THE OFFICIAL Homecoming Guide

Welcome to southwest mtnsofmusic.com ALONG THE CROOKED ROAD

Welcome to the Second Annual Mountains of Music Homecoming right here in where we have a rich traditional music history. This annual event showcases the musical heritage and welcomes back folks for that homecoming celebration, highlighting the 19 counties, 4 cities, and over 50 towns along the popular Crooked Road in Virginia. We hope you will enjoy the scheduled activities that are highlighted online and in print with special music concerts that honor our major music venues, scattered across these Southwest Virginia mountains. This is still a place where you can feel the music as you enjoy the great outdoors. Please celebrate with us and make plans to attend every year. Homecomings are notorious for the great food as well, so enjoy the music, food and the cultural experiences. You will be glad that you did. Oh—and please be sure to invite your friends when you return!

— John Kilgore, President The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail

Welcome again to Southwest Virginia and The Crooked Road. I hope this message finds you a year wiser, happier, and looking forward to the second annual Mountains of Music Homecoming. This celebration of all the communities in Southwest Virginia has something for everyone:

Story telling, quilt exhibits, folk art exhibits, oxen working, wine and beer tastings, night hikes, Juneteenth celebrations, covered bridges, southern desserts, reenactments, barn dances, cannon firing, blacksmithing, wild caving, canoe paddling, square dances, geocaching, canning demonstrations, making, corn husk doll making, and LOTS of jam sessions.

And that’s just the cultural experiences. The Crooked Road concerts this year include probably the only time five of the finest bluegrass artists from Southwest Virginia may ever team up to perform as The Crooked Road All Star Bluegrass Band – of the on banjo, of Ramblers Choice on guitar, Shawn Lane and Wayne Taylor of on and bass, and former fiddler Billy Baker. Our artists from another musical heritage this year will present the music of Ireland – the John Doyle Trio, Bristol based Sigean, and a trio of American born Irish music masters in Rose Conway Flanagan, Laura Byrne, and Pat Egan.

An amazing variety of styles and repertoire will be on display at two concerts this year by twelve of the region’s guitar masters in connection with the forthcoming recording project “The Crooked Road - A Century of Heritage Guitar Music”. In case you want to play like these folks, we have two traditional music camps this year as well.

The Homecoming is also your festival gateway including several premiere music- focused festivals such as HoustonFest, Wayne Henderson Music Festival, Henry Reed Fiddlers Convention, Clinch Mountain Music Fest, Hot Fun in the Summertime Beach Music Festival, Breaks of the Mountain Music Festival, and the start of the Chautauqua Festival.

Finally, this year includes our first ever “Homecoming Feastival: A Celebration of Appalachian Creativity.” This one-day celebration of food, wine and beer, craft, visual art, and music focuses on the inspiring influence this place called Appalachia has on those who live here, whether you are a chef, artisan, musician or artist.

Like last year, we hope you take the time to discover the places in Southwest Virginia that keep these traditions alive, and take home memories that will bring a smile every time you think on them. Have a blast!

— Jack Hinshelwood, Executive Director The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail

1 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 2 Joe Wilson MARCH 16, 1938 – MAY 17, 2015

Ever since he helped create it, The Crooked Road has been blessed with Joe’s inspiration, guidance, and creativity. He will be missed Introduction: Follow the Music ...... 2 in our counsels, but his great lessons on Joe Wilson: In Loving Memory ...... 3 the value of our region’s musical heritage Sponsors ...... 5 will long be relied upon in all our future endeavors. Buy Tickets & Local Ticket Outlets ...... 7 Homecoming Overview ...... 8 A Tribute from Bill Kornrich Mission Statement & Staff ...... 11 Some 13 years ago Joe Wilson, then Executive Director About The Crooked Road ...... 13 of the National Council for the Traditional Arts, and Todd Christensen, then Associate Director for the What’s Happening At The Major Venues ...... 15 Virginia Department of Housing and Community Area Traditional Music Concerts ...... 17 Development, met at a Creative Economy conference in Asheville. That random encounter created the seed which has become The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail. Jam Sessions ...... 18 Accommodations ...... 19 Joe had an encyclopedic knowledge of music traditions and unwavering respect for the traditional musicians (and other traditional artists) of Southwest Virginia and across the nation. His life’s work West Zone: Crooked Road Concerts ...... 21 was invested in presenting and supporting these artists and the cultures which nourished them. The creation of The Crooked Road and the development of the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge The Guitar: “An Orchestra Unto Itself” ...... 24 Parkway are lasting reminders of his influence on and commitment to Southwest Virginia. West Zone: Cultural Experiences ...... 30 I have known Joe for 40 years, prior to the NCTA chapter of his life. Several of those years the two of us were at NCTA, housed in a cramped office on Dupont Circle. Working with Joe was empowering for The Celtic Influence on ...... 32 me. He gave me the freedom and responsibility to take on and direct projects and tasks which I had no Central Zone: Crooked Road Concerts ...... 39 experience in. Central Zone: Cultural Experiences ...... 43 He was at ease with all kinds of people - members of Congress, store clerks, craftspeople, wealthy How to Talk like a Southwest Virginian ...... 48 donors, auto mechanics, refugee Cambodian dancers, and occasionally even bureaucrats. I do think he most enjoyed being with the many musicians with whom he felt the strongest kinship. East Zone: Crooked Road Concerts ...... 49 How many festivals, recordings, articles, music tours across the nation and around the world did Joe produce or assist in? I think no one has kept track. I know he was looking forward to emceeing the East Zone: Cultural Experiences ...... 54 opening concert for the Mountains of Music Homecoming Festival featuring National Heritage Award Old Time and Bluegrass ...... 63 winners (of which he was one) from Southwest Virginia at the Carter Fold in June last year.

Yet with all these activities, I will most remember the impish mischievous smile, the twinkle in the eye, the crap detector glance, the baseball cap, and the vitriolic letters to those who ran afoul of his beliefs. Cantankerous? Could be. Dogmatic? That too. Impassioned? Certainly. Purist? Yep. Joe was raised in Trade in the hills of Tennessee. It is here that his lifelong passion for the music of this region began. His last years were spent in Fries in the hills of Virginia in a house he and his wife Kathy remodeled, overlooking the New River. These geographic bookends - a distance of about 50 miles as the eagle flies - encased a life rich in accomplishments, stories, and music.

3 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 4 don’t miss our homecoming

friday june 17 @ 5:30 in Abingdon

More than a meal, this is a signature, culinary and cultural event designed to feed body, soul, and imagination! Think of it as farm-to-table-plus. Along with great food, there will be music, art and artisanship. The evening’s focus is on Appalachian creativity — a hallmark of the region’s culture.

See page 28 for full details.

