pack light—but they carried with them everything they could fit into their heads, because memories were all they had left of the places they’d come from, and they treasured them. They handed down these memories to their children and grandchildren, which is why in 1916 musicologist Cecil Sharp found the traditional folksongs he was looking for, not in Britain where they had originated, but in the southern Appalachians, where they were cherished remnants of the past.

Things changed a bit in the new world. If you came over with an unusual name—Rhys (Welsh) or O’Laoghaire (Irish) or McDiarmuid (Scots)—sooner or later some census taker would standardize you to “Reese,” “O’Leary,” and “McDermott.” The songs and stories got naturalized, too. “The Wexford Girl” became “The Knoxville Girl,” and the Child ballad “Lady Margaret” was demoted to “Little Margaret” over here, but the plots of the songs stayed the same, and the tunes were still recognizable. When “The Lily of the West” was composed, back in Ireland, the “West” was the coast of Ireland: Galway or Connemara. Many years later when people sang the song in America, the “West” they pictured was Kentucky (“When first I came to Louisville, some pleasure there to find…”)

You never know when the family resemblance is going to peek out at you. Years ago, I took a newly-arrived Scottish professor to an Appalachian storytelling festival. The speaker began a tale about an old farmer who was fishing in a mountain stream and caught a big old trout. As the story wound on to the part where the farmer found a gold ring in the belly of the fish, the Scottish professor began to nudge me with his elbow. Finally when the story ended, I asked him what he had wanted so urgently to tell me. “Right,” he said. “About that story the fellow told. First of all, it wasn’t an old farmer; it was St. Mungo of Glasgow; and it wasn’t a mountain stream; it was the Firth of Clyde. And it wasn’t a trout; it was a salmon. – But the rest of the story is correct.”

They brought their fiddle tunes from Scotland, their knowledge of whisky-making from Ireland, and their quilt patterns from a time before history began. (The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter.) But just as English timothy hay became Kentucky bluegrass in the New World, sooner or later almost everything that the settlers brought with them got a North American spin. We were a long way from where we started, but if you look closely, you can see where we hailed from.

Sharyn McCrumb, an award-winning Southern writer, is best known for her Appalachian “Ballad” novels, including best sellers The Ballad of Tom Dooley, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, and Ghost Riders. Named a Virginia Woman of History by the Library of Virginia, she was awarded the Mary Hobson Prize for Arts & Letters in 2014.

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Tickets for Crooked Road concerts may be purchased online at mtnsofmusic.com, at the door on the day of the (unless sold out), and at local ticket outlets listed below. Tickets are general admission. Advance tickets to some concerts are available through May 31, 2017. Photo credit: MyMCMedia.org

Local Ticket Outlet Street Address Telephone #

EAST ZONE Floyd County Tourism Office...... 109 East Main St., Floyd, VA 24091 ...... 540 745-4407 Blue Ridge Institute & Museum...... 20 Museum Dr., Ferrum, VA 24088 ...... 540 365-4412 Giles County Chamber of Commerce...... 101 S Main St., Pearisburg, VA 24134 ...... 540 921-5000 Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center...... 300 S. Pepper St., Christiansburg, VA 24073 ...... 540 382-5644 Reynolds Homestead ...... 463 Homestead Lane, Critz, VA 24082 ...... 276 694-7181 Pulaski County Visitor Center...... 4440 Clayburn Blvd., Dublin, VA 24084 ...... 540 674-4161 Radford Visitor Center inside Glencoe Museum...... 600 Unruh Dr., Radford, VA 24141 ...... 540 731-5031

CENTRAL ZONE Wolf Creek Indian Village...... 6394 N Scenic Hwy., Bastian, VA 24314 ...... 276 688-3438 Blue Ridge Plateau Regional Visitor Center in Carroll County...... 231 Farmers Market Dr., Suite #5, Hillsville, VA 24343 ...... 276 730-3100 Galax Visitor Center...... 110 East Grayson St., Galax, VA 24333 ...... 276 238-8130 Grayson Tourism...... 107 East Main St., Independence, VA 24348...... 276 773-3711 Lincoln Theatre...... 117 E Main St., Marion, VA 24354 ...... 276 783-6092 Appalachian Arts Center...... 2157 Steelesburg Hwy., Cedar Bluff, VA 24609...... 276 596-9188 Wytheville Meeting Center...... 333 Community Blvd., Wytheville, VA 24382 ...... 276 223-3510

WEST ZONE The Fuller Store...... 289 Main St., Haysi, VA 24256 ...... 276 865-4845 Pennington Gap Town Hall...... 528 Industrial Dr., Pennington Gap, VA 24277 ...... 276 546-4000 Honaker Town Hall...... Honaker Town Hall, 455 Heritage Dr., Honaker, VA 24260 ...... 276 873-6556 Natural Tunnel State Park ...... 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway, Duffield, VA 24244 ...... 276 940-2674 Heartwood...... One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon, Va 24210 ...... 276 492-2400 Emory & Henry College, McGlothlin Center for the Arts...... 30481 Garnand Dr., Emory, VA 24327 ...... 276 944-6333 Wise County Chamber of Commerce...... 765 Park Avenue, SW, Norton, VA 24273 ...... 276 679-0961 Damascus Town Hall...... 210 West Laurel Ave., Damascus, VA 24236 ...... 276 475-3831

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Welcome to Southwest Virginia and The Crooked Road’s third annual Mountains of Music Homecoming (MoMH). We’re excited to be in our third year and want you to enjoy discovering what lies around each bend of The Crooked Road. Let’s start with some travel related information that may help.

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The Region At 8,600 square miles, Southwest Virginia is about the same size as New Jersey and includes 19 counties, 4 cit- ies, and over 50 towns. The region has some incredibly beautiful mountain and valley landscapes and includes the two highest mountains in Virginia, (elev. 5,729 ft.) and (elev. 5,518 ft.). Southwest Virginia actually encompasses two mountain ranges — the to the west, and the Blue Ridge mountains in the region’s eastern half. In between is the wide valley that cradles Virginia’s historic Wilderness Road.

The oaks and maples display beautiful red and orange leaves in the fall, and the region has snow most winters. Everyone delights when the pale green hue of spring returns, denoting that summer is right around the cor- Buffalo Mountain ner. Typical temperatures in June are 70 to 90 degrees during the day, dropping to a range of 45 to 65 degrees at night. Temperatures are lower at the higher eleva- tions. Have a jacket handy for any outdoor activities after dark.

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General Travel Information There are a number of sources of travel information for Southwest Virginia. The Southwest Virginia website (myswva.org) offers a wealth of information on all aspects of Southwest Virginia’s cultural offerings and things to see and do. From shopping to golfing to hiking, the Virginia state tourism website is a comprehensive source of useful travel information (virginia.org). Travel information can also be obtained from the two regional tourism agencies in Southwest Virginia, the Heart of Appalachia (heartofappalachia.com) and the Blue Ridge Travel Association (virginiablueridge.org). For all the traditional music activities, be sure to reference The Crooked Road website (thecrookedroad.org). The local tourism offices listed on page 10 are a great source for travel information via their websites or by telephone.

Airports A number of regional, national, and international airports provide access to The Crooked Road region. The closest ones are Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport (ROA), Tri-Cities Regional Airport (TRI) in Blountville, TN, and Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTI) in Greensboro, NC. Additional major airports include Charlotte- Douglas International Airport (CLT), and three Washington DC airports including Reagan National (DCA), Dulles International (IAD), and /Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).

Driving Two interstate highways (I-81 and I-77), transect Southwest Virginia, as well as several 4-lane US highways. You’ll also be traveling some of our beautiful, mountainous backroads, and cell phone and GPS services can be spotty. For that reason, we strongly recommend that you carry a current Virginia State Transportation map with you. Those maps and lots of good friendly travel advice are available at all of the Virginia Welcome Centers on the interstates. Or you can order a Virginia State Transportation map from virginiadot.org/travel/maporder.asp.

Lodging If you’re looking for lodging, you’ll find popular chain hotels along the interstates and in our larger cities and towns. With a little research on the web, you’ll also find charming B&Bs and smaller independent hotels. One of the best overall lodging resources is the Virginia Tourism website at virginia.org/PlacesToStay. The local tourism offices on page 10 can provide great recommendations on lodging opportunities in their locality.

rv info and camping Southwest Virginia is an outdoor mecca with a good selection of camping facilities for recreational vehicles including several of Virginia’s award winning State Parks (www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks). RV Park Reviews (www.rvparkreviews.com) is an excellent source for information on camping facilities in the area, and its interactive map allows camping facilities to be easily located.

Dining Dining opportunities also abound, and you’ll find many places that emphasize seasonal and local fare. The Appalachian Regional Commission’s Bon Appetit Appalachia website is an excellent resource (visitappalachia.com/ bonappetitappalachia). Dining options are also found on the Virginia Tourism website (virginia.org/directory/dining). Once again, the local tourism offices on page 10 are a valuable resource and can provide great recommendations on dining opportunities.

If you don’t find what you’re looking for with these sources, just ask the locals. They can lead you to some real gems. Or call or email us at (276) 492-2409, [email protected]. Have fun!

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All along the Crooked Road, Southwest Virginia’s unique communities feature a host of accommodation options — from charming country inns to sprawling campgrounds and cabins that line the blue waters of a mountain lake. A smorgasbord of lip smackin’ good food awaits, whether traditional barbecue, chicken and dumplins’, sausage biscuits and gravy, or fine dining featuring the haute cuisine from the kitchens of Appalachia’s best chefs.

You’re warmly invited to come stay with us awhile and sample all the treats that The Crooked Road Region offers. Just visit any of the websites below to discover a whole new world of wonderful choices or call to talk with a local tourism representative who knows all the best choices.

Y’all come! locality Website telephone #

WEST ZONE

Abingdon CVB...... visitabingdonvirginia.com...... 276 676-2282 Bristol CVB...... discoverbristol.org...... 423 989-4850 Buchanan County...... buchanancountytourism.com/tourism.html...... 276 935-6503 City of Norton...... nortonva.org...... 276 679-1160 Dickenson County...... dickensonva.org or dickensonchamber.net...... 276 926-6074 Lee County...... ilovelee.org...... 276 346-4629 Russell County...... experiencerussell.com...... 276 254-0745 Scott County...... explorescottcountyva.org...... 276 386-6521 Town of Haysi...... haysivirginia.gov or dickensonva.org...... 276 345-2052 Wise County...... visitwisecounty.com...... 276 328-2321

CENTRAL ZONE

Bland County...... blandcountyva.gov...... 276 688-4622 Carroll County...... pickplaystay.com...... 276 730-3100 City of Galax...... visitgalax.com...... 276 238-8130 Grayson County...... graysoncountyva.com...... 276 773-8002 Smyth County...... visitvirginiamountains.com...... 276 646-3306 Tazewell County...... visittazewellcounty.org...... 800 588-9401 Town of Marion...... marionva.org...... 276 783-4190 Wytheville CVB...... visitwytheville.com...... 276 223-3355

EAST ZONE

City of Radford...... visitradford.com...... 540 267-3153 Floyd County...... visitfloydva.com...... 540 239-8509 Franklin County...... visitfranklincountyva.org...... 540 483-3030 Giles County...... virginiasmtnplayground.com...... 540 921-2079 Montgomery County, Blacksburg, Christiansburg Regional Tourism...... gotomontva.com...... 540 394-4470 Patrick County...... visitpatrickcounty.org...... 276 694-6094 Pulaski County...... pulaskivatourism.org...... 540 674-1991 Town of Boones Mill...... visitfranklincountyva.org...... 540 483-3030 Town of Rocky Mount...... visitfranklincountyva.org...... 540 483-3030

June 9-17, 2017 • 10 CHOOSE THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED. ESPECIALLY IF IT’S CROOKED.

DESTINATION ADVENTURE: A ROAD TRIP GUIDE TO THE BLUE RIDGE ON STANDS JULY 2017

PROUD SPONSOR OF THE CROOKED ROAD’S MOUNTAINS OF MUSIC HOMECOMING

BLUERIDGEOUTDOORS.COM Katie Gardner Tribute CHOOSE THE ROAD KATIE ELLEN GARDNER (1963-2017) was a true friend of The Crooked Road. Having grown up in Southwest Virginia steeped in the music and influential banjo playing of her father, Olen Gardner, Katie might not have been a musician herself but she was a dedicated ambassador LESS TRAVELED. for the people and music of Southwest Virginia. When The Crooked Road started the Mountains of Music Homecoming in 2015, Katie was one of the most visible and vocal advocates for the new multi-day ESPECIALLY IF IT’S CROOKED. celebration of regional music and culture.

While she had moved from her childhood home of Christiansburg, Virginia, to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she did not let the geographical distance keep her from attending many of the MoMH concerts and events, and her enthusiasm influenced many others to attend the MoMH and to support other Crooked Road initiatives, such as the annual compilations of MoMH concert recordings. Her extraordinary support of The Crooked Road’s mission was also evident when, on more than one occasion, Katie attended the annual International Association (IBMA) Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, to work the Crooked Road booth as one of the most effective promoters of her home region, encouraging many IBMA attendees to travel to Southwest Virginia to experience the beautiful and varied heritage music traditions that continue to thrive there. Those traditions will survive in large part because of people like Katie Gardner who value those traditions so deeply. The Crooked Road is truly grateful for the wonderful gift of Katie’s support and is a much richer organization for her involvement.

DESTINATION ADVENTURE: interpretation services A ROAD TRIP GUIDE If requested at least 21 days in advance of a performance, TO THE BLUE RIDGE signing interpretation services ON STANDS JULY 2017 at Crooked Road concerts can be provided for the deaf and hard of hearing. If requested less than 21 days prior to a performance, The Crooked Road cannot guarantee such services can be provided, but will make every attempt to do so. To request signing services, call The Crooked Road at (276) 492-2409 or email us at [email protected]. PROUD SPONSOR OF THE CROOKED ROAD’S MOUNTAINS OF MUSIC HOMECOMING

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The Birth of the Crooked Road

THE IDEA On a late summer night in 2002 at a conference in Asheville, North Carolina, a group of musicians, mostly from Southwest Virginia, were having a jam session. Joe Wilson, Director of the National Council for Traditional Arts, and I were enjoying the music as the night drifted beyond midnight. We had never met before, but struck up a conversation about the wealth of the region’s traditional music, particularly in Southwest Virginia. At the time, I was working with Jim Baldwin developing the Ralph Stanley Museum in Clintwood, and Joe was working on his Blue Ridge Music Center near Galax. We talked about the economic importance of these projects to their communities and the challenges of promoting them as individual destinations.

As the music played on we talked about cross-marketing and then began to consider other venues in the region. The world-renowned Carter Fold and other music and cultural centers, such as Norton, Abingdon, Bristol, Damascus, and the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention were discussed. Out of that conversation came the concept of connecting these communities and venues with a heritage music driving trail.

We agreed to bring people in the region together to assess interest in the concept. Joe invited people knowledgeable in heritage music, and I engaged local and state government representatives, local tourism officials, and planning district commissions (PDCs).

JOURNEY BEGINS AT THE CARTER FOLD Joe arranged with for the first meeting to be held on January 7, 2003 at the Carter Fold. Despite a 6” snowfall that morning, twenty-six people came, some from more than 100 miles away. Regardless of the snow and the roaring of the large space heaters, the group was energized and shared a great lunch prepared by the ladies of Janette’s church.

The interest in the concept was strong, and it was agreed that our mission would be to provide economic opportunities for the communities of Southwest Virginia through showcasing the region’s distinctive music, venues and musicians.

At a second meeting at the Carter Fold, the original Major Venues were designated, including the Ralph Stanley Museum/ Jettie Baker Center, the Carter Fold, Birthplace of , Galax Fiddlers Convention/Rex Theater, Blue Ridge Music Center, and Floyd Country Store/County Sales. Joe Wilson suggested the name “The Crooked Road.” Some folks thought that calling it The Crooked Road might discourage bus tours, but others suggested it might attract motorcyclists (in fact the first magazine cover featuring The Crooked Road was Cycle World).

A COMMITMENT TO ACTION In June of 2003, my agency, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), invited all local government officials of counties, cities and towns and the PDCs in Southwest Virginia to meet at the Inn in Abingdon. The goals ironed out at this meeting were to make Southwest Virginia a nationally recognized heritage music destination within 3 years, and to triple heritage tourism in the region within 4 years. Within about 18 months, The Crooked Road was attracting international media.

At that meeting several local government attendees, including George Polly, Big Stone Gap Town Manager, George Nester, Administrator of Floyd County, Jim Baldwin, Director of PDC, and Ron Flanary, Director of LENOWISCO PDC, challenged the attendees to “get behind this thing” and pledge financial support. To date, visionary communities in Southwest Virginia have invested over $500,000 in The Crooked Road and have built an asset that yields an economic impact of over $9 million dollars annually.

Bill Kornrich became the initial coordinator of the group’s efforts, establishing The Crooked Road as a 501 (c) (3) non- profit organization and making the Trail a reality with the help of more key partners like the Virginia Tobacco Commission, Appalachian Regional Commission, Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority, Virginia Tourism, and USDA Rural Development.

The marketing committee had the distinctive Crooked Road logo designed, Kenny Robinson at the Virginia Department of Transportation marked the route with highway signs, and Joe Blevins of DHCD oversaw installation of 26 wayside exhibits highlighting the musical traditions of communities along the route. Capital improvements were made to the major music venues, Joe Wilson wrote a guidebook to The Crooked Road, and a website was launched promoting The Crooked Road, Southwest Virginia, and its communities to provide worldwide access to the region’s rich musical heritage.

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The Birth of the Crooked Road continued...

OFFICIAL RECOGNITION AND CONNECTION TO OTHER INITIATIVES In 2004, the Virginia General Assembly designated The Crooked Road as Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail and fixed the route to include Franklin and Patrick Counties. Governor Mark Warner signed the legislation into law and announced the designation in Clintwood in April of 2004. Today, the “Crooked Road Region” includes all 19 counties, four cities, and over 50 towns of Southwest Virginia. With the addition of Country Cabin, Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, and Heartwood, there are now nine Major Venues.

The birth of The Crooked Road laid the foundation for many other initiatives throughout the region. ‘Round the Mountain: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Network was created in 2005, and the region’s many partners are working on outdoor recreation efforts that are bringing tremendous opportunities to Southwest Virginia communities. And still, the music plays on.

Todd Christensen is the Executive Director of the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation and has been a driving force behind the creative economy efforts in Southwest Virginia.

The Crooked Road’s mission is to support tourism and economic development by celebrating and promoting this Appalachian region’s unique musical and cultural heritage. THE CROOKED ROAD’S STAFF THE CROOKED ROAD EXECUTIVE BOARD Jack Hinshelwood, The Crooked Road is a 330- Executive Director mile driving route through the John Kilgore, President Jonathan Romeo, secnic mountains of Southwest Larry Yates, Vice President Program Manager Virginia that connects nine major Matthew Hankins, Secretary heritage music venues and over Ken Heath, Treasurer Debbie Holley, 60 traditional music jams, festivals Jim Baldwin, Past President Administrative Assistant and concerts. Settlers to the region Lisa Bleakley brought the African banjo and the Deborah Cooney European fiddle, and their sounds Dylan Locke MOUNTAINS OF MUSIC have been echoing across these Amanda Parris mountains for generations. David Reemsnyder HOMECOMING TEAM Leah Ross Carrie , For more information about David Rotenizer Homecoming Coordinator Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, call Emily Spencer Dr. Ted Olson, (276) 492-2409, email Rita Surratt Assistant Coordinator and [email protected] or visit Michael Wampler Editorial Content www.thecrookedroad.org Mary Ann Hinshelwood, Deaf and Hard of Hearing EX OFFICIO Outreach, Program Review Todd Christensen Market Connections, Jackie Christian Marketing and Public Relations Steve Galyean Tyler Hughes Dr. Jean Haskell and Dr. Katie Bill Kornrich Hoffman, Homecoming Feastival Jon Lohman Event Consultants Rob Kahn, Program Review

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what’s that buzzing sound?

Southwest Virginia’s history has been told from many viewpoints. If you are reading this essay, you probably already know a bit about the region’s musical heritage. Yet like the heritage of anywhere, Southwest Virginia’s past is a chunky stew flavored with immigration, emigration, politics, economics, and a host of other spices. Still, in our research we find ourselves thinking time and again about three “ingredients” that shaped and reshaped life in Southwest Virginia over the last three centuries.

The first of these was the development of real roads. For centuries American Indian paths provided foot travelers with an effective system for getting in, around, and through Southwest Virginia, but it was the non-indigenous settlers and their followers who turned those routes into 18th century “highways” suitable for wagon traffic. The Great Road (roughly where Route 11 and Interstate 81 run today) carried tens of thousands of people and freight tonnage from and Maryland into Southwest Virginia and beyond. Major spur roads (the Carolina Road, the Wilderness Road, etc.) led off into the Carolinas, West Virginia, Kentucky, and beyond. And importantly, all the roads carried people and goods back the other way as well.

Fortunately for fans of Southwest Virginia heritage and folk culture, people on the move are like blue jays at a feeder; they drop and scatter things that take root and grow. Early settlers and through-travelers of Old-World and African descent seeded Southwest Virginia with Old World and New World traditions—foodways, music, crafts, decorative arts, beliefs, trade skills, and much more. Many of these flourished to become the folkways we appreciate as local cultural treasures today.

A second addition to Southwest Virginia’s historical stew was the ability to harvest the region’s natural resources on a massive, sometimes brutal, scale. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the wagon largely dictated the speed of inland commerce. Mountain minerals (including iron, lead, salt, and copper) and timber moved at the pace of four-hooved beasts. Livestock were typically driven to market on foot. The use of flatboats and bateaux was limited to a few navigable Southwest Virginia waterways.

