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Wilderness Road Blockhouse Celebrating Appalachia 1PM -5PM • FREE 6:30PM • DONATIONS Tour the Anderson Blockhouse with a period Dance concert including five pieces (Growing dressed interpreters from the Daniel Boone up Appalachia, Oppressing Appalachia, east Wilderness Trail Association. The Blockhouse Praying Appalachia, Healing Appalachia, and west central was built in 1775 on the North Fork of the Engaging Appalachia) that celebrate the Holston by John Anderson and became a culture, traditions, spirit of the mountains. landmark along the Wilderness Road. Over the next thirty years, some 300,000 people passed Anderson’s home on their journey Emory and Henry College Duck pond westward. 30461 Garnand Dr., Emory, VA 24327 Contact: [email protected], (423) 895-2012 Farmers Market by Ted Olson Natural Tunnel State Park 9AM – 12PM • FREE 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Bluegrass/Old Time Music Jam Local growers, farmers, bakers and craftsmen Duffield, VA 24244 6:30PM – 8:30PM • DONATIONS in an open air market. Come enjoy the Visitors fortunate enough to hear the John Doyle Trio Contact: Megan.krager@dcr.virginia.gov Bluegrass/Old Time music jam for all ages market with fresh coffee and events and the 276-940-1643 Central Café Glade opportunity to purchase locally produced during the Mountains of Music Homecoming will be vegetables, organic vegetables, seasonal fruits, meats, eggs, baked goods and crafts. reminded of the old but not forgotten bonds between Clintwood Farmers Market and 139 Town Square, Glade Spring, VA 24340 Appalachia and the British Isles. A native of Dublin, Roadside Show Contact: [email protected] 276-608-2578 Glade Spring Farmers Market Ireland, Doyle formerly played guitar with the Irish 1PM – 6PM • FREE Glade Spring Town Square Farmers Market with local produce, crafts, Glade Spring, VA super-group Solas and is today a leading luminary in the and other items for sale. Local artists Songcatcher Movie Contact: [email protected] traditional Celtic music revival. The John Doyle Trio— will be performing ol’ timey music along 9PM • FREE 276-429-5038 with dancing. Appalachian Sustainable The Glade Spring Library, a branch of the featuring Doyle on guitar and vocals, Duncan Wickel on Development will also be at the market with Washington County Public Library, in honor their roadside show, promoting local foods. of Mountains of Music Homecoming, will Crossing Over - A Retrospective fiddle, and David Curley on vocals, bodhran, mando, and Vendors start selling at 1:00 pm, music will show the movie “Songcatcher” . This is by Margaret Gregg banjo—will play a range of Celtic ballads, songs, and tunes, begin at 2:00 pm. an older (2000) movie which celebrates 10AM – 4PM • FREE Appalachian music. This is an outside event See listing description under June 10. and Curley will likely take a turn or two as a step dancer. and will be shown on a large movie screen. Clintwood Farmers Market Add to that the American based Irish music masters trio of 200 Chase Street, Clintwood, VA 24228 Boones Run Kayak Trip Rose Conway Flanagan, Laura Byrne, and Pat Egan as well Contact: [email protected], 276-926-4605 Glade Spring Branch Library 9AM • $15 PER PERSON 305 North Glade Street Experience the countryside of Scott County as Bristol based Sigean (pronounced She-gun), and the Glade Spring, VA 24340 Music at the Market from a view of a kayak. This 7 mile, 4 hour Contact: [email protected] extent of the connection between Ireland and Appalachia float will take guests along the slower moving 6PM • FREE 276-492-5626 Music at the Market is a free community stretch of the Clinch River. View water fowl is revealed. event that will feature traditional bluegrass and aquatic life. Near the end of the trip, concerts. Food trucks will also be open for during low water levels, there is a class II business. rapid. Pre-registration is required. 13 years of A major reason for the inclusion of these artists in the Mountains of Music Homecoming is to age or older. acknowledge the significant impact of Celtic traditions on Appalachian music. Because more Russell County/ Town of Lebanon than half of the settlers that emigrated to Appalachia came from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, the Lebanon Farmer’s Market (below the Russell Natural Tunnel State Park County Government Center) 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Celtic influence constitutes the single-most dynamic ethnic influence upon Appalachian music. The 137 Highland Dr., Lebanon, VA 24266 Duffield, VA 24244 Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] fiddle, for instance, was brought to Appalachia by settlers from Scotland and Northern Ireland, who 276-254-0153 (276) 940-2674 also brought with them fiddle tunes and ballads that continued to be played across Appalachia. Wilderness Road Blockhouse The Irish influence in Appalachia became more prominent after the 1840s when the potato blight 1PM - 5PM • FREE in Ireland forced many people into immigrating to the New World. Appalachian musicians began See listing description under June 10. reinterpreting traditional Irish hornpipes, reels, and jigs. Symbol key “Write Up the Road” COMMUNITY MEAL Tub Hike 10AM - 3PM • $58 FOR CLASSES, SONG In the mid-nineteenth century, Celtic American music merged with African American music. 8:30AM • $5 DONATION CRITIQUE AND LUNCH • $158 FOR VISUAL OR PERFORMING ARTS The Devil’s Fork Loop Trail is a beautiful CLASSES, SONG CRITIQUE, LUNCH, A Appalachian musicians of Celtic ancestry—such as the Virginian Joel Walker Sweeney—were route through an old-growth hemlock and SIGNED DALE ANN BRADLEY CD, A rhododendron forest in Jefferson National COMPLETED COPYRIGHT among the earliest white rural folk to learn banjo from African Americans, resulting in a widespread AGRITOURISM Forest featuring amazing rock formations, Bluegrass Entertainer of the Year and blending of fiddle and banjo heard in commercial minstrel shows as well as in folk ensembles. A waterfalls, swimming holes and mountain songwriter, Dale Ann Bradley and Claire PARTICIPATORY EVENT views. The 1.5 mile hike will take roughly 4 Gardiner, of the Library of Congress, with strong Scottish or Scots-Irish influence, which lingered in twentieth-century Appalachian music, hours and is strenuous; crossing the creek 12 Donna G. Sullivan, booking agent, will instruct LEARNING OPPORTUNITY times going in and out. You will be getting courses in songwriting, performing and remains evident today in the performing styles of a wide range of singers and instrumentalists from wet. Pre-registration is required. 10 years of copyright. The Crooked Road area. OUTDOOR EVENT age and up.
CULTURAL FOOD EVENT Crooked Road General Store Natural Tunnel State Park 6292 Gate City Hwy, Bristol, VA 24202 Ted Olson is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife, a study of Blue Ridge culture, and a Grammy Award- COMMUNITY MEAL 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Contact: [email protected] nominated music historian. Duffield, VA 24244 423-782-0254 Contact: (276) 940-2674
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