David & Judie Reemsnyder

FocusOne Integrated Financial Planning Lays Hardware Center for the Arts The ForestLand Group, LLC Primland Town of Marion Karen Sorber SWCC Educational Foundation

Thanks also to ‘Round the Mountain and Pro-Art Association Sheri Castle, Keynote Speaker Nell Jefferson Fredericksen, The Church Sisters, Master Artisan Orthophonic Joy Artists 5 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 6 GENERAL INFORMATION

Tickets for Crooked Road Welcome to Southwest Virginia and The Crooked Road’s second annual Mountains concerts may be purchased of Music Homecoming (MoMH). We’re excited to be in our second year and want online at mtnsofmusic.com, you to enjoy discovering what lies around each bend of The Crooked Road. Let’s at the door on the day of the start with some travel related information that may help. concert (unless sold out), and at local ticket outlets listed below. Tickets are general admission. Advance tickets to some concerts are available through May 31, 2016. Photo credit: MyMCMedia.org

Local Ticket Outlet Street Address Telephone # east WEST central The Fuller Store 289 Main St, Haysi (276) 865-4845 Giles County Chamber of Commerce 101 S Main St, Pearisburg (540) 921-5000 Reynolds Homestead Center 463 Homestead Lane, Critz (276) 694-7181 Wytheville Meeting Center 333 Community Blvd., Wytheville (276) 223-3510 Emory & Henry College, 30481 Garnand Dr., Emory (276) 944-6333 McGlothlin Center for the Arts Blue Ridge Institute & Museum 20 Museum Dr., Ferrum (540) 365-4412 Natural Tunnel State Park 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway, Duffield (276) 940-2674 Wise County Chamber of Commerce 765 Park Avenue, SW, Norton (276) 679-0961 The Region At 8,600 square miles, Southwest Virginia is about Heartwood One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon (276) 492-2400 the same size as New Jersey and includes 19 counties, Lincoln Theatre 117 E Main St, Marion (276) 783-6092 4 cities, and over 50 towns. The region has some Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller 300 S. Pepper St., Christiansburg (540) 382-5644 incredibly beautiful mountain and valley landscapes Regional Art Center and includes the two highest mountains in Virginia, Mt. Floyd County Tourism Office 109 East Main St., Floyd (540) 745-4407 Rogers (elev. 5,728 ft.) and Whitetop Mountain (elev. 5,518 ft.). Southwest Virginia actually encompasses two Blue Ridge Plateau Regional 231 Farmers Market Dr., Suite #5, Hillsville (276) 730-3100 mountain ranges — the steeper Cumberland mountains

Visitor Center in Carroll County to the west, and the gentler sloped Blue Ridge Galax Visitor Center 110 East Grayson St., Galax (276) 238-8130 mountains in the region’s eastern half. In between is a Radford Visitor Center 600 Unruh Dr., Radford (540) 731-5031 wide valley that cradles the historic Wilderness Road. inside Glencoe Museum The oaks and maples display beautiful red and orange Bland County Courthouse 612 Main St., Suite 204, Bland (276) 688-4622 leaves in the fall, and the region has snow most Rocky Mount Hospitality Center 52 Franklin St., Rocky Mount (540) 489-0948 winters. Everyone delights when the pale green hue Honaker Town Hall Honaker Town Hall, 455 Heritage Dr., Honaker (276) 873-6556 of spring returns, denoting summer’s right around the corner. Typical temperatures in June are 70 to 90 Lee County Tourism Office 33640 Main St., Jonesville (276) 346-4629 degrees during the day, dropping to a range of 45 to Damascus Town Hall 210 West Laurel Ave., Damascus (276) 475-3831 65 degrees at night. Temperatures are lower at the Pulaski County Visitor Center 4440 Clayburn Blvd., Dublin (540) 674-4161 higher elevations. Have a jacket handy for any outdoor activities after dark. NOTE: HoustonFest tickets are not available at these local outlets, but may be purchased online at mtnsofmusic.com or by calling HoustonFest at (276) 236-9908.

7 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 8 GENERAL INFORMATION

General Travel Information Dining There are a number of sources of travel information for Southwest Dining opportunities also abound, and you’ll find many places Virginia. The Southwest Virginia website (myswva.org) has a wealth that emphasize seasonal and local fare. The Appalachian Regional of information on all aspects of Southwest Virginia’s cultural offerings Commission’s Bon Appetit Appalachia website is an excellent resource and things to see and do. From shopping to golfing to hiking, the (visitappalachia.com/bonappetitappalachia). Dining options are also Virginia state tourism website is a comprehensive source of useful travel found on the Virginia Tourism website (virginia.org/directory/dining). information (virginia.org). Travel information can also be obtained from Once again, the local tourism offices on page 19 are a valuable resource the two regional tourism agencies in Southwest Virginia, the Heart and can provide great recommendations on dining opportunities. 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 19 are a great source for travel information with their websites or by telephone. If you don’t find what you’re looking for with these sources, just ask the locals. They can lead you to some Airports real gems. Or call or email us at (276) 492-2409, There are a number of regional, national, and international airports that provide access to The Crooked Road region. The closest ones are [email protected]. 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 Have fun! International Airport (CLT), and three Washington DC airports including Reagan National (DCA), Dulles International (IAD), and Baltimore/ 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. Camping opportunities abound in the region, including Virginia’s award- winning state parks (dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks). One of the best overall lodging resources is the Virginia Tourism website at virginia.org/ PlacesToStay. The local tourism offices on page 19 can provide great recommendations on lodging opportunities in their locality.

9 • mtnsofmusic.com 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 year-round Executive Director destination for traditional music John Kilgore, President Jonathan Romeo, lovers. Larry Yates, Vice President Program Manager Matthew Hankins, Secretary For more information about Ken Heath, Treasurer Debbie Holley, Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, call Jim Baldwin, Past President Administrative Assistant (276) 492-2409, email Lisa Bleakley [email protected] or visit Deborah Cooney www.thecrookedroad.org David Haney MOUNTAINS OF MUSIC Pat Murphy Leah Ross HOMECOMING TEAM Shannon Scott Carrie Beck, Emily Spencer Homecoming Coordinator Rita Surratt Dr. Ted Olson, Assistant Coordinator and Editorial Content EX OFFICIO Mary Ann Hinshelwood, Todd Christensen Deaf and Hard of Hearing Jackie Christian Outreach Steve Galyean Market Connections, Tyler Hughes Marketing and Public Relations Bill Kornrich Jon Lohman Dr. Jean Haskell and Dr. Katie Hoffman, Homecoming Feastival Event Consultants Photo by: John Secoges

Mountains of Music Homecoming JUNE 9 - 17, 2017

11 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 12 GENERAL INFORMATION

A TREASURY OF AMERICAN MUSIC is comprised of ancient ballads, hard-driving bluegrass and every thing in between from 50 of Southwest Virginia’s best musicians. A 20 - page booklet accompanies this two disc collection which includes fan favorites , Blue Highway, Lonesome River Band, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice and Big Country Bluegrass. Find great music, apparel, handmade instruments and more at The Crooked Road Store at Heartwood.