With a mid-19th century puff of steam everything changed. A railroad line out of Lynchburg ran as far as Bristol in 1856. The expansion of rail service and natural resource extraction progressed hand in hand. Two early rail freight mainstays that were hauled out of Southwest Virginia were lumber and livestock. In 1881 a Norfolk & Western Railway executive visited an outcropping of coal near Bluefield, and an explosion in coal mining, railroad building, and logging soon followed.

A third thought-provoking ingredient in Southwest Virginia’s transformation from backcountry to modern America was a book, or rather two books—the catalogs of Sears, Roebuck & Company and Montgomery Ward & Company. First published in the late 19th century, these so-called “wish books” combined with the Post Office’s rural free delivery system (finalized in 1902) to offer the end products of industrialization to every Southwest Virginian with a bit of cash, regardless of where he or she might live. Like their urban brethren, the rising rural middle class was ready to shop!

Retail commerce via home delivery affected the folkways of Southwest Virginia on many levels. Take music as one example. By the 20th century, Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs featured every major instrument associated with the region’s traditional music (except the dulcimer) at a modest price. By the mid-1920s record companies were using this catalog model to sell thousands of 78 rpm records to the nation’s newly identified rural music buyers, the so-called “hillbilly” and “race” markets. Clearly, opportunities for playing and hearing all types of music expanded dramatically.

Now listen closely to Southwest Virginia today. You will find references to the region’s roads and its natural resources, especially coal. And that buzzing tone in the background? That’s just an Amazon.com drone—on a new highway with new resource demands, new catalogs, and eventually new chapters on Southwest Virginia history.

Roddy Moore is the Director and Vaughan Webb the Assistant Director of the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum at Ferrum College.

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A Treasury of American Music is comprised of ancient ballads, hard-driving bluegrass and everything in between from 50 of Southwest Virginia’s best musicians Ralph Stanley, , , and 47 more. Available online at myswva.org/tcr/media-gallery/treasury.

Each year The Crooked Road produces the Live Concert Recordings of some of the best performances from the previous year’s Mountains of Music Homecoming. called the 2015 Live Concert Recordings “a must have” for roots music lovers. Tracks by New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters, Amythyst Kiah, Seldom Scene, Frank Newsome, Ralph Stanley II and more. Available online at myswva.org/tcr/media-gallery/ momh_liveconcert. 2016 Live Concert Recordings available soon.

A Century of Heritage Guitar Music is a two-disc compilation of current and historical guitar music from The Crooked Road including Mother Maybelle, Leslie Riddle, Wayne Henderson, Ralph Stanley II, and many more. Available soon at myswva.org/tcr/media-gallery/music.

Mountains of Music Homecoming T-shirts are available online at mtnsofmusic.com. To order call 276-492-2409 or visit thecrookedroad.org.

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No trip to The Crooked Road is complete without a visit to one or more of the Major Venues. Here’s what they have going on during the Homecoming.

Old Ways, New Look: Hand Skills in Transition Birthplace of Country Music Museum June 9 - 18, 10:00AM – 5:00PM, Sundays 1:00 – 5:00PM 520 Birthplace of Country Music Way Traditional crafts have always adapted to changes in needs, Bristol, VA 24201 technology, artistic tastes, and materials. This new exhibit (423) 573-1927 uses vintage and contemporary photos to illustrate these birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/museum changes and the continuing vitality of rural hand skills.

Hours: Crooked Road Ballad Concert with Aoife Clancy, Norman Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00AM - 6:00PM Kennedy, Bobby McMillon, John Roberts Sunday, 1:00 – 5:00PM June 9 (see listing description on page 58) Closed Mondays

Crooked Road Ballad Workshop with Archie Fisher, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Sheila Kay Adams Blue Ridge Music Center June 11 (see listing description on page 29) 701 Foothills Rd., Galax, VA 24333 (276) 236-5309 Shape Sing with the Old Fields Singers blueridgemusiccenter.org Saturday, June 17, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Birthplace of Country Music Museum, free Hours: Join members of the Old Fields Singers for a shape note Open daily 10:00AM – 5:00PM workshop and sing from 10:30-noon and 1:00-3:00. There will be a covered dish lunch from 12:00 - 1:00. The sing, Weekly Participatory Jams led by group leader and instructor Don Wiley, will use June 9 & 16 (12:00 - 4:00PM) - Friday Bluegrass Jam the Christian Harmony style of shape note singing. No June 11 & 18 (12:00 - 4:00PM) - Sunday Old Time Jam with experience required; all are welcome to listen and sing Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers along. For more information, contact [email protected]. Roots of American Music Exhibit June 10 - 18, 10:00AM - 5:00PM The Powers Family: Pioneers in Early Country Music. Special supplement to the Permanent Exhibits. Mid Day Mountain Music at BRMC June 8 - October 1. Museum admission applies. June 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 & 17 (12:00 - 4:00PM) Saturday, June 10th - Clarence & Bobby Roberts RADIO BRISTOL WBCM 100.1 Monday, June 12 - Band Radio Bristol is a network of channels that showcase Tuesday, June 13 - Willard Gayheart & Bobby Patterson the diversity of American roots music from the early Wednesday, June 14 - Bill & Maggie Anderson recording era to today. Tune in June 13, 2:00PM for Thursday, June 15 - Scott Freeman & Willard Gayheart Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas live interview during the Satuday, June 18 - Sugarloaf Mountain Band Mountains of Music Homecoming! More information at birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/radio The Quebe Sisters and Bill & The Belles Concert June 17, 7:00PM Blue Ridge Institute & Museum at Ferrum College The Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc 20 Museum Drive, Ferrum, VA 24088 3449 AP Carter Hwy., Hiltons, VA 24258 (540) 365-4412 (276) 594-0676 blueridgeinstitute.org carterfamilyfold.org Museum Gallery Hours: Saturday, June 10, 7:30 pm Open Monday – Saturday, 10:00AM – 5:00PM Saturday, June 17, 7:30 pm Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00PM The Museum & Cabin open at 6:00 pm on Saturdays. Farm Museum Hours: Admission to the Museum and Cabin is by donation. Open Saturdays (June 10 & 17), 10:00AM – 5:00PM Tickets are available at the door the evening of the shows. Sundays (June 11 & 18), 1:00 – 5:00PM

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Country Cabin II 6034 Kent Junction Rd., Norton, VA 24273 Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s www.appalachiantraditionsinc.com (276) 431-3338 or (276) 393-1147 Artisan Gateway One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon, VA 24210 Bluegrass Circle (276) 492-2400 June 10, 7:30PM myswva.org/heartwood

Appalachian Strings Hours: June 17, 7:30PM 9:00AM – 5:00PM Thursday: 9:00AM – 9:00PM Crooked Road Concert: Ralph Stanley II, Ricky Skaggs, Sunday: 10:00AM – 3:00PM Larry Sparks June 12 (see listing description on page 31) Artisan Demonstration with Margaret Rich Saturday, June 10, 10:00AM – 4:00PM Meet `Round the Mountain juried member, Margaret Rich, quilter and sewer. County Sales 117A W Main St., Floyd, VA 24091 Heartwood’s Sunday Brunch (540) 745-2001 Sunday, June 11, 10:00AM – 3:00PM countysales.com Experience a true Southern tradition— the farm fresh The world’s largest selection of old time and Sunday brunch at Heartwood. bluegrass music. Heartwood’s Open Jam Record Shop Hours: Thursday, June 15, 6:30 – 9:00PM Monday - Friday Open bluegrass and old time music jam and BBQ menu 9:00AM - 4:30PM from 5:00PM on!

Heartwood’s Sunday Brunch Sunday, June 18, 10:00AM – 3:00PM Floyd Country Store Experience a true Southern tradition— the farm fresh Sunday brunch at Heartwood 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 (540) 745-4563 Crooked Road Concert: Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas floydcountrystore.com June 13 (see listing description on page 60)

Hours: Monday - Thursday: 10:00AM – 5:00PM* Friday: 10:00AM – 10:30PM Saturday: 10:00AM – 6:00PM* Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Sunday: 11:00AM – 6:00PM* (*on show nights, open until 10:30 pm) Mountain Music Center 249 Clintwood Main Street, Clintwood, VA 24228 Friday Night Jamboree (276) 926-8550 June 9 & 16, 6:30 - 10:30PM ralphstanleymuseum.com

Americana Afternoon Museum Hours: June 10 & 17, 12:00 – 3:00PM Monday – Saturday, 10:00AM – 4:30PM

Old Time Music Jam June 11, 1:30PM Rex Theater Floyd Radio Show on the Road At the Moss Arts Center at 113 E Grayson St., Galax, VA 24333 June 11, 2:00PM (276) 236-0329 rextheatergalax.com Bluegrass Music Jam June 11, 4:00PM Blue Ridge Backroads Live Radio - Local/Regional Bluegrass Bands Old Time Country Dance Friday, June 16, 7:00 – 9:00PM with The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters June 17, 7:30PM

Crooked Road Concert: Mark O’Connor featuring the O’Connor Band CALLING IN ADVANCE is recommended June 15 (see listing description on page 61) to verify admissions fees and for event updates for all venues.

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Big Walker Lookout Clinch Mountain Floyd Contra Dance 8711 Stoney Fork Rd. Floyd Center for the Arts Wytheville, VA 24382 Music Fest 220 Parkway Lane S. (276) 663-4016 156 East Jackson Street, Floyd, VA 24091 www.scenicbeautyva.com Downtown Gate City (540) 489-1826 Gate City, VA 24251 floydcontradance.org Tom Roush (276) 386-3831 Friday, June 9, 2:00 – 4:00PM Saturday, June 10, 8:00 – 11:00PM Saturday, June 17, 11:30AM – 5:00PM The Time Flies with Gretchen Caldwell Davis Bradley 11:30AM: My New Favorites calling Saturday, June 10, 2:00 – 4:00PM 1:00PM: Jonah Riddle & Carolina Express 2:30 PM: Scott County JAMS Mike Gray Gospel 4:00 PM: Wilson Banjo Company Hillbilly Opry Sunday, June 11, 2:00 – 4:00PM 4925 State Park Rd Along with this event we will have local Dublin, VA 24084 Tom Roush Arts and Crafts vendors. (540) 674-5561 or (540) 267-6535 Friday, June 16, 2:00 - 4:00PM The day-time event is free. Saturday, June 17, 7:00 – 10:00PM James Stiltner & Friends Evening performances at the Carter Saturday, June 17, 2:00 - 4:00PM Family Fold - Tickets are available at the door. Patrick County Music Border Bash Association State Street Community Barn Dance Downtown Bristol VA/TN Chantilly Farm Rotary Building, Rotary Field (276) 644-9700 2697 Franklin Pike, Floyd, VA 24091 420 Woodland Dr., Stuart, VA 24171 (540) 353-5898 (276) 694-4232 Friday, June 16, 6:30PM - 11:00PM patrickcountymusicassociation.org Friday, June 9, 7:00 - 9:00PM Zephyr Lightning Bolts, The Shelton Brothers Chautauqua Festival Saturday, June 17, 5:00PM: Open Mic, 195 W Washington Street The Fiddle & The Plow 6:00PM: Show Wytheville, VA 24382 99 Coulson Church Rd. (276) 228-6855 Woodlawn, VA 24381 wythevillefestival.org (276) 236-3034 Pickin’ Porch June 16 - 24 June 9, 7:00PM 618 State Street June 16, 7:00PM Bristol, TN 37620 (423) 573-2262

Thursday, June 15, 7:00 – 9:00PM

Mountains of Music Homecoming Schedules for events subject to change; calling in advance is recommended to june 8-16, 2018 verify schedule.

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Whether you play or not, the region’s jam sessions are where the music is preserved and handed down from generation to generation. If you do play or sing and want to join in, you’ll be welcomed as part of a family that loves their music and you’ll go home with some new best friends – guaranteed.

Blue Ridge Music Center Allison Gap Jamboree Pulaski’s Old Time Super Jam 701 Foothills Rd., Galax, VA Allison Gap Community Center Bluegrass Jamboree Fries Community Center 24333 165 Lick Skillet Road 316 W. Main St. (276) 236-5309 Saltville, VA 24370 Pulaski Senior Center Fries, VA 24330 blueridgemusiccenter.org (276) 496-4514 106 N. Washington Avenue (276) 237-3886 or Pulaski, VA 24301 (276) 233-1104 Weekly Participatory Jams June 9 & 16, 6:30PM (540) 994-8631 June 9 & 16 (12:00 - 4:00PM) - Thursday, June 15, 6:00PM Friday Bluegrass Jam Thursday, June 15, 6:00 – 8:00PM June 11 (12:00 - 4:00PM) - Grundy Music Jam Sunday Old Time Jam with Fisher Campo Verde Weekly Old 1185 Plaza Dr. Peak Timber Rattlers Dinner and Mountain Grundy, VA 24614 Time Jam (276) 935-2551 Music Jam at Floyd Country Store Campo Verde Mexican Grill Tuesday, June 13, 6:00PM MacArthur Inn 165 Kinter Way 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA Pearisburg, VA 24134 117 MacArthur Lane 24091 540-921-0166 Narrows, VA 24124 (540) 745-4563 Friday Night Jam at (540) 726-7510 floydcountrystore.com Lambsburg Community Tuesday, June 13, 7:00 – 9:00PM Thursday, June 15, 6:30 – 9:00PM Friday Night Jamboree Dinner from 5:30PM June 9 & 16, 6:30 - 10:30PM Center Wednesday Night Old 130 Learning Lane Time Mountain Music Old Time Music Jam Lambsburg, VA 24351 Pickin’ in Pound June 11, 1:30PM (336) 648-2078 Jam Town Hall Building Bluegrass Music Jam June 9 & 16, 7:00 - 10:00PM 8422 N River Rd, Pound, VA Mountain Music Jam June 11, 4:00PM 24279 1908 Courthouse (276) 796-4536 107 E. Main St Americana Afternoon Lays Hardware Center Independence, VA 24348 June 17, 12:00 – 3:00PM Thursday, June 15, 7:00 – 10:00PM (276) 773-3711 for the Arts Jam Potluck Dinner Wednesday, June 14, Heartwood: Southwest Session 6:30 – 9:00PM Radford Fiddle and Virginia’s Artisan Lays Hardware 409 Front Street E. Banjo Jam Willis Gap Community Gateway Coeburn, VA 24230 (276) 219-4011 River City Grill Center Open Jam One Heartwood Circle, 103 Third Ave Abingdon, VA 24210 Thursday, June 15, 7:00 – 10:00PM Radford, VA 24141 Willis Gap Community Center (276) 492-2400 (540) 629-2130 144 The Hollow Road myswva.org/heartwood Ararat, VA 24053 Ma & Pa’s Restaurant Monday, June 12, 7:00 - 10:00PM (276) 251-8548 or 276-251 9906 Heartwood’s Open Jam 18928 U.S. Hwy 58 Thursday, June 15, 6:30 – 9:00PM June 9 & 16 Castlewood, VA 24224 Open bluegrass and old time Salty Dog Jam 7:00 – 10:00PM (every Friday (276) 762-7533 music jam night) Coon Club Bluegrass Jam Lake View Drive Allen Hicks’ Jam Monday. June 12, 7:00PM Saltville, VA 24370 (276) 496-7509 1844 Bethel Rd. Nickelsville, VA 24271 Market Square Jam Tuesday, June 13, 7:00PM (276) 479-2739 Market Square Park Schedules for jam 100 Draper Road, NW Friday, June 9, 7:00 - 10:00PM Smyth County Jam Blacksburg, VA sessions subject Friday, June 16, 7:00 - 10:00PM (540) 961-1199 Chilhowie Lions Club Building to change; calling 116 Industrial Park Road in advance is Wednesday, June 14, 8:00 – 10:00PM Chilhowie, VA 24319 Host Band for June 14: Indian Run (276) 496-5467 recommended to String Band verify schedule. Monday, June 12, 6:30PM

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The Stanley legacy mountain music creators and ambassadors

The most traditional-sounding of first-generation bluegrass music greats, Carter (1925-1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927-2016) were from Dickenson County, Virginia. In 1946, following military service in World War II, the Stanleys formed a band fronted by Carter on guitar and lead vocal and Ralph on banjo and tenor vocal. After debut recordings for the Johnson City, Tennessee- based Rich-R-Tone label in 1947, Carter and Ralph and the other members of their band the Clinch Mountain Boys (though the group was often credited as The Stanley Brothers) made nearly four hundred recordings for several national and regional labels. The band was based at WCYB radio in Bristol, Virginia/ Tennessee, but also worked out of other locales (including the Suwanee River Jamboree in ). The group performed a wide repertoire of songs, including such Carter Stanley-penned classics as “White Dove,” “The Fields Have Turned Brown,” and “I’ll Never Grow Tired of You.”

After Carter’s death in December 1966, Ralph continued performing and recording (frequently for the Virginia-based ) with a new version of the Clinch Mountain Boys, and this band’s “high lonesome sound” became popular at bluegrass festivals across the US. Musicians who played with Ralph Stanley during these years constituted a bluegrass and country music Who’s Who, including Curly Ray Cline, Melvin Goins, Larry Sparks, George Shuffler, Jack Cooke, Roy Lee Centers, , Ricky Skaggs, Charlie Sizemore, Ernie Thacker, and Ralph Stanley II.

In 1976 Ralph Stanley received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Lincoln Memorial University, which inspired his nickname “Dr. Ralph.” Continuing to tour and record until shortly before his death on June 23, 2016, Stanley received many awards, including a National Heritage Fellowship. Additionally, he was inducted into the and the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Honor. Stanley won the Best Male Country Vocal Performance Grammy Award for his a cappella performance of “,” featured on the soundtrack for the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? In 2004 the Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center—celebrating his life and music—was dedicated in Clintwood, Virginia; this would be among the first sites to be included on the music heritage trail that came to be known as The Crooked Road. Despite ample opportunities to pursue his career elsewhere, Stanley desired to live his life in his home place of Southwest Virginia, making Dr. Ralph the embodiment of what the Crooked Road celebrates—the connection between traditional artists and the culture and community they represent.

Ralph Stanley II, a talented guitar player, singer, and , continues his father’s legacy as leader of the Clinch Mountain Boys. A Grammy winner, Ralph II (as he is often called) has released six solo and a duet album recorded with his father. Nathan Stanley, Dr. Ralph’s grandson, also continues to carry on the family’s music legacy.

Ted Olson is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife, a study of Blue Ridge culture, and a Grammy Award-nominated music historian.

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appalachian cuisine RECIPES

In the last decade, popular perceptions of Appalachian foodways have risen to new heights. Appalachian people and places have displaced old notions of country-fried roadkill, the darlings and destinations of foodies the world over. Chefs like Sean Brock, Barry Maiden, Travis Milton, Susi Gott Séguret, Dale Hawkins, and William Dissen have moved to celebrity status. Acclaimed food writers Ronni Lundy and Sheri Castle speak passionately about Appalachian food and its storied history. Many Appalachian staples, until recently largely unknown outside the mountains, now grace the tables of acclaimed restaurants in and Chicago. Ramps or morels, anyone? We’ve always known how good our food is. Now others are taking notice, too.

As in other parts of Appalachia, Southwest Virginia’s foodways took shape along America’s first frontier. Our cuisine combines Native American traditions with those imported by major settlement groups, including the Scots-Irish, Germans, and English. Foraged foods (wild game, nuts, berries, wild greens, fish) joined cultivated crops (corn, beans, squash, apples, and pork) on the tables of Appalachian settlers. Corn and apples were—and still are—transformed into distilled spirits. Techniques for acquiring, preserving, and cooking took skill and creativity, as did stretching the harvest to feed many mouths during lean winter months. As food writer Sheri Castle notes, it’s easy for the French to create great sauces from butter, flour, and cream, but it took mountain ingenuity to transform pork grease into mouthwatering gravy!

As the industrial revolution brought large-scale timbering, mining, and railroads to the Appalachian region, workers from many places beyond the mountains made new contributions to regional foodways. Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, African-Americans, Welsh, and many other groups made cooking pots in coal and timber camps a mélange of cultures. Still later, as consumer culture reached into Southwest Virginia and the rest of Appalachia, our foodways began to incorporate new-fangled convenience foods, packaged foods, and other non-traditional ingredients. At a church dinner on the grounds, for example, a Jello-and-Cool-Whip salad became as much of a tradition as soup beans or fried chicken. These changes attest to the flexibility and innovative spirit of mountain cooks, who have always energetically combined the old with the new.

More and more native sons and daughters have become chefs and students of food thanks to the local food movement. As food writer Ronni Lundy observes, cooks in Appalachia are “as connected to the earth and their gardens as they are to the stove.” Their food, Lundi says, reflects “a life focused on fostering connection, as opposed to acquisition.” This notion may once have seemed quaint, but the rising popularity of regional foodways proves it to be true. Now, what Chef Dale Hawkins refers to as “New Appalachian Cuisine” ignites the imaginations of foodies everywhere. Native trout caviar. Pickled ramps as martini garnishes. Mountain-grown truffles. No doubt about it: Appalachian cuisine has become a force to be reckoned with. Welcome to Southwest Virginia, where you can taste the reasons why!

Dr. Jean Haskell and Dr. Katie Hoffman jointly run the consulting organization Bespoke Appalachia, dedicated to creating custom Appalachian experiences.