“This collection is a delightful assurance the Crooked Road remains rich in music; that the old springs still sparkle, that singers from here still induce chill bumps” – Joe Wilson, Crooked Road Co-Founder

To order call 276-492-2428 or visit thecrookedroad.org

Photo by: [email protected] | Courtesy Virginia Tourism Corporation

The Crooked Road is a 330 mile driving route through the scenic mountains of Southwest Virginia that connects nine major heritage music venues and a thriving network of over 60 traditional music jams, festivals, and concerts in gracious communities all along the way. On The Crooked Road you will discover that the roots of American music run deep and wide. And those roots feed a living, breathing music scene as thriving and vibrant today as it has ever been. Settlers to the region brought the European and the African banjo, and their sounds blended together to create a unique sound that’s been echoing across these mountains for generations. TUESDAY, JUNE 14 10AM – 4PM

Along The Crooked Road you can experience authentic Instruction in fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass, songwriting, & musical traditions that have been shaped by some of the performance techniques!

greatest names in American music, including the Carter Featuring The Crooked Road All Star Bluegrass Band: Billy Baker - Family, the Stonemans, and . Be sure to fiddle, Shawn Lane - mandolin, Sammy Shelor - banjo, Junior Sisk - guitar & Wayne Taylor – songwriting. Assistant Teaching Artists: pick up a copy of The Crooked Road visitor guide to help you Blake Collins – mandolin, Meredith Goins – fiddle, Jim Lloyd – guitar, get the most out of your heritage music experience. Sandy Shortridge – songwriting & George Smith – banjo

This camp is designed for intermediate to advanced students. The Crooked Road’s Traditional Music $45 per student - Includes one-day camp (music instruction, Education Program (TMEP) lunch, performance and discussion of performance techniques & songwriting workshop) and one ticket for the Crooked Road All TMEP means access – access to the immensely rich heritage Star Bluegrass Band’s concert at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion that music traditions of Southwest Virginia for students, teachers, at the Wayne C. Henderson evening! instructors and others. After-school programs where kids School of Appalachian For more information and to register, call: (276) 706-4011 learn banjo, fiddle, and guitar from accomplished musicians; email: [email protected] school assembly programs of traditional music; educational Arts in Marion, VA visit: www.thehenderson.org materials for teachers to use in the classroom, monthly youth performances, and The Crooked Road’s annual Youth Music Festival in May are all aspects of a program designed Courtesy of Virginia Tourism Corporation (virginia.org) to connect people of all ages with the traditional music the Sponsored by: region is known for.

13 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 14 GENERAL INFORMATION

Country Cabin II Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s 6034 Kent Junction Rd., Norton, VA 24273 appalachiantraditionsinc.com Artisan Gateway No trip to The Crooked Road is complete without a visit to one or Benny Jones & CMT Country One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon, VA 24210 June 11, 7:30PM (276) 492-2400 more of the Major Venues. Here’s what they have going on during myswva.org/heartwood Appalachian Strings June 18, 7:30PM Hours: the Homecoming. 9AM - 5PM Thursday: 9AM - 9PM Sunday: 10AM - 3PM Blue Ridge Institute & Museum at County Sales 117A W Main St., Floyd, VA 24091 Painting Demonstration with James Turner countysales.com June 11, 10AM - 4PM Ferrum College The world’s largest selection of old time and See `Round the Mountain juried member, James Turner, as 20 Museum Drive, Ferrum, VA 24088 . he creates his spheres within spheres paintings. (540) 365-4412 blueridgeinstitute.org Record Shop Hours: 5th Annual Southwest Virginia Wine Festival Monday - Friday June 11, 1PM - 5PM Museum Gallery Hours: 9AM - 4:30PM The 5th Annual Southwest Virginia Wine Festival! We will Open Monday – Saturday, 10AM - 5PM have a wide variety of wines, ciders and craft beers! Sunday, 1PM - 5PM Floyd Country Store Heartwood’s Sunday Brunch Farm Museum Hours: June 12, 10AM - 3PM Open Saturdays (June 11 & 18), 10AM - 5PM 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 Experience a true Southern tradition— the farm fresh Sunday, June 12, 1PM - 5PM (540) 745-4563 Sunday brunch at Heartwood. floydcountrystore.com Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries Hours: Southwest Virginia Community College Jazz Choir June 10 - 18, 10AM - 5PM Monday: Closed Performance Historic photos, videos, interviews, and vintage canning Tuesday - Thursday: 10AM – 5PM June 14, 11AM - 1PM equipment. Friday: 10AM – 10:30PM Drop by and enjoy lunch and live music provided by the Southwest Virginia Community College! Courtesy of Virginia Tourism Corporation (virginia.org) Saturday: 10AM – 6PM Oxen in the Blue Ridge Weekend at the Blue Ridge Sunday: 12PM – 5:30PM Farm Museum Heartwood Thursday Night BBQ June 10 - 12, 10AM - 5PM Friday Night Jamboree June 16, 5PM Teamsters and owners working and training oxen teams. June 10, 6:30PM - 10:30PM Come out and join us for our Thursday night BBQ! Old Time Country Dance with The Zephyr Lightning Bolts Birthplace of Museum Heartwood’s Open Jam June 11, 7:30PM 520 Birthplace of Country Music Way Blue Ridge Music Center June 16, 6:30PM - 9PM Bristol, VA 24201 Open bluegrass and old time music jam from 6:30 pm 701 Foothills Rd., Galax, VA 24333 Old Time Music Jam (423) 573-1927 June 12, 1:30PM until 9PM. (276) 236-5309 birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/museum blueridgemusiccenter.org Bluegrass Music Jam Heartwood’s Sunday Brunch Hours: June 12, 4PM June 19, 10AM - 3PM Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10AM – 6PM Experience a true Southern tradition— the farm fresh Open daily 10AM - 5PM A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed Sunday, 1PM – 5PM June 12, 7:30PM Sunday brunch at Heartwood Closed Mondays Weekly Participatory Jams Friday Night Jamboree June 10 - 12, 1PM - 4PM RADIO BRISTOL WBCM 100.1 June 17, 6:30PM - 10:30PM June 17 - 18, 1PM - 4PM Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Radio Bristol is a network of channels that showcase the diversity of American roots music from the Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Roots of American Music Exhibit Mountain Music Center early recording era to today. Tune in during the Southern Appalachian Dance (book signing) June 10 - 18, 10AM - 5PM June 18, 5PM Mountains of Music Homecoming! More information at 249 Clintwood Main Street, Clintwood, VA 24228 (276) 926-8550 birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/radio Southern Appalachian Dance Workshop Mid Day Mountain Music at BRMC ralphstanleymuseum.com June 13 - 16, 2PM - 4PM June 18, 6PM Radio Bristol Premieres: The Honeycutters June 10, 7PM – 9PM Floyd Country Store Square Dance with Phil Jamison Museum Hours: June 18, 7PM Monday – Saturday, 10AM – 4:30PM Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum. Doors Fold Americana Afternoon open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 per person Tickets go The Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc June 11, 12PM - 3PM on sale May 13, 2016. Radio Bristol Premieres focuses on 3449 AP Carter Hwy., Hiltons, VA 24258 Rex Theater new recordings debuted before a live audience, as well as a (276) 386-9480 Americana Afternoon 113 E Grayson St., Galax, VA 24333 live broadcast and webcast on Radio Bristol. This Premiere carterfamilyfold.org June 18, 12PM - 3PM (276) 236-0329 showcases honky-tonk sensations The Honeycutters. June 11 & 18, 7:30PM Blue Ridge Backroads Live Radio – Loose Strings CALLING IN ADVANCE is recommended to verify June 17, 7PM The Museum & Cabin open at 6:00pm on Saturdays. admissions fees and for event updates for all venues. Admission to the Museum and Cabin is by donation. Tickets are available at the door the evening of the shows.

15 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 16 GENERAL INFORMATION

In addition to The Crooked Road concerts, there are many more Whether you play or not, the region’s jam sessions are where the music is heritage music concerts to take in during the Homecoming. 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 its music and you’ll go home with some new best friends – guaranteed. Carter Family Fold Rex Theater Community Barn Dance The Carter Family Memorial Music 113 E Grayson St Chantilly Farm Blue Ridge Music Center Beaver Dam Jam and Ma & Pa’s Restaurant Salty Dog Jam Center, Inc., 3449 A. P. Carter Highway Galax, VA 24333 2697 Franklin Pike, Floyd, VA 24091 Hiltons, VA 24258 (276) 236-0329 (540) 353-5898 700 Foothills Road (Mile Marker Craft Fair 18928 U.S. Hwy 58 Holston River Coon Club 213 Blue Ridge Parkway) Castlewood, VA 24224 Lake View Drive (276) 386-6054 (recorded Galax, VA 24333 Damascus Town Park (276) 762-7533 Saltville, VA 24370 information) Blue Ridge Backroads Live Radio with June 14, 7PM - 9PM (276) 573-1927 208 W Laurel Ave (276) 496-4514 Loose Strings Damascus, VA Bluegrass Jam June 11 & June 18, 7:30PM June 17, 7PM Weekly Participatory Jam (276) 475-3831 June 13, 6PM June 14, 7PM The Fiddle & The Plow June 10, June 12, June 17 12PM - 4PM June 17, 6:30PM Gospel Jam Country Cabin II Big Walker Lookout 99 Coulson Church Rd. June 12, 2PM Smyth County Jam Woodlawn, VA 24381 Floyd Country Store Bluegrass/Old Time Chilhowie Lions Club Building 6034 Kent Junction Rd. 8711 Stoney Fork Rd. (276) 236-3034 Market Square Jam 116 Industrial Park Road Norton, VA 24273 Wytheville, VA 24382 206 S. Locust Street Music Jam Chilhowie, VA 24319 June 10, 7PM Floyd, VA 24091 102 Draper Road, NW (276) 496-5467 (276) 679-3541 (276) 663-4016 Central Cafe Glade (540) 745-4563 Blacksburg, VA June 17, 7PM 139 Town Square (540) 961-1199 June 13, 6:30PM Benny Jones & CMT Country Banjo Music with Jim Lloyd Glade Spring, VA 24340 Friday Night Jamboree June 11, 7:30PM June 10, 5:30PM – 6:30PM (276) 608-2578 June 10, 6:30PM - 10:30PM June 15, 8PM - 10PM June 17, 5:30PM – 6:30PM Floyd Contra Dancing Super Jam June 10, 6:30PM - 8:30PM Appalachian Strings Jams take place on Main Street Fries Community Center June 18, 7:30PM Davis Bradley Duo Jacksonville Center for the Arts Musical Jam Sessions 220 Parkway Lane S 316 W. Main St. June 11, 2PM Old Time Music Jam Capo’s Music Store 44 4th Street NW Fries, VA 24330 Floyd, VA 24091 June 12, 1:30PM Pulaski, VA 24301 (276) 744-2231 (540) 745-2784 Floyd Country Store Mike Gray Gospel Weekly Jam Session (540) 994-8631 Bluegrass Music Jam June 16, 6PM - 9PM June 12, 2PM Capo’s Music Store 206 S. Locust Street June 11, 8PM – 11PM June 12, 4PM June 16, 6PM – 8PM 903 E Main St Floyd, VA 24091 Night Crossing Celtic Band Abingdon, VA 24210 (540) 745-4563 Friday Night Jamboree Tuesday Old time Jam June 18, 2PM June 17, 6:30PM - 10:30PM (276) 525-1880 Old Time Jam at Hillbilly Opry Campo Verde Mexican Grill Friday Night Jamboree Jams take place on Main Street June 11 and June 18, 6PM MacArthur Inn 165 Kinter Way June 10, 6:30PM - 10:30PM 4925 State Park Rd Pearisburg, VA 24134 Border Bash Dublin, VA 117 MacArthur Lane (540) 921-0166 Grundy Music Jam Narrows, VA 24124 Old Time Country Dance with The State Street (540) 267-6535 Heartwood: Southwest (540) 726-7510 June 14, 7PM – 9PM Zephyr Lightning Bolts Downtown Bristol VA/TN Virginia’s Artisan 1185 Plaza Dr. June 11, 7PM - 10PM Grundy, VA 24614 June 11, 7:30PM (276) 644-9700 June 16, 7PM - 9PM June 18, 7PM - 10PM Gateway (276) 935-2551 Wednesday Night Old Friday Night Jamboree June 17, 6:30PM - 11:00PM One Heartwood Circle June 14, 6PM June 17, 6:30PM - 10:30PM Abingdon, VA 24210 Pickin’ in Pound Time Patrick county music (276) 492-2400 Town Hall Building Mountain Music Jam Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Lambsburg Community Pound, VA 1908 Courthouse Chautauqua Festival Heartwood Open Jam Roots and Branches of Southern association (276) 796-5062 107 E. Main St June 16, 6:30PM Center Appalachian Dance (book signing) 195 W Washington St Independence, VA 24348 Rotary Building, Rotary Field June 17, 7PM (276) 773-3711 June 18, 5PM Wytheville, VA 24382 (276) 228-6855 420 Woodland Dr., Stuart, VA 24171 130 Learning Lane Allen Hicks’ Jam Lambsburg, VA 24351 wythevillefestival.org (276) 694-4232 June 15, 2016, 6:30PM - 9PM Southern Appalachian Dance 1844 Bethel Rd. (336) 648-2078 Radford Fiddle and Workshop Nickelsville, VA 24271 June 18 - 25 Country Boys, Bill & Maggie Anderson, June 10 and June 17, 7PM Banjo Jam June 18, 6PM Roger Hardy & Friends, Hilton Family (276) 479-2739 Willis Gap Community Gospel Singers River City Grill Floyd Country Store Square Dance June 10, 6PM - 10PM 103 Third Ave June 18, 5PM June 17, 6PM - 10PM Center Open Jam with Phil Jamison Clinch Mountain Lays Hardware Center (540) 629-2130 June 18, 7PM Radford, VA 24141 Willis Gap Community Center Music Fest for the Arts Jam 144 The Hollow Road Pickin’ Porch Allison Gap Jamboree June 13, 7PM Ararat, VA 24053 Jackson Street, Downtown Gate City Allison Gap Ruritan Club Lays Hardware (276) 251-9906 Foundation Event Facility (2nd Floor) 413 Front St E Schedules for events Gate City, VA 165 Lick Skillet Road Coeburn, VA 24230 subject to change; calling in (276) 386-3831 620 State Street Saltville, VA 24370 Schedules for jam sessions June 10 and June 17 Bristol, TN (276) 496-4514 (276) 395-5160 subject to change; calling in 7PM - 10PM (every Friday night) advance is recommended to advance is recommended to June 18, 12PM - 5PM (423) 573-2262 verify schedule. June 10 and June 17 June 16, 6:30PM – 10:30PM verify schedule. June 13, 7PM - 9PM 6:30PM

17 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 18 Where to stay. Where to eat. 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 click any of the websites below to discover a whole new world of wonderful choices.