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CATFISH BRINE: PROCEDURE:

• 6 cups hot water • 2 fresh bay leaves 1. Combine all brine ingredients except pickle juice and hot sauce in • 2 tablespoons kosher salt • ½ tablespoon coriander a saucepan and bring to a boil, making sure the salt has all dissolved. • 1 cup dill pickle juice • ½ tablespoon mustard seed Simmer for 4 minutes. • 1 cup Crystal hot sauce • 3 cloves garlic • ½ cup orange juice • 2 sprigs thyme 2. Add pickle juice and hot sauce and stir to make sure all ingredients are properly combined. BREADING: 3. Strain brine into a container to remove all seeds and herbs.

• 2 ½ cups Anson Mills white • Salt and pepper to taste 4. Refrigerate brine until cool. cornmeal • 3 cups buttermilk 5. Place 4 or 5 8-oz wild catfish filets in cooled brine and leave there • 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour for 3 ½ hours, refrigerated. 6. While catfish is brining, set up a smoker with hickory chips and FOR FRYING: bring it to 190 degrees. • Large cast iron pan 7. Remove catfish from brine and place in smoker. Smoke for 30 • 3 cups canola oil minutes, just to impart smoky flavor. 8. Once catfish is smoked, remove from smoker and submerge in TO FINISH: buttermilk. • J Q Dickenson Ramp Salt 9. Mix together cornmeal and flour; season to taste. • Black pepper 10. Heat canola oil in cast iron pan to 325 degrees. 11. Bread each catfish filet in cornmeal mix and set aside. 12. Fry catfish in stages if necessary, about 4-5 minutes per side depending on thickness of the filet. 13. Arrange fried filets on a platter, and season with JQ Dickenson Ramp Salt and black pepper 14. Spoon tomato gravy over catfish and serve.

TOMATO GRAVY: PROCEDURE:

• ½ cup rendered country ham • 1 qt canned heirloom tomatoes, 1. Heat ham or bacon fat in a medium sauce pot on medium high heat. fat, or bacon fat if ham fat is preferably German Johnson Add onions and sweat until translucent. not available (commercially canned • ½ cup cornmeal tomatoes can be substituted if 2. Add cornmeal and flour to make a roux. Cook for 4 minutes, • ¼ cup all-purpose flour necessary), crushed constantly stirring. • 2 cups diced onion • 1 ½ tablespoon black pepper 3. Add tomato juice and coffee and continue to stir. • 1 bay leaf • 1 tablespoon kosher salt • 3 cups tomato juice • 1 tablespoon Crystal hot sauce 4. Add remaining ingredients and simmer for about 12-15 minutes on • ½ cup coffee medium heat, until all the flour taste has gone.

Travis Milton from Castlewood, Virginia, is now an acclaimed chef with a national profile. He has been featured in Garden & Gun, Southern Living and many other magazines. He is cooking for our June 17th Feastival in St. Paul.

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Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, and Wise Counties and the Cities of Bristol and Norton

Quicksilver. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver soon established themselves as a leading group in bluegrass while garnering widespread respect for the group’s exquisite vocal arrangements. Virginia Whirlwind is a band from Clintwood, Virginia. The group started from an occasional gathering of friends and is now a sought after band for festivals and concerts in the region.

DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, virginia whirlwind

7:00PM • $15 ADVANCE • $20 AFTER MAY 31 • $10 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Hosted by: Haysi Kiwanis Location: Dickenson County Fairgrounds (Kiwanis Park #1), Kiwanis Park Road, Haysi ADAM MCPEAK & MOUNTAIN An accomplished player, vocalist, and producer, Doyle Lawson is the leader of DOYLE LAWSON & THUNDER QUICKSILVER, an acclaimed bluegrass group with nearly forty albums to its credit. Multiple International Bluegrass 7:00PM • $10 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 Music Association (IBMA) Vocal Group of the Year award • $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) winners, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have won and been Hosted by: Breaks nominated for numerous Grammy, Dove, IBMA, Inspirational Location: Amphitheater, 627 Commission Circle, Breaks Country Music Association, and Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) awards. In 2012, For lodging and meal packages, call the Breaks Interstate Lawson was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Park at (276) 865-4413 or visit breakspark.com Hall of Fame. Lawson worked for several years as a member of groundbreaking progressive bluegrass group The When ADAM MCPEAK was barely into his teens, he Country Gentlemen before venturing out on his own to front launched his bluegrass band MOUNTAIN THUNDER, and

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the band is still going strong seven years later. Adam, a THE CENTER STAGE CLOGGERS have been dancing at talented mandolinist and a polished emcee, is a native of various regional events in and around their homebase of Wise Max Meadows; his father, Mike McPeak, a former member County, Virginia, since 1996. of the nationally popular McPeak Brothers band from the 1970s, plays guitar and sings for Mountain Thunder. Specializing in traditional bluegrass as well as bluegrass gospel, Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder have performed in major regional festivals (including RenoFest), at popular venues (such as Lays Hardware), and on television (Song of the Mountains). In 2015 the band released an album The Last Dirt Road, featuring some bluegrass standards alongside original compositions by Mike McPeak.

BALLADS WORKSHOP & concert: ARCHIE FISHER, SHEILA KAY ADAMS, Five Mile Mt. Road, Bluegrass ELIZABETH LAPRELLE Kinsmen, Billy Baker and the *Note: Workshop & Concert are at two different locations WORKSHOP Center Stage Cloggers 2:00PM - 4:00PM • NO COST BUT TICKET IS REQUIRED Hosted by: Birthplace of Country Music 7:00PM • $10 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum, • $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) 520 Birthplace of Country Music Way, Bristol Museum Director Jessica Turner will lead this workshop Hosted by: Town of Glade Spring exploring the ballad tradition and engage with the Location: The Point, 115 Town Square, Glade Spring performers as they demonstrate their approach to bringing ballads to life. FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN ROAD, a string band based in Boone Mill, Virginia, is fronted by Billy Hurt on fiddle, and includes Seth Boyd on banjo and guitar, and Brennen Ernst on guitar and CONCERT banjo. As a young fiddler, Billy was strongly influenced by the 7:00PM • $10 ADVANCED • $15 AFTER MAY 31 $7.50 legendary fiddler Clark Kessinger, and he now tours regularly CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) with Karl Shiflett. The band’s repertoire includes dance tunes, Hosted by: Emory and Henry College older country material, , and bluegrass. Location: McGlothlin Center for the Arts, 30481 Garnand Drive, Emory Having played traditional bluegrass music since 1971, THE , a native of Glasgow, Scotland, grew up BLUEGRASS KINSMEN was formed by brothers Shelby and ARCHIE FISHER Ebby Jewell. The band’s repertoire includes songs that run in a musical family, listening to opera and vaudeville as the gambit from traditional bluegrass to folk to gospel music well as traditional ballads and Gaelic songs. In the 1970s, as well as originals. Showcasing Ebby’s virtuosity on multiple Fisher recorded his acclaimed albums The Man With A instruments, especially the banjo, The Bluegrass Kinsmen is Rhyme and Will Ye Gang, Love. During the 1980s Fisher known for great harmony and skilled playing. released a popular live album with his touring partner Garnet Rogers. In 1996, Fisher’s next album Sunsets I’ve Galloped Into was spotlighted on National Public Radio. Fisher has Born in Pound, Virginia, BILLY BAKER was a child prodigy, playing banjo at four years of age and fiddle at six. He released two subsequent albums, Windward Away (2008) accompanied his banjo-playing father at local dances, and and A Silent Song (2015), combining performances of his by the early 1950s, Billy Baker was playing professionally own compositions with those of traditional Scottish songs. with local bands. Baker worked with as a member of the Bluegrass Boys and helped create the genre A seventh-generation ballad singer, storyteller, and of bluegrass music. claw-hammer banjo player, SHEILA KAY ADAMS was born and raised in the Sodom Laurel community of

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Madison County, North Carolina, an area renowned for A child prodigy on the mandolin, Skaggs joined the its tradition of unaccompanied singing of traditional Clinch Mountain Boys in 1971. After backing up Dr. Ralph southern Appalachian ballads. Adams has also recorded on numerous classic recordings, Skaggs left the Clinch several albums of ballads, songs and stories, and she Mountain Boys by 1975, joining J. D. Crowe’s band, The appeared in the movies Last of the Mohicans (1992) New South, and beginning his foray into progressive and Songcatcher (2000). In recent years she has received bluegrass. The recipient of numerous Grammy and IBMA the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Awards, Skaggs in recent years has dedicated himself to the Fellowship and the North Carolina Heritage Award. repertoire and styles associated with traditional bluegrass.

ELIZABETH LAPRELLE is one of the leading interpreters In 1964 Larry Sparks joined The Stanley Brothers at of traditional Appalachian balladry, though her repertoire the age of 17. As a vocalist and guitarist for the Clinch also includes a wide range of traditional and contemporary Mountain Boys, Sparks recorded several classic bluegrass songs. Raised in Rural Retreat, Virginia, LaPrelle was songs, including “Sharecropper’s Son” and “I Only inspired by Sheila Kay Adams and Ginny Hawker to Exist.” In 1969, Sparks left Dr. Ralph’s band to form his interpret the Appalachian ballad tradition. In addition to own group, the Lonesome Ramblers. Sparks was named performing at festivals and concerts all over the US and Male Vocalist of the Year by the International Bluegrass abroad, LaPrelle has toured with the National Council for Music Association in 2004 and 2005, and in 2015 he was the Traditional Arts, taught workshops at Augusta Heritage inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. Center and Centrum Voice Works. LaPrelle has released three albums of traditional music. Unlike his famous banjo-playing father, Ralph Stanley II embraced the guitar, inspired by the legacy of his guitar-playing uncle, Carter Stanley. Joining his father’s band in 1995 as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, Ralph II subsequently won many fans through his sincere commitment to traditional bluegrass. In 2016, his father bestowed upon him the honor of continuing to use the family band-name, and now the son tours as Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys.

A TRIBUTE TO THE STANLEY BROTHERS: RICKY SKAGGS, LARRY SPARKS, RALPH STANLEY II

5:00PM DISCUSSION • 7:30PM CONCERT • $20 ADVANCE • $25 AFTER MAY 31 • $12.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) RONNIE RENO and reno tradition Hosted by: Country Cabin Location: 6034 Kent Junction Rd., Norton 5:00 PM - FILM DISCUSSION 7:00 PM • $10 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 In this special Mountains of Music Homecoming concert, • $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) three leading bluegrass musicians—RICKY SKAGGS, Hosted by: Town of Pennington Gap LARRY SPARKS, and RALPH STANLEY II—celebrate the Location: Lee Theatre, 41676 W. Morgan Ave., Pennington Gap legacy of The Stanley Brothers (Carter and Ralph Stanley), natives of Clintwood, Virginia, and widely deemed among At 5:00pm, Ronnie Reno will present and discuss historic the most important bluegrass groups since the genre’s film footage of his father, . emergence in the mid-1940s. RONNIE RENO began his career in music as a boy, At 5:00PM, Stanley Brothers historian Gary Reid will lead accompanying his father, banjo legend Don Reno, and the a videorecorded discussion with former and current Clinch elder Reno’s duo partner, Red Smiley. In 1955 “Little Ronnie Mountain Boys. Admission is free. Reno” stood on a milk carton to reach the microphone on the stage of The Old Dominion Barn Dance. In 1993, Ronnie

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began hosting “Reno’s Old Time Music Festival,” which continues to be aired in millions of households over the RFD TV channel. The International Bluegrass Music Association has honored Reno with the Broadcaster of the Year Award.

The Crooked Road’s Old-Time ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS Music & Dance Spectacular

7:30PM • $15 ADVANCE • $20 AFTER MAY 31 7:00PM • $10 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 $10 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) • $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Hosted by: Heartwood Hosted by: Natural Tunnel State Park Location: One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon Location: Natural Tunnel State Park Amphitheater, 1420 Natural Tunnel Pkway, Duffield Master Scottish fiddlerALASDAIR FRASER has been a major force behind the resurgence of traditional The Crooked Road region is a current-day hotbed of the many Scottish fiddling in his homeland and the U.S., inspiring forms of old time music, and this rousing concert celebrates legions of listeners and learners through his recordings, those forms by bringing together many of the finest old time annual fiddle camps, and concerts. His repertoire spans music and dance masters from all across Southwest Virginia. several centuries of Scottish music and includes his own These individual artists are members of some of the region’s compositions, combining profound understanding of the most popular performing groups and are being brought Scottish tradition with cutting-edge musical explorations. together just for the Homecoming to demonstrate how vibrant Fraser performs in concert as a soloist and with skilled the old time music traditions of The Crooked Road are. cellist NATALIE HAAS. Rich Kirby and Elizabeth LaPrelle, two of the most respected Catch Alasdair and Natalie’s interview on Radio ballad singers in the Crooked Road region today, will bring Bristol at 2:00PM at the Birthplace of Country Music this early and important tradition to life. Kirby, from Scott Museum. County, both plays the banjo and sings traditional ballads he learned from his grandmother, the respected ballad singer Addie Graham. Wythe County native LaPrelle is perhaps the best-known singer of Appalachian ballads of her generation and has performed for public radio’s flagship programs and Mountain Stage.

Award-winning fiddler Eddie Bond and banjo player Debbie Yates will demonstrate the old fiddle and banjo duet styles on some haunting tunes from the tradition.

Eddie Bond, Rich Kirby, Elizabeth LaPrelle, and Mac Traynham will play a selection of Carter Family classics in the old-time style that the Carters made famous in their first recordings in Bristol 90 years ago.

Enjoy a spirited but all-in-good-fun old time banjo contest between crackerjack players Debbie Yates, Tyler Hughes, Jared Boyd, Mac Traynham, Rich Kirby, and Julie Shepherd Powell. The audience-selected winner gets bragging rights.

Bassist Debbie Bramer will lay down a great groove for flatfoot dancing from the likes of Julie Shepherd Powell,

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scottish culture scottish and scots-irish music along the crooked road

A majority of the early settlers on the Appalachian frontier were immigrants from Lowland Scotland or from Northern Ireland (the Scots-Irish, who descended primarily from Lowland Scots). Those two groups were bound by a common Scottish heritage, and Scottish traditions profoundly influenced Appalachian culture—particularly the music. Today, echoes of Scottish culture and identity reverberate in the music heard and in the customs observed along the Crooked Road.

The term Scots-Irish refers to the Protestant people who in the late 16th century crossed the Irish Sea from Lowland Scotland to settle in Ulster (the section of Ireland that today is known as Northern Ireland, part of the ). Promised better lives as tenant farmers on large agricultural estates owned by English landlords, these Scots-Irish people (so-called because while living in Ireland they absorbed some cultural influences from their Irish Catholic neighbors) by the mid-18th Century had grown disgruntled at their economic, political, and religious marginalization. As a result, an estimated 250,000 of them emigrated to the New World and many of these settled in Appalachia. Scots-Irish influences along the Crooked Road can still be heard today in the characteristic regional dialect, the variety of local customs, and in the music.

Because the fiddle was ideal for accompanying dances and could be easily carried, Scottish and Scots-Irish settlers transported the instrument to Appalachia in the 18th century. A number of Scottish fiddle tunes soon became popular across Appalachia, including “Mrs. McLeod’s Reel” (which became known as “Hop High Ladies”) and “Lord McDonald’s Reel” (later called “Leather Britches”). Those settlers generally did not bring the iconic Scottish bagpipes to the New World because that instrument had been banned in Scotland after that country’s 1746 loss to the English military at the Battle of Culloden.

Many traditional ballads sung in Appalachia from the 18th century through the present-day, including “ Laddie,” “The Butcher Boy,” and “,” originated in Lowland Scotland and were brought to the New World by immigrants. In ballad scholar Thomas Burton’s assessment, while England was historically cited as being the primary contributor of ballads to the Appalachian repertoire, Scotland was equally important as a wellspring of balladry.

A number of folk-revivalist musicians active in The Crooked Road area have specialized in exploring the influences of Scottish and Scots-Irish music (and other aspects of culture) on Appalachia. Jack Beck, a native of Scotland, who lives in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is noted for his powerful performances of the Scottish ballad and song heritage. Other Crooked Road-area music acts known for their distinctive interpretations of Scottish and Scots-Irish music include The Celtibillies, Sigean, Fire in the Kitchen, and Sandra Parker.

Ted Olson is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife, a study of Blue Ridge culture, and a Grammy Award-nominated music historian.

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Elizabeth LaPrelle, Eddie Bond, and Debbie Bramer as they take the energy level through the roof.

By the time this concert ends, you will have seen some of the best old time music in the world and will go home asking why every day can’t be as joyful as a Crooked Road Old Time Music and Dance Spectacular.

The Crooked Road’s Old-Time Music & Dance Spectacular

7:00PM • $10 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 • $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Hosted by: Town of Damascus Location: The Rock School, 505 S. Shady Ave., Damascus

The Crooked Road region is a current-day hotbed of the many forms of old time music, and this rousing concert celebrates those forms by bringing together many of the finest old time music and dance masters from all across Southwest Virginia. These individual artists are members of some of the region’s most popular performing groups and are being brought together just for the Homecoming to demonstrate how vibrant Jesse Mcreynolds & the the old time music traditions of The Crooked Road are.

Corbin Hayslett, Rich Kirby and Elizabeth LaPrelle, three of the virginia boys most respected ballad singers in the Crooked Road region today, will bring this early and important tradition to life. Kirby, from 5:00PM FILM DISCUSSION Scott County, both plays the banjo and sings traditional ballads 7:00PM • $12 ADVANCE • $18 AFTER MAY 31 he learned from his grandmother, the respected ballad singer • $9 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Addie Graham. Southwest Virginia-native Corbin Hayslett is a Hosted by: Lays Hardware Center for the Arts talented performer of a range of classic Appalachian story-songs. Location: 409 East Front St., Coeburn Rural Retreat native La Prelle is perhaps the best-known singer of

Appalachian ballads of her generation and has been a featured At 5:00 pm, Jesse McReynolds will present and discuss performer on public radio’s flagship programs A Prairie Home historic film footage of early Jim & Jesse shows. Companion and Mountain Stage. In the 68th year of his legendary career, JESSE Award winning fiddler Adrian Powell and clawhammer banjo is renowned for being part of the pioneering MCREYNOLDS player Mac Traynham will demonstrate the old fiddle and banjo bluegrass duo Jim and Jesse and also for his influential duet styles on some haunting tunes from the tradition. mandolin style. Born and raised near Coeburn, Virginia, in the small community of Carfax, Jesse and his older Eddie Bond, Rich Kirby, Elizabeth LaPrelle, and Mac Traynham brother Jim grew up surrounded by traditional music. will play a selection of Carter Family classics in the old-time Their grandfather Charlie McReynolds was part of the Bull style that the Carters made famous when they made their first Mountain Moonshiners string band that recorded at the 1927 recordings in Bristol 90 years ago. Bristol Sessions. In addition to appearing on live radio and television shows, Jim & Jesse joined the Grand Ole Opry Enjoy a spirited but all-in-good-fun old time banjo contest on March 2, 1964. Early in their career, Jesse developed a between crackerjack players Debbie Yates, Tyler Hughes, “McReynolds style” technique on the mandolin, combining Jared Boyd, Mac Traynham, Rich Kirby, Corbin Hayslett, and cross-picking and split-string playing to permit fast Julie Shepherd Powell. The audience-selected winner gets execution of intricate melodic patterns. Jim died in 2002, bragging rights. and Jesse has carried on the Jim & Jesse tradition, playing throughout the world with a new version of the Virginia Bassist Donna Correll will lay down a great groove for flatfoot Boys. Jesse’s grandson Garrett McReynolds took Jim’s place dancing from the likes of Julie Shepherd Powell, Elizabeth in the band on guitar and tenor vocals. LaPrelle, and Eddie Bond as they generate enough old time energy to power a small city.

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Dori Freeman Travis Milton Ronni Lundy Photo by Pableaux Johnson Pableaux by Photo

Feastival at st. paul: History, heritage and revitalization

5:00PM • $95 Hosted by: Town of St. Paul and St. Paul Main Street Sponsored by: Blue Ridge Beverage, Food City, Virginia Tourism Corporation Craft Sponsor: Town of St. Paul Locations: Sugar Hill Brewery (16622 Broad St., St Paul), Western Front Hotel (3025 Fourth St., St. Paul) newest book Victuals: An Appalachian Journey with Recipes As they say on their town website, “there’s always (Clarkson Potter 2016) has been lauded by Epicurious.com, something happening in St. Paul.” That’s why it’s the perfect Saveur, and Garden & Gun, to name just a few. “We can location for a Mountains of Music Homecoming Feastival. celebrate Appalachian culture with restaurants, ecotourism, In St. Paul, you’ll see how small Appalachian towns can and production of foods that can be sold other places,” says become destinations that will please everyone—from Ronni, “but also support families that want to stay in region. gourmets to historians to outdoor enthusiasts. We’ll start That’s why Travis’ work is so important—why I included him with libations at the Sugar Hill Brewery, a place where St. in my book—he is bringing the right kind of attention to us Paul neighbors gather to dine, visit, and sample the newest by honoring our traditions and pushing them forward.” brew. ‘Round the Mountain potter Hannah Martin will talk about our region’s artisan network and the take-home After dinner, you’ll be treated to a concert by Dori Freeman, keepsakes she’s designed especially for this Feastival. a young singer/songwriter from near Galax whose newest recording was among Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Country and Nationally acclaimed chef Travis Milton has cooked for Americana Albums of 2016. Dori’s father and grandfather the James Beard Foundation and the Southern Foodways are both renowned traditional musicians, so she comes by Alliance. At this Feastival, he’ll cook for you – preparing her talents honestly. Accompanied by her husband, Nick your dinner farm-to-table style with local bounty. We’ll Falk, Dori will serve up some of the best music Southwest dine in front of the beautiful, soon-to-open Western Front Virginia has to offer. Hotel. A Castlewood native, Travis leads the movement to showcase Appalachia’s food traditions by presenting them You’ll feel a sense of place at this Feastival. We’ll celebrate all with his own imaginative twists. As he says, “The menu will the reasons why Ronni Lundy writes about the region, why be humble in heritage, but innovative, especially the entrée. Travis Milton moved back, and why Dori Freeman shows no I’ll use what we have locally and what comes from our signs of leaving (except to tour, of course). As Travis puts it, tradition, but presented in a new light. There will probably “I am insanely blessed to be able to do this half a mile from be my version of apple stack cake for dessert; that’s my where I grew up! St. Paul thinks outside the box, doing amazing genealogy, my childhood, my cultural heritage on a plate.” things with what they’ve got. I want to showcase that part of Appalachia—tell the story of Castlewood, Wise, and St. Paul.” Award-winning food writer Ronni Lundy will serve as culinary interpreter and storyteller for the evening. Her We invite you to share the food, the artistry, and the stories.