Y’all come! locality Website telephone # Bland County blandcountyva.gov (276) 688-4622 Smyth County visitvirginiamountains.com (276) 646-3306 Town of Marion marionva.org/play-here (276) 783-4190 Wytheville CVB VisitWytheville.com (276) 223-3355 City of Galax visitgalax.com (276) 238-8130 Carroll County pickplaystay.com (276) 730-3100 Grayson County graysoncountyva.com (276) 773-2000 Tazewell County visittazewellcounty.org (800) 588.9401 Scott County explorescottcountyva.org (276) 386-2525 Dickenson County dickensonva.org/index.aspx?NID=31 (276) 926-6074 Town of Haysi dickensonva.org/index.aspx?NID=31 (276) 345-2052 Buchanan County buchanancountytourism.com/tourism.html (276) 935-5093 Bristol CVB discoverbristol.org (423) 989-4850 Lee County ilovelee.org (276) 346-4629 Wise County visitwisecounty.com (276) 328-2321 City of Norton nortonva.org/index.aspx?NID=9 (276) 679-1160 Russell County russellcountyva.us (276) 889-8000 Abingdon CVB visitabingdonvirginia.com (276) 676-2282 Giles County virginiasmtnplayground.com (540) 921-2079 Franklin County visitfranklincountyva.org (540) 483-3030 Town of Boones Mill townofboonesmill.org/visitor-info (540) 483-3030 City of Radford visitradford.com (540) 267-3153 Town of Blacksburg blacksburg.gov (540) 961-1199 Town of Christiansburg christiansburg.org (540) 394-2120 Patrick County visitpatrickcounty.org (276) 694-6094 Montgomery Regional Tourism visitmontva.com (540) 394-2120 Town of Rocky Mount rockymountva.org/visitors (540) 483-0907 Pulaski County pulaskivatourism.org (540) 440-0200 Floyd County visitfloydva.com (540) 239-8509

19 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 20 WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE

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

Photo by: Justin Wiseman Trinity River Band, Crooked Lonesome River Band,

Road Ramblers South Mt. Boys

As in the East and Central Zones, the many Affiliated 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Venues and Festivals in the West Zone provide a vibrant Hosted by: Lays Hardware, Center for the Arts Hosted by: Haysi Kiwanis year-round opportunity to enjoy heritage music in many Location: 409 East Front St., Coeburn Location: Dickenson County Fairgrounds (Kiwanis different settings. The West Zone is home to several Park #1), Kiwanis Park Rd., Haysi legendary American musicians, including bluegrass THE TRINITY RIVER BAND, from Callahan, Florida, pioneers, the Stanley Brothers (Clintwood), Jim and is an award-winning bluegrass, Americana, and The progressive sound of THE LONESOME RIVER Jesse McReynolds (Coeburn), the old time banjo player acoustic roots band. Tracing their beginnings to BAND has featured such leading bluegrass musicians and singer Dock Boggs (Norton), and the Carter Family performances in their local churches in early 2008, as , , , (near Hiltons). The West Zone features, in its southeastern corner, the group went to full-time touring in 2011 and , and , and Sammy Shelor. quickly gained a devoted following nationwide. The latter musician—the only one of the above still a small section of the Blue Ridge range; in its central Visitors can see several sites of historical and cultural section is the wide valley that carries Interstate 81 significance: in Lee County, the eastern approach to with the group today—is one of the most respected travelers headed south to Tennessee or north to the Cumberland Gap, through which Daniel Boone and An old time fiddle-driven string band formed in 2001 banjo players in bluegrass history. A native of . The western section of this zone other settlers entered what at the time was considered and based in the Virginia Blue Ridge, THE CROOKED Stuart, Virginia, Sammy has been with the Lonesome incorporates a section of Central Appalachia’s coalfields “the West”; in Big Stone Gap, the setting for popular ROAD RAMBLERS carry on family traditions of River Band since 1990, while the other four members region, and coal has been a dominant influence on the literary works by early twentieth century author John old time music. The band’s leader, fiddler Kilby joined more recently. life and culture of the region for many decades. The Fox Jr. and contemporary author Adriana Trigiani; in Spencer, grew up in a musical household in the small steep eastern slopes of the Cumberland range form the Abingdon, the world-famous Barter Theatre, officially community of Whitetop. The band will bring a loyal Based in Haysi, Virginia, THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN western border of the zone, and flowing through the designated as the State Theatre of Virginia; and in group of dancers to this great dance hall venue. BOYS began playing bluegrass music together in zone is the Clinch River, one of the most biologically Bristol, the site of legendary 1927 and 1928 location 1992. The band was formed by Danny Hackney and diverse rivers in North America. recording sessions for Victor Records, known as Scotty Deel. Straight ahead solid bluegrass is their the (Bristol was also the site of the forte, with some country music material added in for The West Zone is home to five Crooked Road Major influential WCYB radio program “Farm and Fun Time” good measure. Venues: the Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional and the birthplace and boyhood home of Country Music Mountain Music Center (in Clintwood), the Country Hall of Fame inductee Tennessee Ernie Ford). The West Cabin II (in Norton), the Carter Family Fold (in Hiltons), Zone is home to two important institutions of higher the Birthplace of Country Music (including the learning: Emory and Henry College (in Emory) and the Birthplace of Country Music Museum and the annual at Wise. Rhythm and Roots Reunion), and Heartwood, an architecturally stunning visitor center that showcases the music, craft, history, and outdoor splendor of Southwest Virginia (in Abingdon).

21 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 22 WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE HERITAGE AND HISTORY

by Ted Olson

The guitar, brought by the Spanish to the New World in the seventeenth century, was not common in the Blue Ridge through the dawn of the twentieth century. During his ballad-collecting trips in Appalachia during World War I, English folklorist Cecil Sharp heard many traditional ballads but encountered few guitars. By the mid-1920s, though, as the commercial recording industry began to record musicians from Appalachia, the guitar had become Lost & Found, Jim and Ada established in the Blue Ridge, and was used in a range of musical settings, whether traditional or popular. McCown, Will Caudill & Route 7, Among the earliest Appalachian musicians to make Crooked Road All Star recordings featuring the guitar were three musicians from Sunrise Ridge, Phil & Ann Case the Crooked Road area: Henry Whitter, from Grayson County; , from Carroll County; and the Carter 2PM • $8, Free for children 10 and under Bluegrass Band Hosted by: Breaks Interstate Park Family’s , from Scott County. Those three Location: Conference Center, 627 Commission 2PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 musicians were part of the famous recording sessions for Circle, Breaks For lodging and meal packages, call Hosted by: Country Cabin Victor Records in Bristol during the summer of 1927 (though the Breaks Interstate Park at (276) 865-4413 or visit Location: 6034 Kent Junction Rd., Norton Whitter played harmonica in Bristol), and all three continued breakspark.com to showcase the guitar on many subsequent recordings. Another influential guitarist who recorded at the Bristol A full day of great mountain music in the scenic Can any other comparably sized area in the USA sessions was Meridian, Mississippi-native Jimmie Rodgers. “Grand Canyon of the South”. THE LOST AND claim as talented an array of bluegrass musicians as FOUND BAND was formed in 1973 and became the Crooked Road? Indisputably the five musicians The guitar was initially distributed across Appalachia as an item from the Sears-Roebuck and other retail quite popular playing bluegrass festivals, with Mills’ who together form THE CROOKED ROAD ALL mail-order catalogs. Before the arrival of the guitar to the Crooked Road area, traditional music consisted of exceptional songwriting contributing much to the STAR BLUEGRASS BAND—SAMMY SHELOR (banjo), a cappella singing, or singing accompanied by the fiddle and the banjo, or instrumental performance on those group’s fame; “Love of the Mountains,” has become JUNIOR SISK (guitar and vocals), BILLY BAKER two instruments. By the 1920s, the guitar had already become nearly as popular as the fiddle and the banjo. a bluegrass standard. (fiddle), WAYNE TAYLOR (bass and vocals), and SHAWN LANE (mandolin and vocals)—are among Maybelle Carter’s approach on the instrument—playing the melody on the bass strings with a thumbpick, in Bluegrass duo, JIMMY AND ADA MCCOWN the finest bluegrass musicians anywhere, with alternation with higher-string strum patterns—was influenced by the African American guitarist Lesley Riddle, have recorded numerous albums of songs and countless performances in leading venues, numerous who also assisted A.P. Carter on song-collecting trips. instrumentals. influential bluegrass recordings, and an astounding WILL CAUDILL & ROUTE 7 is a bluegrass band from number of major awards to their collective credit. Several other musicians associated with the Crooked Road area have contributed to the development of guitar Letcher County, . Their first three albums, style through the later decades of the twentieth century and to the prominence of the instrument in American released between 2010 and 2012, featured 28 of These musicians (with the exception of Taylor music. A number of talented guitarists from Southwest Virginia—including such black players as Archie Will Caudill’s original songs. Playing a combination and Lane) have primarily worked separately, Edwards and the Foddrell brothers (Marvin and Turner) and such white players as E.C. Ball and Fields Ward— of slow and fast music—a winning mix of bluegrass, not together. While building their reputations have advanced the possibilities for the guitar in traditional music. While playing for the Stanley Brothers, country, and gospel—Will Caudill & Route 7 is a performing with other musicians in legendary George Shuffler introduced a cross-picking guitar technique that has proven influential in bluegrass, while consistent crowd pleaser. bluegrass bands (Shelor with The Lonesome River several contemporary bluegrass musicians, including and Junior Sisk, make recordings that feature SUNRISE RIDGE is a lively and entertaining Band, Sisk with Rambler’s Choice, Baker with their own sophisticated bluegrass guitar stylings. One contemporary master guitarist in the region—Wayne bluegrass band from Letcher County, Kentucky. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, and Taylor Henderson—is also a master luthier whose hand-crafted instruments have been praised by guitarists from Their repertoire includes traditional bluegrass, a little and Lane with Blue Highway), these talented around the world (most famously by rock guitarist Eric Clapton). newgrass, and an occasional country tune. They can natives of Southwest Virginia all love to play also change gears and lay down some great flat bluegrass with other musicians who, despite the The composer Beethoven referred to the guitar as “an orchestra unto itself” because the instrument could footing old time music. competitive nature of the music business, are not readily be played solo. However, as demonstrated by many musicians from the Crooked Road area, the guitar ANN AND PHIL CASE have been singing and playing rivals, but good friends. These five musicians— has also revealed itself as adaptable to a wide range of other musical arrangements, and it is no surprise that music together since 1990. They specialize in growing up within a culture that values tradition, today the guitar is probably the most common instrument in Southwest Virginia. singing old time Appalachian duets, old-fashioned community, and homemade entertainment—will parlor songs and Depression-era tunes as well as enjoy every moment of performing together at the Ted Olson is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife, a study of Blue Ridge culture, and a Grammy Award-nominated performing old time instrumental duets. Their sound Homecoming, and anyone wanting to hear the most music historian. draws upon the influences of the Carter Family and inspired and inspiring bluegrass music in America their contemporaries, early country blues, ragtime, today would be wise not to miss this group. and traditional ballad singing.

23 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 24 WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE

Completing this foray into the Southwest Virginia guitar world will be fingerstyle guitaristJIM LLOYD. Originally from the Virginia coalfields, Lloyd now

lives in Rural Retreat, where he operates Lloyd’s

Barber Shop and plays guitar solo and with others (he was the longtime guitarist for the old time string band the Konnarock Critters).

Photo by: Chelsa Yoder Photography

TCR Guitar masters concert: Steve Kilby, Mac Traynham, Garry Dalton, nick weitzenfeld, Experience John Doyle Trio, Sigean Jim Lloyd 6:30PM • $15 in advance, $20 after May 31, 2016 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Hosted by: Birthplace of Country Music Hosted by: Emory and Henry College 2PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 520 Location: McGlothlin Center for the Arts, Hosted by: Town of Damascus Birthplace of Country Music Way, Bristol 30481 Garnand Drive, Emory Location: The Rock School, 505 Shady Ave., Damascus THE LARRY KEEL EXPERIENCE combines a Grammy Award-nominated Irish musician and multitude of musical influences, instrumental songwriter JOHN DOYLE, a native of Dublin, Ireland, Ever since the guitar arrived in Appalachia, artists IIIrd Tyme Out, dexterity, and original songs to create an explosive is one of the leading performers of Irish music. Doyle in The Crooked Road region have been creatively acoustic sound. The band draws from folk, played guitar for four years with the popular Irish- wielding its expressive power and voice. This first of Bluegrass Kinsmen progressive bluegrass, jazz, and reggae, creating American band Solas before leaving that band to two concerts brings together 5 of the region’s best an exciting mix of music that is impossible to work as a solo artist. The John Doyle Trio—featuring guitarists to illustrate what a range of styles the guitar 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 pigeonhole. Doyle on guitar and vocals, Duncan Wickel on fiddle, is capable of in the right hands. The concert will be Hosted by: Town of Honaker & Honaker and David Curley on vocals, bodhran, mando, and emceed by Appalachian music historian Ted Olson. Lion’s Club banjo—will play a range of Celtic ballads, songs, and Location: Honaker High School, 1795 Thompson tunes, and Curley will likely take a turn or two as a STEVE KILBY, a teacher and award-winning Creek Rd., Honaker step dancer. performer specializes in flatpicking traditional fiddle tunes on the guitar. Steve lives in Mouth of RUSSELL MOORE & IIIRD TYME OUT is one of artisan trails Bristol-based SIGEAN (pronounced she-gun) Wilson, Virginia, and is a North Carolina State guitar the leading contemporary bands on the national performs traditional Irish music with a full champion. bluegrass scene and the Homecoming is part of their complement of 6 musicians. Sigean is just beginning 25th Anniversary tour. Based in Cumming, Georgia, Discover the Artisan Trails of its 20th year and has performed at virtually all Willis, Virginia-resident MAC TRAYNHAM, a the band has appeared at major venues around Southwest Virginia, where the story of the music festivals in the region, including the builder of cabinets and who plays several the USA, has recorded numerous albums, and has of our communities is uniquely told Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion Festival, the instruments, keeps the style of Maybelle Carter alive received top bluegrass honors from the IBMA. through visits to local artisan studios, East Tennessee Celtic Festival, The Knoxville Irish in his guitar work. A teacher of mountain music Festival, the Virginia Highlands Festival, and many THE BLUEGRASS KINSMEN have been playing great galleries & shops, farms and more. others. at music workshops nationwide, Traynham has Plan your trip today and take a piece recorded and released several albums. traditional bluegrass music since 1971. The Bluegrass Kinsmen features superb harmony, singing and skilled of SWVA home with you! GARRY DALTON, of Draper, Virginia, will delight playing on both traditional and original material. www.roundthemountain.org interpretation services listeners not only with great bluegrass style guitar If requested at least 21 days in advance of a flatpicking but is a captivating vocalist as well. performance, signing interpretation services at Crooked Road concerts can be provided for the deaf and hard NICK WEITZENFELD is still able to enter youth of hearing. If requested less than 21 days prior to a music competitions but plays guitar at a level way performance, The Crooked Road cannot guarantee such beyond his years in a flatpick style that is powerful services can be provided, but will make every attempt to do so. To request signing services, call The Crooked and nuanced. Road at (276) 492-2409 or email us at [email protected].