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Community Screening of The Ralph Stanley Story 1:00PM • FREE A viewing of the 2000 Appalshop Inc. documentary film about bluegrass legend, Dr. Ralph Stanley, called The Ralph Stanley Story. Before the viewing, a door prize giveaway of items from the Ralph Stanley Museum including a t-shirt, music CD, and a copy of the book, : My Life and Times, by Ralph Stanley.

Haysi Community Library 157 O’Quinn Street Haysi, VA 24256 [email protected] 276-865-4851 Hicks Friday Night Jam 7:00PM • DONATIONS Old time, bluegrass, traditional & gospel music.

Hicks Friday Night Jam 1844 Bethel Rd. Nickelsville, VA 24271 [email protected] 276-479-2739 Musical Trio & Community Picnic 4:30PM • $5 PER PERSON, CASH ONLY The Mendota Community Association will host a musical event and community picnic at the Mendota Library. The musical trio, “Fire in the Kitchen,” will entertain with their unique blend of Appalachian and . Meal service begins at 4:30 pm with music to follow at 6:00 pm

Mendota Library 2562 Mendota Road Mendota, VA 24270 [email protected] 276-492-2013 Pioneer Art League Exhibit FRIDAY, JUNE 9: 8:30AM - 5:00PM • FREE Symbol key Display of original artwork by the Pioneer Art League of Dickenson County. The League employs a variety of mediums such as oils, acrylics, and watercolors to paint landscapes, nature scenes, and other items of interest. The League paints on several different types of surfaces, which include canvas, wood, rocks, and gourds.

Jonnie B. Deel Memorial Library 198 Chase Street Clintwood, VA 24228 [email protected] 276-926-6617

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“Lunch on the Lawn” Celtic Heritage -- Scots-Irish 12:00PM • FREE, OPTIONAL $6 BOXED Roots -- Music and Stories LUNCH (call to preorder by 10:00AM 6/8) SAT JUNE 10 “Lunch on the Lawn” is a free event 1:00PM – 4:00PM • FREE showcasing regional culture and featuring Discussion and exploration of the Celtic/ local music performers each week under the Appalachian Quilting Scot/Irish influence in music, art and culture Victorian Arbor. Guests can bring or order of the Appalachian region. Lecture and their lunch and enjoy it under the shade of 10:00AM – 4:00PM • FREE demonstration. ash trees. The museum will be open; exhibits An array of quilts will be on display explore the pioneer era, Victorian period, showcasing the craft of quilting. coal boom and bust, traditional mountain Glade Spring Branch Washington County music, and other topics related to Southwest Library Virginia history and culture. Regular Lee County Public Library Glade Spring Library admission fees apply. 539 Joslyn Avenue Town Square Pennington Gap, VA 24277 Glade Spring, Va 24340 [email protected] [email protected] Southwest Virginia Museum Historical 276-546-1141 276-429-5626 State Park 10 West First Street North Best Friend Festival Big stone Gap, VA 24219 Honaker Heritage Day [email protected] VARIOUS • FREE 9:00AM – 4:00PM • FREE, DONATIONS 276-523-1322 The 31st Best Friend Festival is a City of Norton event that offers everyone a chance ACCEPTED to meet with old friends and make new ones, The Honaker Heritage Center and Museum 4 Hands 1 Heart-- Ed and Mary while enjoying good food, music, contests, will host “Honaker Heritage Day – A Day and a variety of entertainment and of course of Music, Craft and Food in an Early 20th Scheier, Glade Spring Potters FUN! Event activities include free lunch in Century Historic Downtown”. Dale Jett and 7:00PM • FREE the park day, senior citizen’s day, the Friends Hello Stranger, a national traditional music Documentary film and discussion of 8 and Farmers Market, karaoke, kid’s night, treasure, along with the Honaker FFA Band decades-long love story of two potters Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, and annual 5k. will provide music, Civil War re-enactors whose works are now in major museums and will be on site and local artisans will be collections around the world. From a log demonstrating their traditional craft skills cabin in Glade Spring Virginia they opened Best Friend Festival in Honaker’s National Historic Commercial Hillcrock Pottery where they practiced and City of Norton District. Food available from food vendors perfected their skills. [email protected] and local restaurants. 276-679-0961

Town Square Center for the Arts Honaker Heritage Center 214 Town Square Celebrating Carter Fold 386 Redbud Highway Glade Spring, VA 24340 2:00PM • FREE Honaker, VA racheldenham41@gmail,.com Come to a showing of the movie “The [email protected] 276-356-5183 Winding Stream”, a documentary on the 276-991-9158 Carter family. Also, an exhibit will display Full Moon Hike items on loan from the Carter Fold museum. Harp Song: Celtic Traditional 8:30PM • FREE Ballads Be a part of a unique Natural Tunnel Scott County Public Library 4:00PM – 5:00PM • FREE experience and hike to the Gazebo to see 297 West Jackson Street Experience the magic of the Celtic harp with the moon rise. Park guides will talk about the Gate City, VA 24251 local musician Sandra Parker. night life and share stories about the moon. [email protected] The 1.2 mile round trip hike is on a semi- 276-386-3302 moderate trail with a dirt/grass base. Sturdy hiking shoes required along with headlamps Hayters Gap Library 7720 Hayters Gap Road or flashlights for the return back. Dress for Abingdon, VA 24210 the weather; maybe a little breezy at the Celebrations of Mountain Music [email protected] Gazebo. 5:00PM – GATES OPEN; 6:00 PM SHOW • $5 An outdoor concert with a local craft beer 276-492-2013 garden located in the Trail of the Lonesome Natural Tunnel State Park – Blockhouse Pine Outdoor Drama amphitheater. Hayters Gap Jamboree Parking Lot 2:00PM – 4:00PM • FREE 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway The Hayters Gap Library, a branch of the Duffield, VA 24244 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Washington County Public Library, will host a [email protected] Drama Amphitheater good old-fashioned jam session. Come share 276-940-2674 518 Clinton Ave E Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 your talents, learn from others, or just come [email protected] to enjoy the music! Quilt Show 276-523-2303 10:00AM – 4:00PM • FREE Quilts from our region crafted by local Hayters Gap Library artisans will be on display with several of 7720 Hayters Gap Road the artisans on site to discuss patterns, Abingdon, VA 24210 techniques, fabrics and styles. [email protected] Zone Reference 276-492-2013

Town Square Center for the Arts east 214 Town Square west central Glade Spring VA 24340 [email protected] 276-608-4489

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an outdoor paradisE

From the Breaks Canyon of Dickenson County to the mighty Palisades overlooking the New River, Southwest Virginia offers a wealth of recreational opportunities.

Grayson Highlands State Park, courtesy of Virginia Tourism It’s a land of waterfalls. Check out the Cascades, dropping 66 feet in the Jefferson National Forest near Pembroke in Giles County. Or walk along the many Falls of Little Stony in Scott County, another national forest treasure, near Coeburn. You’ll find more falls along The Crooked Road including the Peach Bottom Falls, dropping about 100 feet near Independence; and the Straight Branch Falls, just east of Damascus, along U.S. Highway 58.

Our national parks are among the most famous in the Eastern United States. These include the , linking Mabry Mill to the Blue Ridge Music Center and the tri-state National Historical Park, where you can hike along the Kentucky-Virginia border.

The is also located along the Kentucky-Virginia border. It contains a canyon with wild rapids suitable for whitewater rafting when water is released from the John W. Flannagan Reservoir on weekends in October. Or you can simply take a hike on rocky trails; catch some bream in Laurel Lake; or make a splash at the park’s kid- friendly water park.

Want to fish? Try the stocked trout at the Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area near Saltville. Or check out the fabulous smallmouth , courtesy of Virginia Tourism bass fishing on the North Fork of the Holston River, a historic watercourse linking Bland County to the hills and hollers once inhabited by the Carter Family near Hiltons. You can also float across McCoy Falls near Blacksburg on the New River. Or take off on a kayak with a fishing pole on the Clinch River at Castlewood, St. Paul and Dungannon.

All kinds of state parks dot the region. You can watch a train pass through Natural Tunnel State Park near Duffield. Or tickle your toes in the sands of the at Smith Mountain Lake State Park; State Park; ; and Hungry Mother State Park. You can also hike among the wild ponies inside Grayson Highlands State Park along the and discover the adjacent Mount Rogers , home to the tallest Wilderness Road State Park, courtesy of Department of peak in Virginia: the 5,729-foot-high Mount Rogers. Conservation and Recreation

Near Mount Rogers, you’ll also find Whitetop Mountain, where you can drive a mile in the sky at the site of a 1930s-era music festival that once attracted 20,000 people to see First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Just below, look for the replica of the Whitetop Station, standing alongside the Virginia Creeper Trail. That is a 34-mile-long rails-to-trails conversion that links the highlands of Grayson County to the quaint town of Abingdon, home of Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Gateway.

Joe Tennis is the author of Along Virginia’s Route 58: True Tales from Beach to Bluegrass and Virginia Rail Trails: Crossing the Commonwealth, both published by The History Press. Canoeing in Natural Tunnel State Park

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June Militia Muster: Martin’s Wild Cave Tour: Natural Tunnel Longhunters Kayak Trip 9:00AM • $25 PER PERSON Station Fort at Wilderness Road Caverns Spend your day floating 9 miles down the State Park 2:00PM • $10 PER PERSON. FOR A GROUP clean Clinch River. View the Scott County OF EIGHT OR MORE $7 PER PERSON countryside from a kayak as you pass over 9:00AM – 5:00PM • $3/CAR Have you ever wondered what lies under limestone shoals. At the half-way point, cool off Wilderness Road State Parks’ Martin’s Station your feet? Experience unique rock formations in the river. Cruise down a class II rapid, then fort replica will host a militia muster. In such as stalactites and stalagmites and walk guides can show you how to “surf” the rapid. historical retrospect, these musters called on the rim of a waterfall. We will visit, but not Pre-registration is required. Ages 13 and up. For citizen soldiers to take up arms and rally to disturb, the homes of cave critters such as your comfort and safety appropriate footwear an outpost to either be trained, or to hone salamanders, crickets, and snails. Equipment is required, no flip-flops, crocs, or sandals. the skills. Volunteers from several states will be provided. Pre-registration required. converge on Martin’s Station for these militia Ages 8 and up. For your comfort and safety musters where instead of training, they appropriate pants and close toe shoes provide in-depth historical interpretation/ Natural Tunnel State Park required. Guest must use park gear. 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway demonstrations on various 18th century Duffield, VA 24244 subjects including: open hearth cooking, [email protected] artillery drills, brain tanning, spinning, Natural Tunnel State Park 276-940-1643 weaving, Native American culture, battle re- 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway enactments and more. Duffield, VA 24244 [email protected] Sunday on the Clinch River - 276-940-1643 Wilderness Road State Park Canoes, Cuisine, Culture! 8051 Wilderness Road 11:00AM – 3:00PM • FREE Ewing, VA 24248 A casual Sunday worship service on the banks [email protected] of the Clinch River brought to you by Garden 276-445-3065 sun JUNE 11 of Hope, a small church of SWVA! Enjoy some old time mountain gospel music, authentic mountain cooking, and FREE access and use Kayak the Clinch River: Boones Run of our canoes and kayaks! A guided tour on JUNE 10 & JUNE 18 – 9:00AM • $15 PER Best Friend Festival a section of the Clinch River will be provided PERSON VARIOUS • FREE after dinner! Shorts, t-shirts, blue jeans, and Float in the path of early Native Americans See listing description under June 10. empty stomach required! Stay all day, enjoy and settlers as you travel 7 miles down the the fun, and talking to the locals. Clinch River. Listen for cackling Kingfishers, the splash of turtles and view limestone Canoe The Clinch shoals along your journey. Enjoy a short 3:00PM • $15 PER PERSON OR FOR GROUPS Slates Farm refreshing swim in the river and traverse your OF 10 OR MORE $12 PER PERSON Rt. 672 Stump Town Rd. way through a class II rapid. Once through try Float 5.5 miles down the Clinch River and see Honaker, VA 24260 to surf the rapid. Pre-registration is required. aquatic life from alligator gar to fresh water [email protected] Ages 13 and up. For your comfort and safety mussels. Watch great Blue Herons fly by and 276-730-4534 appropriate footwear is required. turtles sunning themselves, cool off in the river with a swim! No experience needed, paddling is required and guests may get wet. Natural Tunnel State Park Pre-registration required. Age 6 and up. Mon JUNE 12 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Duffield, VA 24244 [email protected] Natural Tunnel State Park 276-940-2674 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Best Friend Festival Duffield, VA 24244 VARIOUS • FREE [email protected] See listing description under June 10. Pioneer Art League Exhibit 276-940-1643 10:00AM - 2:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Bluegrass Jam CrimeSong: True Crime Stories 7:00PM • FREE from Southern Murder Ballads Bluegrass Jam every Monday. Everyone is Quilt Show welcomed out, no cover charge, to enjoy our 10:00AM – 4:00PM • FREE 3:00PM • FREE local community getting together to play some See listing description under June 9. University of Kentucky law professor and bluegrass, heart of our area. During the summer author, Richard H. Underwood, explores the our stage and dance floor is open to the cool real-life events behind such ballads as “Tom summer breeze! This is a way the locals can get JAM SESSION Dooley” and “Frankie and Johnny.” Book together and play some blue grass music, the signing to follow the program. heart of our area. It’s a way for everyone to enjoy VISUAL OR PERFORMING ARTS what and who our local community has to offer. Main (Abingdon) Library AGRITOURISM 205 Oak Hill St. Ma & Pa’s Restaurant Abingdon, VA 24210 18928 Hwy 58 PARTICIPATORY EVENT [email protected] Castlewood, VA 24224 276-492-2013 [email protected] LEARNING OPPORTUNITY 276-762-7533 OUTDOOR EVENT June Militia Muster: Martin’s Station Fort at Wilderness Road Pioneer Art League Exhibit CULTURAL FOOD EVENT 8:30AM - 5:00PM • FREE State Park See listing description under June 9. COMMUNITY HOSTED CONCERT 9:00AM – 5:00PM • $3/CAR See listing description under June 10.

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Quilting Bee Find Your Scots-Irish Roots Find Your Scots-Irish Roots 1:00PM • FREE 5:00PM • FREE, PRE-REGISTRATION 1:00PM • FREE, PRE-REGISTRATION Join in with the Wise Library Quilting Group REQUIRED REQUIRED to learn about Appalachian quilting patterns The Washington County Public Library will The Washington County Public Library will and customs. Quilting demonstrations host a genealogy workshop at the Damascus host a genealogy workshop at the Mendota and a hands-on workshop will give you an Branch Library for those beginning or Library designed for those beginning or opportunity to practice your quilting skills. continuing their search for their Scottish or continuing their search for their Scottish or Irish ancestors. Pre-registration is required. Irish ancestors. Preregistration is required. Online registration is available at www.wcpl. Online registration is available at www.wcpl.net Wise County Public Library net or call the library at 276-492-2013. or call the library at 276-492-2013. 124 Library Road, SW, Wise, VA 24293 [email protected] Damascus Library Mendota Library 276-328-8061 310 Water Street 2562 Mendota Road Damascus, VA 24236 Mendota, VA 24270 [email protected] [email protected] 276-492-2013 276-492-2013 TUEs JUNE 13 Pioneer Art League Exhibit Music and a Meal 11:30AM - 8:00PM • FREE 5:30PM • FREE, DONATIONS ACCEPTED See listing description under June 9. Event with old time gospel selections that Appalachian Woodcarving those attending are invited to participate and Workshop join in with the singing as they encouraged Wine Tasting & Live Music by Adam at the old camp meetings. This year will 6:00 – 8:00PM • FREE feature some of our local talent as we share The regional group Appalachian Woodcarvers Bolt and the 2-4D 3 the music and meal with those attending. No will host a live demonstration of their craft 7:00PM • FREE admission price, donations will be accepted. and display works in various stages of Enjoy live music, food, and wine at Vincent’s completion. The carvers will be available Vineyard in Lebanon. The band will play at to answer questions and offer guidance for 7:00 PM with a mix of country / honky tonk First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall anyone interested in learning more about this style music. Wine tastings all day, beginning 307 E Jackson St. traditional art. at 11:00 AM and lasting throughout the event. Gate City, VA 24251 Food and wine will also be available for [email protected] purchase. 276-393-4177 C Bascom Slemp Memorial Library 11 Proctor St N Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 Vincent’s Vineyard [email protected] 2313 East Main St Thur JUNE 15 276-523-1334 Lebanon, VA 24266 [email protected] Best Friend Festival 276-889-2505 VARIOUS • FREE Best Friend Festival See listing description under June 10. VARIOUS • FREE wed JUNE 14 See listing description under June 10. Experience Russell County 9:00AM • $20 Books & Brews Join this rare guided hike to Beartown Best Friend Festival 6:00PM • FREE Join the Washington County Public Library’s Mountain in Russell County, Virginia, brought VARIOUS • FREE Books & Brews book club for a lively to you by Russell County Tourism, the Russell See listing description under June 10. County Health & Fitness Center, and Stuart discussion of “CrimeSong: True Crime Stories Land & Cattle Company. Beartown is part from Southern Murder Ballads” held at the of the Clinch Mountain range, and is the Canorkel Wolf Hills Brewing Company. 7th highest summit in Virginia. Hikers will meet at the Russell County Health & Fitness 10:00AM • $15 PER PERSON OR FOR A Center and will carpool from there to the trail GROUP OF 10 OR MORE $12 PER PERSON. Wolf Hills Brewing Company head. Hike will be considered difficult. Please Not your typical canoe trip! Explore the rich 350 Park St SE bring food and water, and wear comfortable history of the Clinch River, learn of a time Abingdon, VA 24210 clothing and shoes. when Native Americans and Longhunters [email protected] lived along its banks to current day 276-492-2013 significance of the river. Snorkel in the Clinch River looking for freshwater mussels, darters, Russell County Health & Fitness 141 Highland Dr and other aquatic river life. Pre-registration is Campers Craft required. Age 6 and up. Lebanon, VA 24266 10:00AM • FREE [email protected] Take home a unique, one of a kind souvenir 276-254-0745 to tell your one of a kind story about your Natural Tunnel State Park park experience. Get creative with park staff 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway as you create your own masterpiece using Duffield, VA 24244 recycled material for your craft projects at the [email protected] Camp Store. Open to anyone. schedule also 276-940-1643

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Crooked Road Jammin and Local Talking Feet Movie and Dance Demo Quilt Show 4:00 - 6:00PM • FREE 10:00AM – 4:00PM • FREE Storytelling The Damascus Library, a branch of the See listing description under June 9. 6:00 – 9:00PM • FREE, DONATIONS Washington County Public Library, will show ACCEPTED the movie “Talking Feet: Solo Southern A Bluegrass Jam Session, and local story telling. Dance.” This 2007 documentary explores Georgia Blizzard-- Visionary flatfoot, buck hoedown and rural tap dancing Potter of Glade Spring VA styles. Join us after the movie for a solo Honey Bea’s Cafe dance demonstration. 7:00PM • FREE 392 South Railroad Ave., Honaker, VA 24260 Speaker, Jack McMichael Martin, long-time [email protected] neighbor of Georgia Blizzard, will share 276-873-4411 Damascus Library memories and influences of this extraordinary 310 Water St. woman who dug clay from the creek bank, Damascus, VA 24236 formed it, and fired it. The results wound up Heartwood Open Jam [email protected] in the Smithsonian, in New York galleries, and 6:30PM • FREE 276-492-2013 the High Museum in Atlanta, as well as in the Open Old Time and Bluegrass Jam at Virginia Museum in Richmond. Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Gateway and a Major Venue of The Crooked Wild Cave Tour: Bolling Cave Road. Bar-B-Que meals, coffee, beer and wine 2:00PM • $15 PER PERSON. FOR GROUPS Town Square Center for the Arts bar available. Bring your instrument or just OF 10 OR MORE $12 PER PERSON 214 Town Square your ears and don’t forget your appetite! Get down and dirty with this 2 hour wild cave Glade Spring VA 24340 tour. Explore the underground world of caves, [email protected] crawl through crevasses and waddle through 276-356-5183 Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan tunnels. View the archeology room, soda Gateway straws, and columns. Guests will get dirty. Pre- Welcome Campfire One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon, VA 24210 registration required. Ages 8 and up. For your [email protected] comfort and safety appropriate pants and closed 8:00 PM • FREE 276-492-2409 toe shoes required. Guest must use park gear. Spend time sharing stories, enjoying fun games and singing crazy songs by the glow of the fire. Fill your tummies with a roasted Pioneer Art League Exhibit Natural Tunnel State Park marshmallow or two. Each campfire is 11:30AM - 8:00PM • FREE 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway different due to staff leading the program. See listing description under June 9. Duffield, VA 24244 Get to know your camping neighbors while [email protected] making new friends during this program. The Quilt Show 276-940-1643 campfire will take place in the campground. 10:00AM – 4:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Jam Session Natural Tunnel State Park 7:00 - 10:00PM • FREE 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Musicians gather to play. Duffield, VA 24244 Stock Creek Passage [email protected] 10:00AM • $5 276-940-1643 Over 200 years ago, early adventurers like Lays Hardware Center for the Arts walked these same hills and 409 Front Street valleys we see today. This strenuous walk Coeburn, VA will include crossing boulders and rocks, just 276-395-5160 sat JUNE 17 like the early adventurers. Feel the refreshing cool water of Stock Creek on your feet and the cool summer breeze inside the tunnel on your face. Once inside the tunnel you will “A - the Life hear stories about how the tunnel was formed fri JUNE 16 and see a fault line. Wading attire, a flashlight and Times of Carter Stanley” and a wading staff are highly recommended. (performed by Gary Reid) Pre-registration is required. Ages 8 and up. Best Friend Festival Appropriate footwear is required, no flip- 7:00 PM • $10 VARIOUS • FREE flops, crocs, or sandals. “A Life of Sorrow - the Life and Times of See listing description under June 10. Carter Stanley” is a one-man play, with music, that pays homage to Appalachian Mountain music legend Carter Stanley, the expressive Natural Tunnel State Park Hicks Friday Night Jam 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway singer and songwriter and front man for 7:00PM • DONATIONS Duffield, VA 24244 the legendary Stanley Brothers duo, who See listing description under June 9. [email protected] introduced many to the high lonesome sound. 276-940-2674 Kayak the Clinch River: Boones Run The Russell County Conference Center Talking Appalachian 1:00PM • $15 PER PERSON 139 Highland Drive, Lebanon, VA 24266 See listing description under June 10. 7:00PM • FREE [email protected] “Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and 276-889-8063 Community” editor Amy Clark shares the rich Pioneer Art League Exhibit history of Appalachian language. 8:30AM - 5:00PM • FREE Best Friend Festival See listing description under June 9. VARIOUS • FREE See listing description under June 10. Main (Abingdon) Library 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA 24210 “Lunch on the Lawn” [email protected] 12:00PM • FREE, OPTIONAL $6 BOXED Canoe The Clinch 276-492-2013 LUNCH 9 AM • $15 PER PERSON OR FOR GROUPS See listing description under June 9. OF 10 OR MORE $12 PER PERSON See listing description under June 11.