25 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 26 WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE

Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley,

Reed Island Rounders The Church Sisters Sheri Castle - Keynote Speaker Nell Fredericksen Jewelry & Carolina, 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Hosted by: Town of Glade Spring homecoming “feastival”: a celebration of appalachian creativity Black Twig Pickers Location: Glade Spring Middle School, 33474 Stagecoach Rd., Glade Spring 5:30PM • $85 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Hosted by: William King Museum of Art & Heartwood Hosted by: Natural Tunnel State Park Dobro player ROB ICKES is a well-established Sponsored by: Blue Ridge Beverage, Food City, and Virginia Tourism Corporation Location: Natural Tunnel State Park Amphitheater, instrumental giant, and Trey Hensley is newly Locations: William King Museum (415 Academy Dr. NW, Abingdon) 1420 Natural Tunnel Pkwy, Duffield arrived, but brimming with talent both as a vocalist & Heartwood (One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon) and guitarist. Trey has already in his young life LOU REID AND CAROLINA performs traditional played with Johnny and , Charlie More than a meal, this is a celebratory food gala, collective foot firmly planted in the world of bluegrass with an emphasis on dynamic vocals. In Daniels, , , The Oak Ridge designed to feed body, soul, and imagination! traditional bluegrass, country, and folk, and the 1992, after stints with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Boys, and Janie Fricke. Rob Ickes has been playing Think of it as farm-to-table-plus. Along with great other exploring Dawg, spacegrass, and jazz. After Ricky Skaggs, and , talented bluegrass with his much-decorated band Blue food, there will be music, art, and artisanship. The the cocktail hour, it’s all aboard the Abingdon Town vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Reid formed his Highway for over twenty years, during which time he evening’s focus is on Appalachian creativity—a Trolleys, which will whisk you away to Heartwood, own band, Carolina, with on banjo. has been named Bluegrass Dobro Player Of the Year hallmark of the region’s culture. Chef Charles Parker gateway to Southwest Virginia’s craft, music, food, Their new song, “The Crooked Road,” will be 15 freakin times! has carefully crafted a menu featuring local and local culture and the main course—a sumptuous debuted at this year’s Homecoming. seasonal foods, paired with regional wines and craft dinner designed to make use of June’s abundance. THE REED ISLAND ROUNDERS began playing beers. (There will be a very tasty vegetarian option.) Keynote speaker Sheri Castle, mountain-born and THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS is a musically together in 1993, when Betty Vornbrock (a fiddler committed to celebrating Appalachian cuisine and adventurous Appalachian old time band whose and singer) and Billy Cornette (a guitarist and The evening begins with hors d’oeuvres and drinks its potential, will talk about creativity and artistry in music sounds like they are having way too much vocalist) formed a band to compete at local fiddlers’ at the William King Museum of Art. This jewel of mountain cooking. fun. You will too. conventions. Eventually, acclaimed musician Kirk a museum offers outstanding exhibits, including Sutphin (a banjo player and fiddler) joined the contemporary, world, and regional art and cultural Nell Jefferson Fredericksen, Virginia Juried Reed Island Rounders, and the band made a name heritage, and this evening will be no exception. Master Artisan, will discuss how she translates her for itself as a leading interpreter of the old time In an exhibit entitled ¡Viva Appalachia!, Latin- mountainous home environment into gorgeous repertoire historically associated with Southwest American artists who live and work in the region one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. And for dessert? Virginia (where the band is based) and nearby share photography, sculpture and other art forms Chef Charles has something special in store for Appalachian areas. that chronicle how divergent cultures are coming your palate, and we also have a treat for your ears. together in the mountains. Roadside Attractions: Our after-dinner concert will feature The Church The Weird and Wonderful Worlds of Mark Cline Sisters, twins from Galax, Virginia, whose vocals will explores the life and work of this Rockbridge County- raise the hairs on the back of your neck with their based artist through drawings, photos, video, and intricacy and beauty. This up-and-coming duo is The famous Cumberland Gap, through which Daniel Boone and others large-scale fiberglass creatures ranging from King Appalachian music at its newest, freshest best. After in 1775 constructed a trail into Kentucky for western settlement, is at Kong and Humpty Dumpty to Frankenchicken and the concert, there will be a meet-and-greet with all the western edge of the West Zone. In 1773, at the base of Wallen’s the artist himself. You’ll meet some of these artists of the artists and artisans, then the trolleys will return Ridge in Lee County’s Powell Valley, Indians ambushed Boone’s son during your visit. you to the museum parking area, satiated, inspired, James and some fellow pioneers during an earlier effort to build a trail and fully entertained. Please join us. For more And of course, there will be music. The Pointer information, email the Crooked Road office at admin@ toward the Cumberland Gap. Brothers, an acoustic trio based in Southwest thecrookedroad.org or call us at 276-492-2409. Virginia, will be sure to please. They have one

27 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 28 WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE

Blue Highway, Tyler Hughes

7PM • $15 in advance, $20 after May 31, 2016 Hosted by: Lee Theatre Folk art exhibit by Southwest Location: 41676 W. Morgan Ave., Penniington Gap Virginia painter, Shawn Wallace A leading progressive bluegrass band with roots 8:30AM - 5:00PM • FREE Exhibit featuring works by native Virginian in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee, BLUE Shawn Wallace, a professionally trained, HIGHWAY has logged 10 albums spread out across award-winning artist and a self-described the 22 years of the band’s existence. Blue Highway “outsider” in the folk art community. Paintings feature pictures of mountain life, people, has defined both excellence and consistency within places and things in a surrealist manner. the bluegrass world. The band’s most recent album The Game (2014) spent 7 consecutive months at the top of the Bluegrass Unlimited Album Chart and was Haysi Community Library 157 O’Quinn St., Haysi, VA 24256 nominated for IBMA Album of the Year. Contact: [email protected], 276-865-4851 TYLER HUGHES hails from Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Quilt Show and is a prominent interpreter of the musical 10AM – 2 PM • FREE traditions of the coalfields region. He performs Display of handmade quilts submitted by regularly as a soloist and with such bands as local quilters – some machine quilts as well as Fifthstring and the Empty Bottle String Band. hand quilted – lap quilts – wall hangings – full bed quilts and coverlets.

Town Square Center 136 Town Square, Glade Spring, VA 24340 Contact: [email protected] 276-608-4489 Crossing Over - A Retrospective by Margaret Gregg 10AM – 4PM • FREE Unique fiber art works focusing on and inspired by Gregg’s work on and involvement in social movements in the mountains of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. This event is created especially for a Mountains of Music Homecoming experience.