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part two: or, “Oh see, can you say?”

(part one of this celebration of Southwest Virginia speech can be found in the 2016 MoMH program book)

When traveling along The Crooked Road, visitors can avoid hearing “You’re not from around here, are you?” by learning how to understand--and how to use--some common regional phrases. People in Southwest Virginia and the larger Appalachian region speak in a dialect full of colorful phrases, and below are just a few of the hundreds that can be heard. Some have found their way into general usage across the country, while others are more obscure nationally but still in common use along The Crooked Road. By repurposing regular words in new and imaginative ways, these phrases illustrate the imagination of Appalachian people and the often- witty sophistication of regional speech.

COME ON AND GO HOME WITH US: WELL I SWANEE (OR I’LL SWAN): This phrase is as it sounds, underscoring the A general exclamation expressing surprise. Similar to friendliness of Southwest Virginians. However, don’t “Well, I declare.” start packing your bags if someone says this to you. They are most likely just indicating that they are going home and being polite about it. If they continue to insist, then pack your bags. HAPPY AS A DEAD PIG IN THE SUNSHINE: Expressing total contentment. Thought to be derived from the possibly artificial look of happiness on a pig’s face when its mouth has drawn up into a grin from A FUR PIECE: lying dead in the hot sun. A long way off, as in “The next gas station is a fur piece down the road.” SNATCH BALDHEADED: A threat of physical action that someone might use I WOULDN’T CARE TO: to calm rowdy or undesirable behavior, as in “If you If you’ve asked someone to do a favor for you and this don’t leave that poor cat alone I’m going to snatch you is their reply, don’t think they are being rude because baldheaded.” the actual meaning is “sure, I wouldn’t mind helping you with that.” AIN’T NO HILL FOR A CLIMBER: Another way of saying “it’s easy if you know how.” MY DOGS ARE BARKING: Not to be taken literally, this phrase refers to tired legs or feet. HAM OF MEAT: Sounds like naming something twice and it is. In the old time song “How Many Biscuits Can You Eat” the FIXIN’ TO: answer is “49 and a ham of meat.” Going to, as in “I’m fixin’ to start my New Year’s resolution...next year”

HAVEN’T SEEN HIDE NOR HAIR: Utilizing imagery from hunting lore, this phrase simply YOU AND YOURN: refers to a person not having seen someone for a Refers to your family or folks, as in: “You and yourn are period of time. welcome to travel The Crooked Road any time of year”

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Clinch Mountain Honey Hole Abraham. The award winning project music with local musician Jud Barry. Bring is a compilation of fine art portraits of your lawn chair and enjoy this outdoor event. 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM • FREE contemporary Southwest Virginia Appalachians In the event of inclement weather, the event Community-wide garage sale, held in and the accompanying book tells their will be held inside the library. conjunction with the Clinch Mountain Music heartwarming stories. The artist and author, Fest. A “honey hole” of treasures, plus with some of the “Keepers”, will be available Appalachian food, truck style. throughout the day to share information about Glade Spring Library the project. “Keeper” Edwin Lacy, a claw- 305 North Glade St., Glade Spring, VA 24340 hammer banjoist from Wytheville, will perform [email protected] Water Street and 7 Resident Artists studios will be open 276-492-2013 Downtown Gate City offering demonstrations and arts & craft sales. Gate City, Virginia [email protected] Second Annual Bluegrass/Country 276-386-6521 The Arts Depot Music and Fundraising Auction 314 Depot Square, Abingdon, VA 24210 Clinch Mountain Music Fest [email protected] 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM • FREE, MEAL COST 276-628-9091 Volunteer staff will host a fantastic evening of 11:30 AM – 5:00 PM • FREE fun, with special Bluegrass and Country Music by Local, traditional bluegrass artists performing Boozy Creek Grass and Ramblin’ Rose. “Boozy at this event will capture the heart, soul, Find Your Scots-Irish Roots Creek Smokers” will prepare an on-site BBQ meal and spirit of our rich musical heritage in 2:00 PM • FREE, PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED for a minimal cost of $10.00 per person. Boozy Southwest Virginia. Local arts, crafts, and The Washington County Public Library will Creek Community Center, built in 2009, has a food vendors will also be present. A popular host a genealogy workshop at the Hayters mission of providing a location where friends and event for 11 years, the goal is to preserve and Gap library designed for those beginning or neighbors could get together for conversation, perpetuate the heritage of the Appalachian continuing their search for their Scottish or share a fantastic meal and listen to great music. region through its music. Evening events at Irish ancestors. Pre-registration is required. Event will also include a fundraising auction. the Carter Family Fold include music and Online registration is available at www.wcpl.net concerts. or call the library at 276-492-2013. Boozy Creek Community Center 1989 Shelleys Road Clinch Mountain Music Fest Hayters Gap Library Bristol, Virginia 24202 156 East Jackson Street 7720 Hayters Gap Road, Abingdon, VA 24210 [email protected] Gate City, VA 24251 [email protected] 423-323-5266 [email protected] 276-492-2013 276-386-3831 Find Your Scots-Irish Roots “Write Up the Road” 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM • FREE, PRE- 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM • $158 FULL Fincastle Hayride REGISTRATION REQUIRED PARTICIPATION INCLUDING COPYRIGHT, 6:30 PM • $5 FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN The Washington County Public Library FOODS AND GIFTS; $58 SPECTATOR 12 AND YOUNGER ARE $3 will host a genealogy workshop designed INCLUDING LUNCH; $18 EVENING Take a step back in time as we travel 7 miles for those beginning or continuing their PERFORMANCE along the historic Fincastle Turnpike. See the search for their Scottish or Irish ancestors. Annual songwriting event beginning with splendor of Rye Cove’s countryside with its Preregistration is required. Online registration Meet and Greet at 9 am, class at 9:30 and rolling hills, grasslands, and abundance of wildlife is available at www.wcpl.net or call the library lunch at noon. Speakers include Claire and even see some cactus. Enjoy stories about at 276-492-2013. Gardiner with the Library of Congress, Donna some of the structures, including The Masonic G. Sullivan Booking Agency and Dale Ann Lodge, Brick Church, and much more, that are Bradley, 5 time Female Bluegrass Entertainer over 100 years ago. Pre-registration is required. Main (Abingdon) Library of the Year. The day ends with a ticketed 205 Oak Hill St., Abingdon, VA 24210 performance. [email protected] Natural Tunnel State Park 276-492-2013 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Crooked Road General Store Duffield, VA 24244 6292 Gate City Highway [email protected] Music Festival Bristol, VA 24202 276-940-1643 12:00 NOON – 8:00 PM • FREE, DONATIONS 2 miles from I-81 Exit 1 ACCEPTED [email protected] Outdoor traditional music festival. 2nd Annual 423-782-0254 Pioneer Art League Exhibit High Knob Music Festival will be held at the 10:00-2:00 • FREE High Knob Recreation Area amphitheater See listing description under June 9. beside the recreation lake. In the first year Bluegrass Music on the Lawn (2015), the festival brought over 700 people to featuring “Hollow Ground”! the recreation area with featured performers Quilt Show 2:00 PM • FREE & the Hillbilly Household. 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM • FREE Enjoy the downhome bluegrass sound of See listing description under June 9. Hollow Ground, a bluegrass and gospel group located in NE TN and SW Virginia, on the lawn High Knob Recreation Area of the Coeburn Community Library. Come on Stock Creek Passage High Knob Recreation Area in the Jefferson by – bring your chair and relax. Lemonade and Nation Forest 2:00 PM • $5 light refreshments will be served! Norton, Virginia See listing description under June 15. [email protected] 276-393-9652 Coeburn Community Library “Keepers of the Tradition” Art 111 Third St. Mountain Drone: Coeburn, VA 24230 Exhibit & Book Signing [email protected] EXHIBITION 10 AM-4 PM, EDWIN LACY From Bagpipe to Dulcimer 276-395-6152 PERFORMS LIVE CLAW-HAMMER BANJO CONCERT 2-4 PM • FREE 11:00 AM • FREE “Keepers of the Tradition” is a collaboration A family friendly exploration of musical between artist, Leslie Gregg & writer, Michael instruments traditionally used in Appalachian

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may want to bring a lawn chair. Camping available on HOUSTONFEST: site. More information at houstonfestgalax.com or call HoustonFest at (276) 236-9908. FRIDAY STARTS AT 12:00PM • SATURDAY STARTS AT 10:00AM • 2 Day Ticket $40 • 1 Day Ticket (Fri Tickets available at www.HoustonFestGalax.com and or Sat) $20 • At The Gate: $25 per person per day • www.mtnsofmusic.com Children 12 & under admitted free with paying adult Location: Felts Park, 601 South Main St., Galax FRIDAY, JUNE 9: The Church Sisters, Ladies & Gents, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, The Snyder Family Band, Some of the finest bluegrass and old time acts will Fiddlin’ Carson Peters & Iron Mountain, Six String perform June 9-10 at Felts Park in Galax as part of Soldiers (US Army Field Band), ShadowGrass, Jeff Little HoustonFest. This 2-day doozy of a festival was started Trio, John Berry, Silas Powell, Jonah Riddle & Carolina in 2011 to commemorate the memory of Express, Presley Barker & Kitty Amaral, Jeff Brown & Still Caldwell, a locally beloved banjo-player who died at Lonesome, Mountain Highway, Larry Sigmon & Martha the age of 18. In addition to relaxing while listening to Spencer, Crooked Road Ramblers, Whitetop Mountain music, attendees may participate in workshops and Band, New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters, The Jones showcases and also meet and learn from local luthiers Sisters Band, Gravel Road, Burnett Sisters, The Wolfe and other artisans. Youth can head over to Camp Brothers String Band Houston, a gathering area where they can make music and participate in other fun activities. This is an incredibly SATURDAY JUNE 10: Jerry Douglas & the Earls of fun, action packed music festival with a wonderful Leicester, ShadowGrass, Loose Strings, The Church community feel. Grand stand seating is limited so you Sisters, Laura Leigh Jones, Fiddlin’ Carson Peters & Iron

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Mountain, Volume Five, Wayne Henderson & Virginia JAM, Dry Hill Draggers, New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters, Luthier Band, Six String Soldiers (US Army Field Band), Strictly Strings, Whitetop Mountain Band, Crooked Road Emi Sunshine, Flatt Lonesome, Mountain Highway, Jonah Ramblers, Cane Mill Road, Jimmy Edmonds & Caden Riddle & Carolina Express, Silas Powell Family Band, Miller, Mountain Park Old Time Band Gravel Road, Blue Devil High School String Band, Regional

Ronni Lundy Changing Lanes Photo by Pableaux Johnson Pableaux by Photo

cornbread!) You’ll grab a plate and fill it to brimming FEASTIVAL AT DINWIDDIE with all kinds of “church-lady” food, prepared at the nearby Crossroads Institute. As guests take PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: places at tables in the open-air pavilion, members of the Dinwiddie congregation will serve as church FOOD, FAITH, MUSIC, & COMMUNITY ambassadors, ready to answer questions about the history of their community. 12:45 PM • $35 • Children Under 6 Free Hosted by: Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church Special artists and speakers will help celebrate local Sponsored by: Blue Ridge Beverage, Virginia culture. Ronni Lundy, nationally acclaimed author of Tourism Corporation Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes (2016) will Location: Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church, 2698 be on hand, sharing her warmth, humor, and wit. She’ll Homestead Rd, Hillsville join forces with Libby Bondurant, co-author with the late Betty Skeens of Grazing Along the Crooked Road. It’s an all-day singin’ an’ dinner on the grounds! Well, Ronni and Libby will share insights about the region’s maybe not all day. But this Feastival will certainly be foodways and the stories behind the recipes they’ve a wonderful afternoon of traditional Appalachian collected in their respective travels. And you’ll take home hospitality and music, hosted by historic Dinwiddie a handcrafted plate from ‘Round the Mountain juried Presbyterian Church in Hillsville. As you drive in from artisan, Hannah Martin, of Heartmoss Pottery. Interstate 81, you’ll be surrounded by the lush greenness of Southwest Virginia’s farm country—the very land Traditional music is alive and well in Southwest Virginia, from which our Feastival food will be sourced. Perched and this Feastival will introduce you to some of our very high atop a mountain, you’ll enjoy fabulous food, best. Changing Lanes, a bluegrass band with close ties excellent music, genuine Appalachian hospitality, and to Dinwiddie Church, features an 11-year-old bass player. extraordinary views. The congregation extends a warm But don’t be fooled by their relative youth. In 2016, this welcome, hoping that you’ll choose to join them for the self-described “hard driving bluegrass/gospel band from Sunday morning service, beginning at 11:15 AM. the heart of Appalachia” took first place in the Virginia Folk Music Association’s State Championship. Joining Radiating its own rustic, hand-hewn charm, Dinwiddie the youngsters are a couple of the region’s musical Presbyterian Church was founded in October of 1897. sages, Mac Traynham and Edwin Lacy. Traynham is a The present-day stone church was built in 1946, under master banjo maker whose virtuosity as an old-time the guidance of Reverend R. W. Childress. The six rock banjo picker has been featured on The Crooked Road’s churches that Childress fostered in the area still function Mountain Masters tour. His pastor, Edwin Lacy, is a banjo with active congregations but have also become popular player and songwriter who offers an Appalachian- sites to visit because of their beautiful scenic locations grounded ministry at the Wild Goose Christian and artful construction. Community in Floyd County. Traynham and Lacy will demonstrate old gospel music traditions such as This dinner-on-the-the-grounds style Feastival shape-note singing and lining out hymns, and audience will feature a menu inspired by tradition. (Expect participation will be welcomed.

June 9-17, 2017 • 46 RECIPES Ronni Lundy’s Real Cornbread

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups cornmeal, preferably • 1 large egg stone-ground • 1½ cups milk or buttermilk • 1 teaspoon salt • 4 tablespoons bacon grease or • ½ teaspoon baking soda butter • ½ teaspoon baking powder • Preheat the oven to 450°F.

PROCEDURE:

In a large bowl, mix together the cornmeal, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Break the egg into the bowl and poke it to break the yolk. Add the milk and stir quickly and vigorously to combine. The consistency you are looking for is denser than typical pancake batter but still pourable. Add more milk or water if it needs to be thinned. Put the grease in a 9- or 10-inch ovenproof (preferably cast-iron) skillet and put the skillet in the oven to get sizzling hot, but make sure it doesn’t start to smoke. Butter will brown quickly after melting, but browned (not burned) butter can add a rich tone to the final bread as well.

Remove the skillet from the oven and carefully tilt it to coat the bottom and the lower half of the sides. Slowly pour most of the sizzling grease into the batter, leaving a thin layer of grease in the pan. Stir quickly to incorporate it, and then turn the batter out into the hot skillet. Place the skillet in the oven and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the center of the cornbread is firm and the edges are brown, crispy, and pulled away from edges of the pan.

If you want a more browned top, run it under the broiler for just a few seconds (keep a sharp eye on it because it can burn very easily). Serve immediately from the pan or turned out onto a plate, cut in wedges. I have learned to put butter on the table for others, but in my family we use none because the drippings in the bread are sufficient.

Reprinted from Victuals, Copyright © 2016 by Ronni Lundy. Photographs copyright © 2016 by Johnny Autry. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC.

Ronni Lundy, award winning author of the recently published Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes, will serve as keynote speaker for all three of our Feastival events.

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A 2009 inductee into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame, Sammy has fronted the acclaimed Lonesome River Band since 1990, recording more RECIPES than a dozen albums with that group. Probably best-known for being a member of an iconic bluegrass family (his brother is bluegrass legend ), is a skilled guitarist, bandleader, and with several acclaimed albums to his credit, including last year’s Something Out of the Blue (made with banjoist Dan Menzone). A resident of Taylor’s Valley, Virginia, where he operates Rice Recording Studio, Rice has played rhythm and lead with a Who’s Who of bluegrass musicians, including the Tony Rice Unit, the Committee, Ricky Skaggs, , and Bela Fleck.

One of the musicians Wyatt Rice has performed with frequently in recent years is Abingdon, Virginia- GUITAR MASTERS: , resident CLAIBORNE WOODALL. Appearing both in a duo with Rice and solo, Woodall has WYATT RICE, CLAIBORNE WOODALL, performed throughout Southwest Virginia (such as at Floydfest and the Bristol Rhythm and JOSH PICKETT Roots Reunion) and beyond (including at the Smithsonian Institution and on National Public Radio). Claiborne masterfully uses the full dynamic 7:00PM • $12 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 range of the guitar’s volume, mixing syncopated $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) melody lines and notes that range from a whisper to Hosted by: The Town of Marion and the a shout. Lincoln Theatre

Location: 117 East Main St., Marion JOSH PICKETT is a widely sought-after acoustic This concert will feature four true masters of the guitarist based in Cana, Virginia. He won the instrument - Wyatt Rice, Claiborne Woodall, Josh International Guitar Championship at MerleFest Pickett, and Sammy Shelor. This “Guitar Masters” in 2001 (at 17 he was the youngest ever to hold concert will provide a rare opportunity to appreciate this title), and he went on to play lead and rhythm banjo master Shelor’s artistry on the guitar guitar for such bands as Fast Forward, Valerie Smith alongside the astonishing display of skills from Rice, & Liberty Pike, No Speed Limit, Larry Cordle and Woodall, and Pickett. Lonesome Standard Time, and the Church Sisters.

This concert celebrates the release of The Crooked Stuart, Virginia-native SAMMY SHELOR is one of the most respected banjo players in bluegrass history. Road’s new CD compilation of current and historic guitarists entitled A Century of Heritage Guitar Music.

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Amanda Smith Band, & Carolina, and Doyle Lawson COX & COMPANY, COUNTRY BOYS & Quicksilver.

7:30PM • $10 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 For over 40 years, THE COUNTRY BOYS have enjoyed $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) a reputation as a top-notch bluegrass band. With Hosted by: Bland County members hailing from Mount Airy, North Carolina, and Location: Bland County Fairgrounds, 31 Fairground St., Stuart, Virginia, the band is especially known among fans Bland for soaring vocal harmonies and rock-solid drive that characterizes great bluegrass bands. Over the years, Based out of Southwest Virginia, COX & COMPANY- the band has been a dominant force in bluegrass band -formed in 2010--includes Joey Cox, Crystal Shipley, competitions across the region, including multiple first- Patrick Robertson, Barry Collins, and Gale Shockley. place wins at the prestigious Old Fiddlers Convention. The Guitarist/banjoist/vocalist Joey Cox grew up in Pulaski Country Boys have released numerous bluegrass and County, Virginia, and spent eight years on the bluegrass gospel recordings, including an album of all road performing with such bands as Blue Ridge, The Kenny & original bluegrass material to be released in 2017. artisan trails Discover the Artisan Trails of Southwest Virginia, where the story of our communities is uniquely told through visits to local artisan studios, galleries & shops, farms and more. Plan your trip today and take a piece of SWVA home with you! www.roundthemountain.org CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE

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“Americana” Community Quilt Challenge 12:00 - 6:00 PM • FREE Quilts interpreting the theme, “Americana’ in a variety of ways will be on display. Handmade by community members, the quilts are of many different sizes and the exhibit showcases a wide range of styles and techniques.

Appalachian Arts Center 2157 Steelsburg Highway Cedar Bluff, VA 24609 [email protected] 276-596-9188

Allison Gap Jamboree 6:30PM • FREE Bring your instrument and or talent and join in the music making, or just sit back and experience the rich traditional Appalachian musical heritage traveling throughout the gathering. Food is available and coffee is free!

Allison Gap Community Center 165 Lick Skillet Road Saltville, VA 24370 [email protected] 276-783-3161

Celebrate Appalachia VARIOUS TIMES • VARIOUS FEES Week-long series of craft and cultural events celebrating the spirit of Appalachia in conjunction with The Hungry Mother Arts and Crafts Festival, Marion’s 31st Chili Cook- Off, and The Henderson Festival at Grayson Highlands State Park. Traditional arts and crafts demonstrations; workshops in Letterpress, wood turning, book making, weaving, quilting, and plein air painting. The Henderson will be exhibiting “Appalachian Eccentric Art,” contemporary folk art created from non traditional materials. Performances will include storytelling, ballad singing, and traditional old time music as well as our HendersonJAM (Junior Appalachian Musicians).

The Wayne C Henderson School of Appalachian Arts 203 N Church Street Symbol key Marion, VA 24354 [email protected] 276-706-4010

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Exhibit: Traditional Musical Styles of New River Family Float Experience & ice cream are available for purchase. Southwest Virginia - from past to present 8:00AM – 6:00PM (RENTAL CUT-OFF AT 3:00 PM) • $12 DURING HOUSTON FEST JUNE 9-10, AND Big Walker Lookout Enjoy a lazy fun-filled float in tubes (upon JUNE 12-17 DURING CCSA HOURS: M-F 8711 Stoney Fork Rd., Wytheville, VA 24382 reservation) down the New River. The float 9:00AM - 5:00PM, SATURDAY 11:00AM - [email protected] route is a scenic 1.5 miles and will take 2.5 3:00PM • HOUSTONFEST - ADMISSION FEE TO 276-613-4407 hours depending on the current water levels. THE FESTIVAL, CCSA - FREE Shuttles to the drop off will be provided with Historical exhibit of traditional singers and the rental also. Recommended items to bring: Second Fridays “Alive After Five” singing styles in Southwest Virginia, from the a change of clothes, dry bags/storage, water start of recorded music to the present. Exhibit shoes and sunscreen. Items also available for ArtWalk features early singers/bands who have had purchase. A 10% discount on rentals will be 5:00 – 8:00PM • FREE influence on singing and playing styles and given to all Mountains of Music guests. The Second Fridays “Alive After Five” ArtWalk, repertoires, and traces how those influences held in downtown Marion, features art, can be seen in the present time. This exhibit crafts, music, jewelry, special events, exhibits will start at Houston Fest and then will move New River Outdoor Adventures and more. Explore downtown shops and back to Chestnut Creek School of the Arts. 5785 Fries Rd., Galax, VA 24333 restaurants, with each venue featuring its own [email protected] ArtWalk activities and special promotions. 276-237-8823 Chestnut Creek School for the Arts 100 N Main St Appalachian Spirit Gallery Galax, VA Roots of American Music Museum Exhibit 144 West Main Street, Marion, VA 24354 [email protected] 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE [email protected] 276-236-3500 The BRMC’s Roots of American Music 276-706-2909 exhibit tells the compelling story of the Friday Bluegrass Jam at BRMC region’s rich music heritage. Visitors can listen to and enjoy music, mix their own 12:00 – 4:00PM • FREE versions of mountain music, learn about Participatory, Facilitated, Open Jam at BRMC music instrument evolution and hear SAT JUNE 10 personal stories of how music has influenced generations of Blue Ridge families. The Blue Ridge Music Center exhibition helps visitors better understand 700 Foothills Rd. (Mile Marker 213 Blue Ridge and appreciate the complexity and richness “Americana” Community Quilt Challenge Parkway), Galax, VA 24333 of this part of our regional culture. [email protected] 10:00AM - 6:00PM • FREE 276-236-5309 See listing description under June 9. Blue Ridge Music Center Galax Farmers Market 700 Foothills Rd. (Mile Marker 213 Blue Ridge Celebrate Appalachia Parkway), Galax, VA 24333 8:00AM – 1:00PM • FREE [email protected] VARIOUS TIMES • VARIOUS FEES Local farm produce, meats, baked goods and 276-236-5309 See listing description under June 9. locally made crafts. Marion Downtown Summer Concert Exhibit: Traditional Musical Styles of Galax Farmers Market Southwest Virginia - from past to present 210 North Main Street, Galax, VA 24333 Series DURING HOUSTON FEST JUNE 9-10, AND [email protected] 8:00 – 10:00PM • FREE JUNE 12-17 DURING CCSA HOURS: M-F 276-233-7983 Annual downtown Summer Concert Series hosted at the Farmers Market Pavilion in 9:00AM - 5:00PM, SATURDAY 11:00AM - downtown Marion offering a variety of 3:00PM • HOUSTONFEST - ADMISSION FEE TO Independence Farmers Market music ranging from Americana to authentic THE FESTIVAL, CCSA - FREE See listing description under June 9. 9:00AM – 1:00PM • FREE bluegrass. Come listen to some of the most Weekly Farmers Market featuring free kids talented musicians around! Free music starts activities, fresh local food and artisan crafts. at 8:00PM, food and beverages will be on Galax Farmers Market sale, just bring a chair or blanket! 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Independence Farmers Market Corner of Hwy 21 and Hwy58 Marion Farmers Market Pavilion Independence, VA Corner of Cherry and Chestnut Streets (Town Marion Regional Farmers Market [email protected] Square Parking Lot) 8:00AM – 12:00PM • FREE 276-768-0597 [email protected] Join the vendors of Marion Farmers Market 276-783-4190 as we celebrate local! In addition to having Music in the Park local meats, produce, jams, jellies, flowers and handmade items for sale, the market will also 7:00 - 8:00 PM • $4 PARKING FEE Mountain Top Music: Tom Roush be hosting live music, food demonstrations Bring a chair to the Gazebo to enjoy the 2:00 – 4:00PM • FREE and kids activities! sounds of local artists. Sponsored by local Big Walker Lookout, a Crooked Road venue, businesses and Friends of Hungry Mother. welcomes back Tom Roush to play on the Gazebo is located behind the restaurant. front porch! Tom has been performing and arranging music for some 40 years Marion Farmers Market Pavilion Corner of Cherry and Chestnut Streets (Town covering most genres, although his first Square Parking Lot) love is 19th century American music. He Hungry Mother State Park - at the gazebo [email protected] performs at various venues including Civil behind The Restaurant 276-783-4190 2854 Park Blvd, Marion, VA 24354 War reenactments, county fairs, and schools [email protected] where he plays, sing and shares his vast 276-781-7415 historical knowledge. Bring your lawn chairs (or use our picnic pavilion) and a picnic lunch, and get ready for an afternoon of good music and fun! Hot dogs, snacks, drinks,

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craft A Story of Migration, A Thriving Artisan Culture, A Uniquely American Blend

Major settlement of the Great Valley of Virginia got underway in the middle of the 18th century when Southwest Virginia as we know it today was still considered the backcountry. It often took two or three generations to get all the way to Southwest Virginia. The Valley’s settlers came from the north through the port of , and many of them, like Virginia’s first settlers to coastal Tidewater a century before, were from the British Isles. The newcomers, however, were from different parts of Britain - northern England, Scotland and the north of Ireland – and all were responding to the prospect of land ownership that the Valley promised. Others joined them in this quest for a better life, particularly immigrants from the Palatinate area of Germany. It was a major migration. Before it was over, an estimated 250,000 traveled west down the Valley’s main route, the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.

Artisans followed settlers. Far away from the coast, the Valley’s settlers had little access to ports and the household goods that regularly arrived from Europe. Unlike the large plantation development of the Tidewater, the Valley grew in settlement clusters that grew into communities and towns. Around them gathered the artisans to supply their daily needs. And since traveling to the Valley was usually on horseback and, at best, a wagon, few household goods could be brought along. The Valley was ripe for business, and an early artisan culture thrived.

Many of these newcomers had tarried in the Philadelphia area – some for a generation - where they often learned their craft or perfected their skills as cabinetmakers, potters, and metalworkers. Added to this was a remembered culture of musical heritage and home textile production…weaving, spinning, sewing. Once in their new home they used what was at hand to continue their traditions. Abundant forests supplied walnut and cherry for the earliest furniture, and wide, flowing rivers supplied rich clay for an emerging ceramics industry. The climate and geography, so similar to the hills of northern Britain and Germany, appealed to the new settlers and soon sheep were grazing and wool was spun. The German dulcimer and Scots-Irish fiddle made the trip, too, and were joined by of African slaves.

As the years went by, these different groups moved around and moved on, taking along with them new techniques and market preferences. What emerged was a blend - a lively mix that was uniquely American. The result was the rich and often exuberant design look that has become known as Great Road Style: the simple and elegant lines of its earliest Chippendale furniture, the friendly pierced- tin panels of its mid-19th century food safes, the dark liquid manganese oxide dabs and daubs of its first earthenware pottery, the woven flax and indigo and madder-dyed wool of its warm coverlets, and the handmade craftsmanship of its dulcimers.

Betsy K. White is the director of William King Museum of Art in Abingdon and author of Great Road Style: The Decorative Arts Legacy of Southwest & Northeast Tennessee and Backcountry Makers: An Artisan History of Southwest Virginia & Northeast Tennessee.

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Midday Mountain Music at BRMC Exhibit: Traditional Musical Styles of INFORMAL MUSIC PRESENTATIONS BY LOCAL Southwest Virginia - from past to present & REGIONAL TRADITIONAL MUSICIANS SUN JUNE 11 12:00 – 4:00PM • FREE DURING HOUSTON FEST JUNE 9-10, AND Sounds of the fiddle, banjo, and guitar are JUNE 12-17 DURING CCSA HOURS: M-F likely to welcome you when you visit the Blue 9:00AM - 5:00PM, SATURDAY 11:00AM - Ridge Music Center. Experience regional Celebrate Appalachia 3:00PM • HOUSTONFEST - ADMISSION FEE TO traditional music each day of the week with VARIOUS TIMES • VARIOUS FEES THE FESTIVAL, CCSA - FREE local and regional “Midday Mountain Musicians” See listing description under June 9. See listing description under June 9. presenting informal presentations on the open- air, covered breezeway of the visitors center. Exhibit: Traditional Musical Styles of Flatfoot Workshop Southwest Virginia - from past to present 11:30AM - 12:30PM • FREE Blue Ridge Music Center Come out for an introduction to flatfooting DURING HOUSTON FEST JUNE 9-10, AND and discussion of local dance traditions. Learn 700 Foothills Rd. (Mile Marker 213 Blue Ridge JUNE 12-17 DURING CCSA HOURS: M-F Parkway), Galax, VA 24333 a few steps before the start of the Mountain 9:00AM - 5:00PM, SATURDAY 11:00AM - Midday Music when the Buck Mountain Band [email protected] 3:00PM • HOUSTONFEST - ADMISSION FEE TO 276-236-5309 will kick up their tunes and practice what THE FESTIVAL, CCSA - FREE you’ve been learning. Stay to learn a couple See listing description under June 9. more steps, a square dance, or just have fun Mountain Top Music: Davis Bradley dancing to this fabulous old-time band. 2:00 – 4:00PM • FREE Mountain Top Music: Mike Gray Gospel Big Walker Lookout, a Crooked Road venue, 2:00 – 4:00PM • FREE Blue Ridge Music Center welcomes back the sensational duo Davis Big Walker Lookout, a Crooked Road venue, 700 Foothills Rd. (Mile Marker 213 Blue Ridge Bradley to play on the front porch this welcomes back Mike Gray to play on the front Parkway), Galax, VA 24333 Summer! Kathy Davis & Bradley Bishop porch this Summer! Mike sings gospel. He [email protected] present a one of a kind musical experience takes the Word and goes where he is needed, 276-236-3500 with bluegrass, old time and swing influences. including the local prisons. Bring your lawn Bring your lawn chairs (or use our picnic chairs (or use our picnic pavilion) and a picnic pavilion) and a picnic lunch, and get ready lunch, and get ready for an afternoon of good Midday Mountain Music at BRMC for an afternoon of good music and fun! Hot music and fun! Hot dogs, snacks, drinks, & INFORMAL MUSIC PRESENTATIONS BY LOCAL dogs, snacks, drinks, & delicious ice cream delicious ice cream are available for purchase. & REGIONAL TRADITIONAL MUSICIANS are available for purchase. 12:00 – 4:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. Big Walker Lookout Big Walker Lookout 8711 Stoney Fork Rd., Wytheville, VA 24382 8711 Stoney Fork Rd., Wytheville, VA 24382 [email protected] New River Family Float Experience [email protected] 276-613-4407 8:00AM – 6:00PM (RENTAL CUT-OFF AT 276-613-4407 3:00PM) • $12 New River Family Float Experience See listing description under June 9. New River Family Float Experience 8:00AM – 6:00PM (RENTAL CUT-OFF AT 8:00AM – 6:00PM (RENTAL CUT-OFF AT 3:00PM) • $12 Roots of American Music Museum Exhibit 3:00 PM) • $12 See listing description under June 9. 10:00AM – 5:00PM See listing description under June 9. See listing description under June 9.

Roots of American Music Museum Exhibit Roots of American Music Museum Exhibit 10:00AM – 5:00PM Smyth County Jam 10:00AM – 5:00PM See listing description under June 9. 6:30PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Musical event that showcases the various Sunday Old-Time Jam at BRMC musicians and singers in the surrounding area, teaches the aspects of musicianship and Wytheville Farmers Market 12:00 – 4:00PM • FREE encourages the development of new talents Open, Facilitated Old-Time Jam led by Stu 8:00AM – 12:00PM • FREE while providing entertainment as a service Shenk and the Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers Join the Wytheville Farmers Market for locally to the community and county. Dancing is grown produce, artisan crafts, demonstrations, welcome! Concessions are available. live music and more! Comprised of passionate local farmers, gardeners, cooks, bakers Blue Ridge Music Center and artisans, items sold by our vendors 700 Foothills Rd. (Mile Marker 213 Blue Ridge Parkway), Galax, VA 24333 Chilhowie Lions Club Building come from both large farms and backyard 116 Industrial Park Road, Chilhowie, VA 24319 [email protected] gardens located throughout the six counties [email protected] 276-236-5309 surrounding Wytheville. 276-783-3161

Wytheville Farmers Market 210 W. Spring St., Wytheville, VA 24382 [email protected] MON JUNE 12 TUEs JUNE 13 (276) 620-4095

“Americana” Community Quilt Challenge “Americana” Community Quilt Challenge 12:00 - 6:00PM • FREE 12:00 - 6:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. See listing description under June 9.

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Exhibit: Traditional Musical Styles of Celebrate Appalachia when the weather is nice, we do it out back in the band stand (gazebo). If the weather Southwest Virginia - from past to present VARIOUS TIMES • VARIOUS FEES is threatening or cold, we move inside. The See listing description under June 9. DURING HOUSTON FEST JUNE 9-10, AND jam goes on year-round, with exceptions JUNE 12-17 DURING CCSA HOURS: M-F 9:00AM for Christmas and New Years, if they fall on - 5:00PM, SATURDAY 11:00AM - 3:00PM • Exhibit: Traditional Musical Styles of a Wednesday. Otherwise, we’re here. Come HOUSTONFEST - ADMISSION FEE TO THE join us and bring your instrument or just a FESTIVAL, CCSA - FREE Southwest Virginia - from past to present listening-ear! See listing description under June 9. DURING HOUSTON FEST JUNE 9-10, AND JUNE 12-17 DURING CCSA HOURS: M-F 9:00AM - 5:00PM, SATURDAY 11:00AM - 3:00PM • Historic 1908 Independence Courthouse Midday Mountain Music at BRMC HOUSTONFEST - ADMISSION FEE TO THE 107 E. Main St., Independence, VA 24348 INFORMAL MUSIC PRESENTATIONS BY LOCAL FESTIVAL, CCSA - FREE [email protected] & REGIONAL TRADITIONAL MUSICIANS See listing description under June 9. 276-773-8002 12:00 – 4:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. Gospel Singing in the Park 6:00 – 9:00PM • FREE Thur JUNE 15 New River Family Float Experience Join Valley Grass and Front Porch Gospel 8:00AM – 6:00PM (RENTAL CUT-OFF AT for Gospel Singing in the Park. Concessions 3:00 PM) • $12 available. See listing description under June 9. “Americana” Community Quilt Challenge 12:00 - 6:00PM • FREE Chilhowie Town Park See listing description under June 9. Roots of American Music Museum Exhibit Railroad Avenue, Chilhowie, VA 24319 10:00AM – 5:00PM [email protected] See listing description under June 9. 276-783-3161 Midday Mountain Music at BRMC INFORMAL MUSIC PRESENTATIONS BY LOCAL & REGIONAL TRADITIONAL MUSICIANS Salty Dog Jam Midday Mountain Music at BRMC 12:00 – 4:00PM • FREE 7:00PM • FREE INFORMAL MUSIC PRESENTATIONS BY LOCAL See listing description under June 10. Bring your instruments and talent and join & REGIONAL TRADITIONAL MUSICIANS in the music making! Or just sit back and 12:00 – 4:00PM • FREE experience the Contra and Blue Grass music. See listing description under June 10. Celebrate Appalachia Don’t forget to bring you dancing shoes!! VARIOUS TIMES • VARIOUS FEES Concessions are available. Mountains of Music Day at the Rural See listing description under June 9. Retreat Farmers Market at the Depot Exhibit: Traditional Musical Styles Holston River Coon Club Lake View Drive, Saltville, VA 24370 MARKET 1:30 – 5:30PM of Southwest Virginia - from past to [email protected] ARTS EVENTS 3:00 - 8:00PM • FREE 276-783-3161 Music, dance and demonstration events at present the weekly Rural Retreat Farmers Market at DURING HOUSTON FEST JUNE 9-10, AND the Depot. The historic Rural Retreat Depot, JUNE 12-17 DURING CCSA HOURS: M-F 9:00AM made famous by O. Winston Link’s photos - 5:00PM, SATURDAY 11:00AM - 3:00PM • of the last steam trains in America, will be HOUSTONFEST - ADMISSION FEE TO THE WED JUNE 14 open for tours. Local Master Gardener Lesley FESTIVAL, CCSA - FREE Boykin will hold a featured demonstration. See listing description under June 9. and dance performances: widely known musician Jim Lloyd, Junior Kick Back the Rug: Community Social “Americana” Community Quilt Challenge Appalachian Musicians, the legendary Wayne Henderson, and others, will perform. Food 12:00 - 6:00PM • FREE circa 1900 available for purchase. Bring your lawn chair. See listing description under June 9. 5:00 – 8:30PM • FREE Modeled after the traditional summer socials,

circa 1900, the farm museum is hosting a Bolling Wilson Hotel, Black Horse The Rural Retreat Depot social with square dancing , box suppers, 105 West Railroad Avenue Artisan Guild and Rose Cottage School of cake walks, and visiting with neighbors and Rural Retreat, VA 24368 friends. Music by local musicians. Art brings music and art to Downtown [email protected] Wytheville 276-565-7203 5:00 – 8:00PM • FREE Matthews Living History Farm Museum “Wine Down” on Wednesday, June 14th New River Family Float Experience 476 White Pine Road while enjoying wine and music at the Bolling Galax, VA 24333 8:00AM – 6:00PM (RENTAL CUT-OFF AT Wilson Hotel. During the music, a local artist [email protected] 3:00 PM) • $12 from Black Horse Artisan Guild will have 276-773-3080 See listing description under June 9. art demonstrations and exhibitions. Take a short walk to Cottage School of Art New River Family Float Experience for more music and an open house that will Roots of American Music Museum Exhibit highlight cultural opportunities the Cottage 8:00AM – 6:00PM (RENTAL CUT-OFF AT 10:00AM – 5:00PM brings to Wytheville. 3:00 PM) • $12 See listing description under June 9. See listing description under June 9.

Bolling Wilson Hotel, Black Horse Artisan Wednesday Night Old-Time Mountain Guild and Rose Cottage School of Art Roots of American Music Museum Exhibit Main Street, Downtown Wytheville Music Jam 10:00AM – 5:00PM 276-223-3343 6:30 – 9:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Every Wednesday night from 6:30 to 9:00pm, the Historic 1908 Courthouse sponsors an Old-time Mountain Music Jam. In the summer

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13th century. While learning songs, stories, and lore from family members and neighbors, Kennedy befriended the local handweavers. During the 1950s, he made annual trips to Scotland’s Outer Hebrides to learn the local weaving, Gaelic songs, and cultural practices. Residing in Planfield, Vermont, Kennedy travels the USA performing the old songs and ballads, telling stories, and instructing people in traditional weaving techniques, including the rarely practiced community method of waulking (shrinking) cloth accompanied by group song.

AOIFE CLANCY (pronounced “Eefa”) brings a wide- ranging repertoire to her concerts, including traditional Irish songs, ballads, and contemporary folk. Aoife hails from Carrick-on-Suir, in , Ireland. By the age of 14 she was performing in pubs with her father, Bobby Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers. In 1995 Clancy was asked to join Cherish the Ladies, and she was part of that acclaimed group when it collaborated with the Boston Pops on that orchestra’s Grammy-nominated Celtic album.

Born and raised in Worcestershire, England, of a NORMAN KENNEDY, AOIFE CLANCY, Welsh family, JOHN ROBERTS is one of the foremost interpreters of traditional English songs and ballads. Now JOHN ROBERTS, BOBBY MCMILLON based in Schenectady, New York, he sings songs and ballads with banjo or concertina accompaniment as well 7:00PM • $12 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 as a cappella. Roberts today mostly performs solo or in Hosted by: Blue Ridge Institute & Museum tandem with folksinger Debra Cowan, with whom he has at Ferrum College toured and recorded an album of traditional ballads. Location: Ferrum College, Sale Auditorium in Schoolfield Hall, ROBERT LYNN “BOBBY” MCMILLON, a North 200 Wiley Dr., Ferrum Carolina Folk Heritage Award recipient, was heir to numerous strands of Appalachian culture. From his This concert truly brings “The Year We Sang” 2017 father’s family in Cocke County, Tennessee, he learned Homecoming theme to life through outstanding Primitive Baptist hymns and traditional stories and interpreters of ballad and traditional songs from four ballads. From his mother’s people in Yancey and countries – England, Ireland, Scotland and America. Mitchell Counties, North Carolina, he heard booger The rich sources and the preservation of the ballads tales, haint tales, and legends about the murder of that are part of the Appalachian musical heritage will a relative named Charlie Silver. Bobby has appeared be fully appreciated when these great tradition bearers as a singer and songwriter across North Carolina. share their stories and songs. Filmmaker Tom Davenport produced a film, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, that features McMillon singing that NORMAN KENNEDY was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, ballad and telling stories passed down in his family into a family with roots in that port city dating to the and community about the murder.

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GUITAR MASTERS: WAYNE A TRIBUTE TO THE STANLEY HENDERSON, WILL JONES, BROTHERS: RICKY SKAGGS, LARRY BRANDON DAVIS SPARKS, RALPH STANLEY II

7:00PM • $10 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 2:00PM • FLOYD RADIO SHOW (see listing p.67) • $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) 5:00PM • FILM DISCUSSION (FREE) Hosted by: Reynolds Homestead 7:30PM • $25 • $10 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Location: 463 Homestead Lane, Critz Hosted by: Moss Arts Center Location: 190 Alumni Mall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg This concert features three of Southwest Virginia’s finest guitar pickers. Legendary guitarist/luthierWAYNE In this special Mountains of Music Homecoming concert, HENDERSON, was raised and still lives in the tiny hamlet three leading bluegrass musicians—RICKY SKAGGS, of Rugby in Grayson County, Virginia. As a guitar maker LARRY SPARKS, and RALPH STANLEY II—celebrate his instruments are legendary–sought after over the the legacy of The Stanley Brothers (Carter and Ralph years by the likes of and . Stanley), natives of Clintwood, Virginia, and widely Henderson’s own finger-style guitar playing is likewise deemed among the most important bluegrass groups widely admired. He took first place 13 times at the Galax since the genre’s emergence in the mid-1940s. Fiddlers’ Convention guitar competition, and he has performed at Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of At 5:00PM, Stanley Brothers historian Gary Reid will lead “Masters of the Steel-String Guitar,” and in seven nations a videorecorded discussion with former and current and in Asia. In 1995 Henderson was awarded the National former Clinch Mountain Boys. Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Fellowship. A child prodigy on the mandolin, Skaggs joined the WILL JONES was a talented guitarist from a young age, Clinch Mountain Boys in 1971. After backing up Dr. Ralph receiving accolades at junior guitar competitions. After on numerous classic recordings, Skaggs left the Clinch learning his chops in their family band the Cana Ramblers, Mountain Boys by 1975, joining J. D. Crowe’s band, The Will now contributes acoustic guitar and lead vocals to New South, and beginning his foray into progressive banjoist ’s band, the Dukes of Drive. bluegrass. The recipient of numerous Grammy and IBMA Awards, Skaggs in recent years has dedicated himself to the Born in Galax, Virginia, BRANDON DAVIS learned fiddle repertoire and styles associated with traditional bluegrass. tunes and bluegrass standards from his father, Gary Davis. In 1997 he won the prestigious Wayne Henderson In 1964, Larry Sparks joined The Stanley Brothers at age guitar championship. In 2005 Brandon took top honors 17. As a vocalist and guitarist for the Clinch Mountain at the South Carolina State Guitar Championship. More Boys, Sparks recorded several classic bluegrass songs, recently he won the Doc Watson Guitar Championship, including “Sharecropper’s Son” and “I Only Exist.” In held at Merlefest. 1969, Sparks left Dr. Ralph’s band to form his own group, the Lonesome Ramblers. Sparks was named This concert celebrates the release of The Crooked Male Vocalist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Road’s new CD compilation of current and historic Music Association in 2004 and 2005, and in 2015 he was guitarists entitled A Century of Heritage Guitar Music. inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.

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Unlike his famous banjo-playing father, Ralph Stanley For several decades Scott County, Virginia-native RICH II embraced the guitar, inspired by the legacy of his KIRBY has been uplifting old-time mountain music as a guitar-playing uncle, Carter Stanley. Joining his father’s performer, radio host, record producer, and workshop band in 1995 as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, leader. He performs many kinds of old-time music, Ralph II subsequently won many fans through his including ballads, many of which he learned from sincere commitment to traditional bluegrass and has his grandmother, traditional singer Addie Graham, received many Grammy Award nominations. In 2016, who lived in eastern Kentucky. During the 1970s he his father bestowed upon him the honor of continuing performed with John McCutcheon and Tom Bledsoe as to use the family band-name, and now the son tours as the trio known as Wry Straw. Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys. KAY JUSTICE, a talented folk and old-time singer, Catch the Floyd Radio Show at 2:00PM at the Moss lives in Wytheville, Virginia. She has a rich repertoire Arts Center Cube. of traditional songs and ballads, and she is equally compelling when singing solo and as part of a duo. In the latter role, she has recorded three critically acclaimed albums as a duo with Ginny Hawker, Signs & Wonders, Come All You Tenderhearted and Bristol: A Tribute to the Music of the Original Carter Family. Justice has shared her singing abilities and repertoire as a master artist with the Apprenticeship Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

CAROL ELIZABETH JONES is a songwriter and an acclaimed traditional singer with many albums to her credit, including two as part of the folk duo Jones and Leva, two of country and bluegrass duets with Laurel Bliss, an album with Hazel Dickens and Ginny Hawker, and a solo album entitled Cataloochee. Jones has also been included on several anthologies, including the best-selling O Sister: Women In Bluegrass and the award-winning On Top of Old Smoky: New Old- Time Smoky Mountain Music. Jones was a regular on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion during 2006-07. Her ballad singing will be showcased on a compilation of Appalachian balladry to be released by the Association in 2017. ARCHIE FISHER, RICH KIRBY, KAY JUSTICE, CAROL ELIZABETH JONES Zone Reference 7:00PM • $12 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Hosted by: Mountain Lake Lodge Location: Mountain Lake Lodge, Gazebo Lawn (Mary’s east Barn rain location), 115 Hotel Circle, Pembroke west central Bring a lawn chair or blanket

This concert also brings “The Year We Sang” 2017 Homecoming theme to life through outstanding interpreters of ballad and traditional songs from four master tradition bearers, who will share their stories and songs in a beautiful setting beside Mountain Lake.

ARCHIE FISHER is a Scottish folk singer and songwriter of legendary status. A native of Glasgow, Scotland, he grew up in a musical family, listening to opera and vaudeville as schedule also well as traditional ballads and Gaelic songs. He recorded his first album in 1968, and thereafter he performed as a backing musician (on guitar) and arranger for the Tommy available online Makem and duo. Fisher has continued to produce acclaimed recordings ever since, including Sunsets I’ve Galloped Into, which was spotlighted on mtnsofmusic.com/2017-schedule National Public Radio. Fans worldwide love his distinctive and warm singing voice.

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Ronni Lundy Amythyst Kiah Photo by Pableaux Johnson Pableaux by Photo

The Feastival at Primland, prepared by Executive Chef The feastivAl at primland: Ernest Bledsoe, will feature game and fish dishes, locally-sourced produce, and the resort’s famous Appalachian elegance “pig candy,” crisp bacon strips cooked in Virginia maple syrup and brown sugar, then piqued with 5:30 PM • $125 cayenne pepper. The forest-to-table meal will include Hosted by: Primland ingredients foraged from the mountainsides such as Sponsored by: Blue Ridge Beverage, Virginia Tourism ramps or morel mushrooms, blackberries, or spring Corporation onions gathered from the fields. Location: Primland, 2000 Busted Rock Rd, Meadows of Dan After learning a bit about the history of Primland, our featured speaker, renowned food writer, Ronni Lundy, Spectacular is the only word to describe a will entertain and enlighten us with stories of mouth- Homecoming Feastival at Primland, Patrick watering mountain victuals (pronounced “vittles” and County’s magnificent mountain resort. Come enjoy the title of her recent book, Victuals: An Appalachian Appalachian haute cuisine in a historic hunting Journey with Recipes). She will also tell us how preserve, where we’ll celebrate Appalachia’s cutting Appalachian food has become one the country’s most edge cuisine—and its music, of course. Located celebrated regional cuisines within the world of haute on 12,000 acres near the Blue Ridge Parkway, this cuisine. Guests will also hear from ‘Round the Mountain luxurious estate encompasses mountain vistas, woods, juried artisan Ann Childress about the handcrafted and fields that are home to abundant wildlife. The remembrance she created for each guest to take home. nearby Dan River brims with native trout. Driving the seven-mile entrance road into Primland offers views Capping off this evening of cutting edge Appalachian that leave you gasping, yet also provides a forest creativity is a concert by singer-songwriter Amythyst haven that gives you a sense of tranquility. Kiah, who embodies the Mountains of Music Homecoming theme of “The Year We Sang.” Like One of Primland’s primary commitments is good Primland, Amythyst honors old musical traditions, but stewardship of this mountain land. Natural, local materials in the most innovative ways. She describes herself as a were used in construction of the lodge, which won best “Southern Gothic, alt-country singer/songwriter,” designed resort in the world in 2015 by Travel and Leisure and she accompanies her powerful voice with guitar magazine and is also a LEED-certified resort for “green” and clawhammer banjo. One music writer proclaimed building techniques. With a nod to local farms, a giant silo that “Kiah is an important and innovative presence in anchors the lodge and houses the powerful telescope that contemporary traditional music.” searches dark skies to reveal planets and galaxies to guests. After the dinner and concert, tours of the main lodge After cocktails outdoors, surrounded by music from and observatory will be available and the Pub will be along The Crooked Road, guests will enjoy a sumptuous open for after-glow conversations. Join us at Primland meal at the Stables Saloon, a charming dining space in for an elegant summer evening! the old stables of the original property.

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ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS

7:30PM • $15 ADVANCE • $20 AFTER MAY 31 • $10 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Hosted by: Pulaski Theatre Location: 14 West Main St., Pulaski

Master Scottish fiddlerALASDAIR FRASER has been a major force behind the resurgence of traditional Scottish fiddling in his homeland and the U.S., inspiring legions of listeners and learners through his recordings, annual fiddle camps, and concerts. His repertoire spans several centuries of Scottish music and includes his own compositions, combining profound understanding of the Scottish tradition with cutting- edge musical explorations. His film credits include solo performances on the soundtracks of The Last of the Mohicans and Titanic. Fraser performs in concert as a Lost & Found, New Standard soloist and with skilled cellist NATALIE HAAS. Bluegrass

7:30PM • $15 ADVANCE • $20 AFTER MAY 31 $10 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Hosted by: Harvester Performance Center Location: 450 Franklin St., Rocky Mount

In bluegrass, LOST & FOUND has managed to stand out with a signature sound, great singing and songwriting, and uniquely creative instrumental work. Formed in 1973 in Martinsville, Virginia, Lost & Found originated with musicians that were “lost” in other bands, but “found” each other through their shared love of bluegrass. The band recorded its first album in 1975 for a local label, which produced the now bluegrass standard “Love of the Mountains,” written by founder and original member, Allen Mills. When new groups come along as talented as New Standard it creates a lot of excitemen. They bring all the ingredients you want in great bluegrass - soaring harmonies, blazing picking, and the drive the defines the genre. MARK O’CONNOR featuring the o’connor band

7:00PM & 9:00PM (2 SHOWS) • $30 TICKET (PER SHOW) Hosted by: Floyd Country Store Location: 206 South Locust St., Floyd

At age 13 MARK O’CONNOR won the Grand Master Fiddler Championship followed by national titles on fiddle, mandolin, and guitar. Today O’Connor is considered among the greatest living players on the instrument. After recording approximately 45 albums on his own that have sold millions of copies, O’Connor and his family band won Best Bluegrass Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards for their new recording Coming Home.

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DALE JETT, a native of Scott County, Virginia, is a third generation member of the legendary Carter Family, son of Janette Carter and the grandson of A. P. and . The ensemble Hello Stranger--which features Dale on vocals and guitar, his wife Teresa on bass, and Oscar Harris on autoharp, guitar, mandolin, and vocals—is wonderfully adept at authentic interpretations of the music of the Original Carter Family, resulting in a true Appalachian Americana experience.

JOHNNY AND JEANETTE WILLIAMS have performed at numerous bluegrass festivals in the Southeastern US as well as overseas. They both won the Chris Austin Songwriter Contest for bluegrass at Merlefest. Jeanette has received four Female Vocalist of the Year awards from SPBGMA. Great singing, songwriting and hard driving bluegrass is this band’s trademark. Dale jett & hello stranger, This concert is part of the free Mountains of Music on Main celebration which starts at 3:00PM with concerts on Main Street by Olen and Frances Gardner and Friends, Indian Run johnny & jeanette williams String Band, Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder, and Mike Mitchell. Floyd Jam and Floyd Music School will also perform. 7:00PM • $10 ADVANCE • $15 AFTER MAY 31 A variety of food trucks, beer and wine will also be available. • $7.50 CHILDREN (12 & UNDER) Hosted by: Montgomery Museum Location: The Celtic Hall on Main St., 100 W. Main Street, Christiansburg

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Crooked Road Royalty and Musical Styles 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE “Crooked Road Royalty and Musical Styles” showcases the long history of picking and singing in the mountains while showcasing the careers of the Hill Billies, the Stoneman Family, the Carter Family, and the Stanley Brothers, four Virginia groups that helped build the American country music industry, and explores the rich variety of roots music western Virginians sing and play while featuring rare film footage and photographs of historic Crooked Road musicians.

Blue Ridge Institute and Museum 20 Museum Drive, Ferrum, VA 24088 [email protected] 540-365-4412 Quilt Exhibit 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE An exhibit of handmade quilts and quilted items will be on display at Quilted Colors for public viewing.

Quilted Colors 107 N. Main St, Stuart, VA 24171 [email protected] 276-629-8384 Guitar and Fiddle Making and Jamming 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE Tour a working guitar and fiddle maker’s workshop and participate in impromptu jam sessions on a picking porch overlooking the Little River. There will be instruments on display as well as instruments under construction.

Windy Hill GuitarWorks, River Farm Studios 446 Sowers Mill Dam Rd., Riner, VA 24149 Location is actually in Floyd County [email protected] 703-731-6846

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Exhibition: From These Woods Grown, Bottled, & Sold in SW Willis Gap Community Center Open 10:00AM - 5:30PM • FREE Exploring the dynamic relationship between Virginia--a JBR Vineyard & Winery Jam humanity, the natural world, and the creative Tour 7:00PM impulse, this exhibition features handmade Willis Gap Community Center has been holding 4:00 - 6:00PM • $1.00 PER TASTE, $5.00/ 5 works created by highly skilled artists jams for about 19 years. Open jam is every OUNCE CUP, CASH ONLY throughout the Appalachian region. Artists Friday Night at 7:00pm, except in bad weather, Enjoy wine from the first vineyards and Farm working in a number of artistic styles and with all ages of singers, musicians, and all Winery in Pulaski and Giles Counties. We are practices, including woodturning, carving, ages in the audience. Dancing is permitted!! a small, family run operation. JBR Vineyards basketry, and furniture making, will be featured. Concessions available. produces only classic wine grapes that are100% Among the artists represented are John locally grown. All of our wines are locally hand- Albright (Blacksburg, Virginia), Alexander crafted. Come enjoy a wine tasting, a vineyard Bannan (Roanoke, Virginia), and Shanti Yard Willis Gap Community Center tour, and a chance to meet our vineyard (Floyd, Virginia), artists from the Phoenix 144 The Hollow Road, Ararat, VA 24053 mascot, Bubba the dog. Hardwoods collective, among others. [email protected] 276-251-8548

JBR Vineyards & Winery Moss Arts Center Galleries 8205 Little River Dam Rd, Radford, VA 24141 190 Alumni Mall Virginia Tech, [email protected] Blacksburg, VA 24061 540-250-7293 [email protected] 540-231-5300

Woodworking Shop Open House east 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE west central Stuart Farmers’ Market Visit our woodworking shop and see how 8:00AM - 12:00PM • FREE we make furniture from Local Virginia Weekly farmers’ market featuring a great hardwoods! We start with trees originally selection of locally grown vegetables and fruits, for firewood, mill them, and dry slabs both baked items, meats, eggs and handmade crafts. outdoors & in a kiln. Our one-of-a-kind Henry Reed Memorial Fiddlers On 6/17, music will be provided by the F.A.R.M. finely finished furniture is made with much T.E.A.M., an acronym for the Free Alliance of traditional joinery. Woodworking demos Convention Recalcitrant Musicians Totally Eclectic About all day. From Slab Stools, to Beds, Tables, 6:00 – 10:00PM • $8 PER PERSON PER Music. Enjoy a rollicking good time as this and Cutting Boards, there’s something for DAY, CAMPING IS AN ADDITIONAL $10 PER band’s musical couples Charlie and Mary Jo everyone! PERSON PER DAY Leet and Rory and Gayle McTighe serve up Annual music festival to celebrate the life and traditional American music. music of local old-time fiddler Henry Reed, PHOENIX HARDWOODS - Woodworking who lived in Glen Lyn, VA. This is the 15th year Shop of the festival that features bluegrass and old- Stuart Farmers Market 2540 Floyd Hwy North, Floyd, VA 24091 time band concerts on Friday evening and then 320 Chestnut Avenue, Stuart VA 24171 [email protected] individual and band competitions on Saturday [email protected] 540-745-6403 (both bluegrass and old-time). Food and crafts 276-229-9917 vendors are available. This is a family friendly event and an official Crooked Road Affiliated Between the Rows of Corn... Festival. Quilt Exhibit 2:00 - 5:00PM • FREE 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE The same plowed ground that provided corn See listing description under June 9. and beans to generations of Floyd Countians is Newport Recreation Center also a rich source of Indian artifacts. The 2017 434 Blue Grass Trail, Newport, VA 24128 Old Church Gallery exhibit surveys artifacts [email protected] Between the Rows of Corn... collected by gardeners and farmers throughout 703-967-0155 10:00AM - 1:00PM • FREE the county. These tools offer glimpses into the See listing description under June 9. lives of the people who shaped and used them thousands of years ago. Floyd Country Store’s Friday Guitar and Fiddle Making and Night Jamboree Jamming Old Church Gallery 6:30PM $6 GENERAL ADMISSION 110 Wilson Street, Floyd, VA 24091 The Floyd Country Store has become a 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE [email protected] traditional gathering place on Friday nights for See listing description under June 9. 540-745-2979 musicians, dancers, and visitors from all over the world and is an outstanding and authentic Crooked Road Royalty and Musical experience shared by old-timers and new visitors. Country Living magazine identified Styles the Floyd County Store as one of the two 10:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE best places in the country to hear bluegrass See listing description under June 9. music (the other place was a club in New York City). At the Jamboree, we’re all very proud of and grateful to the musicians who bring their Exhibition: From These Woods schedule also instruments and their talent to the store every 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE week. See listing description under June 9. available online The Floyd Country Store Woodworking Shop Open House mtnsofmusic.com/2017-schedule 206 S Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE [email protected] See listing description under June 9. 540-745-4563

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Ballads

Arguably the most enduring artifacts from the early days of European settlement in Appalachia, ballads are still sung in households and on festival stages along The Crooked Road. Indeed, balladry has long been a living tradition, reinventing itself over the years and engaging new audiences along the way.

A ballad is a narrative song—a song that tells a story. Ballads are structured by means of a recurrent melody-line repeated through a series of thematically linked verses. Whether sung from memory or from a written-out set of lyrics, ballads generally feature verses four lines in length, with the second and fourth lines typically rhyming. In some ballads, a chorus or refrain is utilized between verses. In Appalachia, the traditional performance style for singing ballads is often characterized as impersonal and emotionally restrained, though some singers in the past (and many in the present) have animated their performances of ballads with vocal colorations and physical gestures.

Many ballads still sung in Appalachia (such as “Barbara Allen” and “Lord Bateman”) were originally crafted by British balladeers in the oral tradition, while other ballads (including “Four Nights Drunk” and “Mary of the Wild Moor”) descended from British broadsides (that is, pieces of paper offering mechanically typeset or handwritten lyrics of commercially-sold narrative songs, written by known or anonymous ). Emigrants to the New World continued to sing British ballads, albeit in changed form because reinterpretation was inevitable in an oral tradition. From colonial times into the early twentieth century, singing British ballads was a favorite activity among people in the Appalachian frontier because this beloved tradition served to entertain and enlighten listeners in close-knit communities.

Many other ballads, such as “Omie Wise,” “Banks of the Ohio,” and “Tom Dula,” emerged entirely in the New World, a fact leading folklorists to call such creations “native American ballads” (referring not to North American Indians but to ballads that, while often modeled on British templates, emerged within American settings).

While many if not most ballads in Appalachia are traceable to the region’s Anglo-Celtic heritage, ballads grew out of other cultural influences. For instance, a distinctively African American tradition of ballad singing developed out of cultural interaction between blacks and whites. Such material, collectively known as “blues ballads,” included the classic “John Henry.”

Balladry as a living tradition may have declined across the English-speaking world, but its legacy in Southwest Virginia was carefully documented by such ballad scholars and collectors as Cecil Sharp, , and Arthur Kyle Davis.

Ballads have long been highly valued components of the traditional music repertoire in many Appalachian communities. Historically, some singers (such as Jane Gentry of Hot Springs, North Carolina) could recount dozens of different ballads from memory. And some families (such as the Ritchie family of Viper, Kentucky) knew hundreds of ballads. The Crooked Road area in Southwest Virginia has been home to renowned ballad singers both past (including Gladden, Fields Ward, and E. C. Ball) and present (for instance, Kay Justice, Rich Kirby, Elizabeth LaPrelle, and Corbin Hayslett).

Ted Olson is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife, a study of Blue Ridge culture, and a Grammy Award-nominated music historian.

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Booktalk and Bluegrass Music on the Lawn Concert Series 11:00AM - 2:00PM • FREE featuring the McKenzies We will be having author Sharyn McCrumb Zone Reference come to give a booktalk on her new book and 7:00 – 8:30PM • FREE to share how she weaves local culture into Woody and Marcia McKenzie have been her novels. She states on her website that she playing together since 1983. Long-time east residents of the (Virginia), thinks of her books “like Appalachian quilts. I west central take brightly colored scraps of legends, ballads, they moved to Lynchburg in the fall of 1998, fragments of rural life, and local tragedy, and bringing with them their unique blend of I piece them together....” In addition to Ms. contemporary and original folk, traditional McCrumb, the program will feature a local music of southern Appalachia and the British bluegrass band, Highgrass, and the day will Isles, children’s music, funny songs, and even include other cultural, family-friendly activities. some swing and standards for all ages. A Taste of Giles Charles and Ona B. Free Memorial Library 2:00 – 7:00PM • FREE Christiansburg Public Library 300 Giles Avenue, Dublin, VA 24084 Free wine tasting, music, and vineyard tours 125 Sheltman Street, Christiansburg, VA 24073 [email protected] [email protected] 540-674-2856 540-382-6965 Giles Mountain Vineyard and Winery 290 Moye Rd, Staffordsville, VA 24167 Grown, Bottled, & Sold in SW [email protected] Virginia--a JBR Vineyard & Winery 540-267-4126 Tour “Court Days..making music and 11:00AM - 5:00PM • $1.00 PER TASTE, $5.00/ 5 OUNCE CUP, CASH ONLY memories” Guitar and Fiddle Making and See listing description under June 9. 3:00 - 9:00PM • FREE Court Days is a long standing cultural event Jamming The Floyd Country Store’s in Franklin Co. and is remembered as a day of 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE meeting friends, making music, trading goods See listing description under June 9. Americana Afternoons and “taking care of business”. Court Days 2017, in Downtown Rocky Mount, features local and 12:00PM • FREE Enjoy Saturday lunch at The Floyd Country headliner traditional music bands, storytelling, Woodworking Shop Open House Store along with Americana Afternoons. The family friendly games, vintage car display, tours 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE music is varied, but has the common thread of of the historical Early Inn, and multiple food See listing description under June 9. Americana: traditional . Some and craft vendors. Join us and make your own of it is indigenous, including bluegrass, or the Franklin County memory! music of contemporary singer-songwriters: you “Mountain Music Down on the might hear the blues, or some of the Celtic or Farm” African sounds that underpin our American folk Downtown Rocky Mount 12:00 - 2:00PM OUTDOOR ADVENTURES traditions. Franklin Street, Downtown, Rocky Mount, VA 24151 • 2:00 - 5:00PM BLUEGRASS CONCERT • [email protected] FREE • $5 DONATION SUGGESTED 540-814-0694 Apple Ridge Farm showcases the biodiversity, The Floyd Country Store scenic beauty and cultural traditions of 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 the Blue Ridge Mountains. The community [email protected] Henry Reed Memorial Fiddlers concert will showcase 3 bluegrass bands, 540-745-4563 plus an open jam session at the end for Convention musicians to play bluegrass and traditional 3:00 – 10:00PM • $8 PER PERSON PER music together. Aquatic studies at our creek DAY, CAMPING IS AN ADDITIONAL $10 PER and pond and guided walks on our 5 miles of schedule also available online PERSON PER DAY hiking trails to explore the Appalachian forests See listing description under June 9. will be offered. The 60 foot observation tower mtnsofmusic.com will be open to view the long mountain vistas OldTown Fields Bluegrass into the surrounding SWVA counties. Concert Tracing Our Roots: A Tour of 6:00 – 10:00PM • $5 PER ADULT, UNDER 12 Apple Ridge Farm FREE 9230 Pine Forest Road, Copper Hill, VA 24079 Laurel Branch Road An outdoor concert and bluegrass festival [email protected] 1:00 – 4:00PM • $20 showcasing Shawsville and featuring Mountain 540-365-1504 The tour begins in the Topeco community and Music with local and regional bands. A full explores the scenic 7.8 miles of Laurel Branch sized football field ensures plenty of room Road and about five miles of Floyd Hwy S as for all family and friends for the evening. A the bus tour returns to its starting point. Learn family friendly event with a “Kids Zone”. Food about the area’s Revolutionary and Civil War and beer trucks will be at event. Provided by history, in addition to other stories, through the the Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation written narrative provided by the tour’s creator dedicated to improving the community of and guide, Janet Slusher Keith, who grew up on Eastern Montgomery County. a Virginia Century Farm on Laurel Branch Road.

OldTown Fields Topeco Church of the Brethren OldTown Road, Shawsville, Virginia (use of church bus for tour originating here) [email protected] 3460 Floyd Highway S, Floyd, VA 24091 540-384-2801 [email protected] 540-789-7552

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Americana Afternoon with The The Floyd Radio Show, On the Road Woodworking Shop Open House White Top Mountain Band 2:00 – 4:00PM • $15 GENERAL ADMISSION, 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE $10 STUDENTS AND YOUTH AGES 18 AND See listing description under June 9. 1:00 – 4:00PM • FREE UNDER Chateau Morrisette presents a special Sunday Come one, come all, as The Floyd Radio Sounds concert featuring the White Top Show, now in its sixth season, hits the road for Monday Market at Fairy Stone Mountain Band. From Grayson County, Blacksburg for the first time! Each month the State Park Virginia, the band is versatile and entertaining Floyd Country Store in Floyd, Virginia produces containing everything from fiddle/banjo a new show in this old-timey 5:00 – 7:00PM • FREE • PARKING DURING instrumentals to powerful solos and harmony format. Each program features guest hosts, and MARKET HOURS FOR SHOPPERS vocals on blues, country, honky tonk, traditional the finest musical acts from around the region; Get to know some of the locals at this Farmers’ bluegrass, old timey ballads, originals, and four from storytelling banjo players to market with locally grown in-season produce, part mountain gospel songs. Shows include flat guitarists to gospel choirs and hard-driving baked goods, home-canned foods, eggs, foot dancing. Bring your lawn chairs. Wine string bands; original radio plays and comedy plants, and more. Local musicians entertain and food available for purchase. bits; ads, jingles, and more. Don’t miss this weekly with their unique Blue Ridge Mountain chance to be part of the live studio audience! sounds. Market also includes local hand-made artisan gifts and crafts. Food truck vendor on Chateau Morrisette Winery and Restaurant site. Most of the vendors accept cash only. 291 Winery Road, SW, Floyd, Virginia 24091 Moss Arts Center, Cube Held rain or shine! [email protected] 190 Alumni Mall, Virginia Tech, 540-593-DOGS (3647) Blacksburg, VA 24061 [email protected] Fairy Stone State Park 540-231-5300 967 Fairystone Lake Drive, Stuart, VA 24171 Crooked Road Royalty and Musical [email protected] 276-930-2424 Styles The Floyd Country Store’s 1:00 - 5:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Bluegrass Music Jam Radford Fiddle and Banjo Jam 4:00PM • FREE 7:00PM • FREE Bring your instruments for a full afternoon of Weekly banjo and fiddle jam is a Crooked Road Grown, Bottled, & Sold in SW jams every Sunday at The Floyd Country Store. affiliated venue. Great food and drink in a sit Virginia--a JBR Vineyard & Winery From 4:00pm – 5:30pm we have a Bluegrass down restaurant accompany the weekly jam Music Jam. A Old-Time Music Jam takes place from 7-10 pm Tour prior to at 1:30 PM Every Sunday. 1:00 - 5:00PM • $1.00 PER TASTE, $5.00/ 5 OUNCE CUP, CASH ONLY River City Grill See listing description under June 9. The Floyd Country Store 103 Third Ave, Radford, VA 24141 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 [email protected] [email protected] 540-629-2130 Flag Day Celebration at Historic 540-745-4563 Smithfield 1:00 – 6:00PM (CONCERT 4:30-5:30PM) Open Mic Night at Dogtown • $8 PER PERSON, INCLUDING HOUSE 6:00 – 10:00 PM • FREE TOURS, CONCERT, AND SPECIAL OUTSIDE Dogtown Roadhouse holds a weekly Open DEMONSTRATIONS Mic Night every Sunday night. This is arguably The Annual Flag Day Celebration at Smithfield one of the best open mic nights along the is an interactive celebration with blacksmith Crooked Road, attracting excellent musicians Crooked Road Royalty and Musical and craft demonstrations, living history camp and talented amateurs. About fifteen time slots and cannon firing, house tours, and special are available but they fill up very quickly as the Styles historic flag display around the grounds of event is very popular with local performers. 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE Smithfield. We also host a bluegrass concert This family-friendly event is presented in a See listing description under June 9. in the pavilion at the end of the day. Indian comfortable, interactive atmosphere. Run String and other local favorites have been invited to perform and we always have a square Quilt Exhibit dance caller in case people wish to dance. Dogtown Roadhouse 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE 302 S. Locust St., Floyd, VA 24091 See listing description under June 9. [email protected] Historic Smithfield 540-745-6836 1000 Smithfield Plantation Road, Exhibition: From These Woods Blacksburg, VA 24060 10:00AM - 5:30PM • FREE [email protected] See listing description under June 9. 540-231-3947 Woodworking Shop Open House Old Time Music Jam 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE 1:30PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Bring your instruments for a full afternoon of Crooked Road Royalty and Musical jams every Sunday at The Floyd Country Store. From 1:30pm – 3:30pm we have an Old-Time Styles Stuart Farmers’ Market Music Jam hosted by Mac Traynham and 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE 3:00 - 6:00PM • FREE special guests. A Bluegrass Music Jam follows See listing description under June 9. See listing description under June 10. at 4 PM Every Sunday Quilt Exhibit The Floyd Country Store 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE schedule also available online 206 S Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 See listing description under June 9. [email protected] mtnsofmusic.com 540-745-4563

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Appalachian Heritage at The Narrows on the New River 5:30 - 9:00PM Marketplace These are events highlighting the local 4:00 – 8:00PM • FREE nature of Narrows, Virginia on the New River: Enjoy fresh produce and dinner at The Thursday evening - regular jam session at the Marketplace as we celebrate Appalachian Macarthur Inn with country dinner; Saturday music and crafts. - Old time gospel music and strings with Eldon Justice and band; Jim Costa banjo rendition and workshop of Historic Train Station music; Dept of Agriculture representative 20 South Washington Ave., Pulaski, VA 24301 lecture and photo display of the Narrows, [email protected] Virginia Peter’s Mountain Mallow (the rarest 540-674-1991 and most endangered wild flower on the face of the earth) Ralph Robertson gives kayaking demonstration and rollover lessons at the duck Campo Verde Weekly Old-time pond; Henry Reed music workshop, Teababy Music Jam Reed, Old time mountain music jam session with flat foot competitions of 3 age groups 7:00 – 9:00PM • FREE with trophies; Right Turn Clyde with string This is a weekly old-time music jam. It is open music, country cooking cookoff and sample to everyone, we welcome people to come join tastings of their premier beers. in. It has been held for 3 years.

MacArthur Inn Campo Verde Mexican Grill 117 MacArthur Lane, Narrows, Virginia 24124 165 Kinter Way, Pearisburg, VA 24134 [email protected] [email protected] Woodworking Shop Open House 540-726-7510 703-967-0155 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Community Barn Dance featuring “Pulaski’s Old Time Bluegrass The Wildmans and Back Porch Market Square Jam Jamboree” 8:00 – 10:00PM • FREE 6:00 – 8:00PM • FREE Cloggers Blacksburg’s Market Square Jam is an official Folks are welcome to join in the regular, 7:00 – 9:00PM • FREE Crooked Road affiliated venue that provides weekly Old Time Bluegrass Jamboree. Bring Bring your favorite dancin’ shoes and kick up fun and entertainment. Catering to traditional your instrument and join in or come enjoy the your heels at our Community Barn Dance! old time music, the Market Square Jam brings music and join the choir as we play (and sing) Dance the evening away to the sounds of regional musicians together to pick a tune, wonderful old-time bluegrass. The Wildmans, a Floyd County based youth enjoy fun times with their friends and family, bluegrass band that impresses audiences and take in all that downtown Blacksburg with their unbelievably skilled musicianship has to offer. Bring chairs and/or blankets for Pulaski Senior Center and strong vocals. The Back Porch Cloggers, seating. 106 N. Washington Avenue also based in Floyd County, will be around to Pulaski, VA 24301 showcase and teach some of their traditional [email protected] mountain dance moves. Light snacks and Market Square Park 540-994-8631 beverages will be available for purchase. 100 Draper Road, NW (On the corner of Draper Bring the entire family for an evening of old- Road and Roanoke Street), fashioned song and dance! Blacksburg VA 24060 Dinner and Mountain Music Jam [email protected] 6:30PM • FREE MUSIC • CHARGE FOR 540-961-1199 DINNER IF YOU CHOOSE TO EAT The Barn at Chantilly Farm Every Thursday evening, an open music 2697 Franklin Pike SE, Floyd, VA 24091 jam session takes place in the lobby (and [email protected] sometimes on the front porch) of the beautiful 540-353-5898 MacArthur Inn in downtown Narrows. Dinner is open from 5:30-8 in the adjoining dining room, and the music jam starts at 6:30 and continues until 9. Crooked Road Royalty and Musical MacArthur Inn Styles 117 MacArthur Lane, Narrows, VA 24124 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE [email protected] Crooked Road Royalty and Musical See listing description under June 9. 540-726-7510 Styles Quilt Exhibit 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Quilt Exhibit Exhibition: From These Woods 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. 10:00AM - 5:30PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. Exhibition: From These Woods Woodworking Shop Open House 10:00AM - 5:30PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9.

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4th Annual Bushels and Barrels Stuart Farmers’ Market 8:00AM - 12:00PM • FREE Sustainability Conference See listing description under June 10. 9:00AM - 5:00PM • $10 PER SESSION • $40 FOR THE ENTIRE DAY’S CONFERENCE Plan to attend the Reynolds Homestead’s Quilt Exhibit Sustainability Conference, an excellent chance 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE to learn more about self-sufficiency and See listing description under June 9. living a more sustainable life. There will be up to 10 workshop sessions to choose from throughout the day, on topics from gardening Between the Rows of Corn... and preserving to wind power and off-the-grid 10:00AM - 1:00PM • FREE sustainability. See listing description under June 9.

Reynolds Homestead Pearisburg Festival in the Park Guitar and Fiddle Making and 463 Homestead Lane, Critz, VA 24082 6:00 - 11:00PM • FREE [email protected] The 33rd annual Pearisburg Festival in the Jamming 276-694-7181 x 22 Park welcomes families & friends to enjoy 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE live entertainment, local & regional crafters, See listing description under June 9. amusement rides, food, car show, firetruck Crooked Road Royalty and Musical rides, traveling exhibits, & much more. Free admission to this two day event- it’s sure to be Exhibition: From These Woods Styles fun for the whole family! 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. See listing description under June 9. Pearisburg Community Center & Town Park 1410 Wenonah Avenue, Pearisburg, VA 24134 Mary Draper Ingles Weekend Quilt Exhibit [email protected] 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE 9:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE 540-921-1222 Ingles Farm Open House - See Mary Draper See listing description under June 9. Ingles statue, obelisk, permanent display at Floyd Country Store’s Friday Glencoe Museum Guitar and Fiddle Making and Night Jamboree Jamming Ingles Farm + other related sites 6:30PM • $6 GENERAL ADMISSION 9 Wilderness Road, Radford, VA 24141 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE The Floyd Country Store has become a [email protected] See listing description under June 9. traditional gathering place on Friday nights for 540-267-3153 musicians, dancers, and visitors from all over Exhibition: From These Woods the world and is an outstanding and authentic experience shared by old-timers and new Virginia Covered Bridge Festival 10:00AM - 5:30PM • FREE visitors. Country Living magazine identified 10:00AM - 4:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 9. the Floyd County Store as one of the two Showcasing the Jack’s Creek Covered Bridge best places in the country to hear bluegrass and the former site of the Bob White Covered Between the Rows of Corn... music (the other place was a club in New York Bridge, the festival features 2 stages of music City). At the Jamboree, we’re all very proud of with 8 music groups, ranging from eclectic 2:00 - 5:00PM • FREE and grateful to the musicians who bring their entertainers to old-time or traditional groups. See listing description under June 9. instruments and their talent to the store every Other events include horse and wagon week. rides, 5K run, children’s area, The Sons of Woodworking Shop Open House Confederate Veterans program, and local and regional hand-crafters as well as local non- 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE The Floyd Country Store profit representatives, historians and covered See listing description under June 9. 206 S Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 bridge lovers. Food and drink vendors are at [email protected] both sites. 5th Annual Bushels and Barrels 540-745-4563

Local Food Wine and Beer Festival Willis Gap Community Center Open Jacks Creek Covered Bridge and the former 6:00 - 10:00PM • $15 ADV, $20 GATE • VIP site of Bob White $40 (BOTH NIGHTS: FRI AND SAT) Jam Route 8, Jacks Creek Road, Woolwine, VA Bushels and Barrels is a two-day festival 7:00PM [email protected] celebrating all things local featuring local See listing description under June 9. 276-692-7949 music, foods, and craft beer and wine. Local artists and artisans will have booths set up with items ranging from handmade soaps, jewelry, Crooked Road Royalty and Musical art, wooden bowls, glass and other unique Styles items and products from local farms and greenhouses. This fun event is set against the 10:00AM - 5:00PM • FREE stunning vistas at the Reynolds Homestead. schedule also available online See listing description under June 9. mtnsofmusic.com Reynolds Homestead 463 Homestead Lane, Critz, VA 24082 [email protected]

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Jubal Early Homeplace Tours Bluegrass with Sam & Emma A Taste of Giles 11:00AM – 1:30PM • FREE 2:00 – 7:00PM • FREE including “Pickin’ on the Porch” Encourage and support our young artists Sam See listing description under June 10. 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE, DONATIONS & Emma as they provide bluegrass while you ACCEPTED shop and enjoy refreshments. Sam & Emma The Jubal Early Homeplace and grounds will Pendleton are 11 year old twins and enjoy Zephyr Lightning Bolts and The be open for a day of tours, educational talks, the banjo and guitar respectively. Preparing Shelton Brothers and string music. A Civil War Living History for their second appearance in Galax, they exhibit will be on the grounds and tours of the always enjoy sharing their talent and learning 5:00PM OPEN MIC • 6:00PM SHOW • FREE • Home and Office will be conducted by docents from their public. Feel free to bring your own DONATIONS ACCEPTED in period attire. Jubal Early is most noted for instrument and set a spell! Patrick County Music Association presents his role as a General in the Civil War, but his the Zephyr Lightning Bolts and The Shelton pursuits before and after are quite vast and will Brothers at a concert at the Rotary Building. be discussed during your visit. Mattie B’s on Main 105 N Main St, Stuart, VA 24171 [email protected] Rotary Building, Rotary Field Jubal Early Homplace 276-694-4438 420 Woodland Dr., Stuart, VA 24171 455 Old Hollow Lane, Hardy, VA 24101 [email protected] [email protected] 276-694-4232 540-529-2229 Narrows on the New River 11:30AM - 9:30PM The Floyd Country Store Old Time Woodworking Shop Open House See listing description under June 15. 10:00AM – 5:00PM • FREE Dance with The New Ballards See listing description under June 9. The Floyd Country Store’s Branch Bogtrotters Americana Afternoons 7:30PM • $5 GENERAL ADMISSION Join us for an Old Time Dance with the New Pearisburg Festival in the Park 12:00PM • FREE Ballard Branch Bogtrotters. About 25 years ago 10:30AM - 11:00PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. a group of Galax, VA musicians formed The See listing description under June 16. New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters and play in the traditional Appalachian string-band style 5th Annual Bushels and Barrels Tracing Our Roots: A Tour of often playing for square dances around the region. Old time music is alive and well, and Local Food Wine and Beer Festival Laurel Branch Road continues to attract fans of all ages. 11:00AM - 5:00PM • $15 ADV, $20 GATE • 1:00 – 4:00PM • $20 VIP $40 (BOTH NIGHTS: FRI AND SAT) See listing description under June 10. See listing description under June 16. The Floyd Country Store 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 [email protected] 540-745-4563

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