Town Square Center Glade Spring 136 Town Square, Glade Spring, VA 24340 Contact: [email protected] 276-356-5183 Lunch on the Lawn 12PM – 1PM • FREE Event showcases the best in regional culture featuring a different local performer each week in the beautiful garden settings in the park. Come enjoy music under the shade of Ash trees and then also visit the museum before or after the event. Symbol key Southwest Virginia Museum Historical Park 10 West 1st Street North Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 Contact: [email protected] 276-523-1322

June 10-18, 2016 • 30 WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE HERITAGE AND HISTORY

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: [email protected] 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

31 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 32 WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE

Best Friend Festival 2016 Big Glades Summer Second Sunday Concert & Dessert VARIES • FREE Concert Series 2PM - 4PM • $10 ADVANCE • $12 AT THE The Best Friend Festival is in its 30th year DOOR (Advance tickets are available at in the City of Norton. The event is free and 7PM • FREE Capo’s Music in Abingdon and Glade Green offers everyone a chance to meet with old Outdoor bluegrass concert featuring Grocer in the Glade Spring town square) friends and make new ones, all while enjoying traditional and contemporary bluegrass Carol Raedy & friends will play an eclectic mix good food, music contests, a variety of music from Cumberland River Band and The of music ranging from old time fiddle tune entertainment with activities such as free Cowboy Poets. Bring dancing shoes and a to rags to Carter Family songs to original lunch in the park day, senior citizens day, lawn chair! hammered dulcimer tunes. She will be Friends and Farmer’s Market, karaoke, kid’s accompanied on guitar by her husband Pat night, city block party, Kiwanis pancake Raedy with David & Ann Ledgerwood adding breakfast, and 5K. Big Glades Ampitheater tight harmony vocals. Guests will be served 309 E. Main St., Wise, VA 24293 a sampler of traditional Southern desserts Contact: 276-328-6013 between musical sets. City of Norton [email protected] Contact: [email protected] 276-679-0961 Central Cafe Glade 139 Town Square, Glade Spring, VA 24340 Contact: [email protected] Wild Cave Tour: Bowling Cave 276-608-2578 2PM • $15 PER PERSON • GROUPS OF 10 IS $12 PER PERSON Get down and dirty with our wild caves. Run Canoe Trip Come and view a different world of unique Folk art exhibit by Southwest 2:30PM • $15 PER PERSON • GROUPS OF 10 formations and historical remains that Virginia painter, Shawn Wallace OR MORE $12 PERSON lies under your feet by experiencing the 5.5 mile Float along the Clinch River. View underground world of caves and caverns on a 8:30AM - 5:00PM • FREE a variety of water fowl and aquatic life guided tour. The tour involves more effort and See listing description under June 10. including fresh water mussels and learn about ability due to the crawls and passages found the history of the river including Eastern within the cave. Pre-registration is required. 8 Boones Run Kayak Trip Woodland Cherokee life. Cool off with a years and older. splashing war! No experience needed, pre- 9:30AM • $15 PER PERSON reservations required. Minimum 6 years old. See listing description under June 11. Natural Tunnel State Park Natural Tunnel State Park 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Quilt Show Duffield, VA 24244 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Contact: [email protected] 10AM – 2PM • FREE Duffield, VA 24244 See listing description under June 10. 276-940-2674 Contact: [email protected] 276-940-2674 Bristol Craft Beer Festival Sunday Service at Slates Farm 4PM – 10PM • $8 NON-DRINKING 11:00 • DONATIONS ADMISSION • $35 FOR BEER TASTER Music (Local LIVE musicians performing ADMISSION PLUS BEER old tunes, and a few modern) FREE Meal Bristol’s 1st Annual Craft Beer Festival will following music, a short devotion, and FREE showcase local craft beer from VA and TN Kayak and Canoe use and tour on designated with live music section of the Clinch River. Folk art exhibit by Southwest Virginia painter, Shawn Wallace Cumberland Square Park Slates Farm 8:30AM - 5:00PM • FREE Bristol, VA Rt. 672 Stump Town Rd., Honaker, VA 24260 See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] 276-730-4534 (276) 645-7300 Best Friend Festival Best Friend Festival VARIES • FREE Fincastle Hayride See listing description under June 11. 6:30PM • ADULTS: $5 • CHILDREN 12 AND VARIES • FREE YOUNGER: $3 See listing description under June 11. Take a step back in time and travel 7 miles (1 Music and Meal ½ hours) along the historic Fincastle Turnpike Wilderness Road Blockhouse 5:30PM – 7:30PM • DONATIONS Road. See the wonderful splendor of Rye The church will host a musical event with a Cove’s countryside and listen to stories about 1PM - 5PM • FREE meal served in the large fellowship hall. The structures that remain standing from 100’s See listing description under June 10. music will consist of the old gospel standards of years ago, including The Masonic Lodge, that have filled the mountains all these years Brick Church, and much more. Wagon is and will invite the participants to sing along. pulled by a diesel tractor. Preregistration is The meal will be prepared by the members of required. the church.

Natural Tunnel State Park First Baptist Church Gate City – Fellowship 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Hall Duffield, VA 24244 307 East Jackson Street, Gate City, VA 24251 Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] 276-940-2674 276-393-4177

33 • mtnsofmusic.com WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE WEST ZONE

Quilters Showcase Snorkel the Clinch Lunch on the Lawn Best Friend Festival 10AM – 5PM • $3.00 / PER CAR DAY OF 2PM • $5 12PM – 1PM • FREE VARIES • FREE schedule also available online EVENT AT PARK ENTRANCE Spend a warm afternoon feeling the coolness See listing description under June 10. See listing description under June 11. Quilt show and demonstration by local of the Clinch River water pass by while mtnsofmusic.com quilters at the historical Karlan Mansion. crawling around the river floor viewing Wilderness Road Blockhouse Folk art exhibit by Southwest Home Canning - How to Preserve Park historic interpretive staff will also be on several freshwater mussels, crayfish, and a hand on the mansion lawn demonstrating small full grown fish called Darters and river 1PM - 5PM • FREE Virginia painter, Shawn Wallace Foods the Ol’ Fashion Way corn husk doll making, candle making, hide snails. 7 years or older. Trip length: 1 hour to See listing description under June 10. tanning, and open fire cooking. 1 hour and 30 minutes. Trip is limited to 15 10AM - 2PM • FREE Monthly 3rd Saturday Meal 10AM – 2PM • $8 participants. Pre-registration required. See listing description under June 10. Expand your knowledge about food Art D’Vine - Downtown Gallery Hop and Music preservation and canning. Event will 3PM – 7PM MUSIC • 4PM – 6PM MEAL • $10 Wilderness Road State Park 6PM – 9PM • $5 SUGGESTED DONATION feature hands on experience and cover Quilt Show Onsite meals will be prepared and live local 8051 Wilderness Rd Trail, Ewing, VA 24248 Natural Tunnel State Park Downtown galleries and some local favorites how to preserve foods safely and canning Bluegrass, Country and Southern Gospel Contact: [email protected] 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway join together to host Art D’Vine event. This 10AM – 2PM • FREE techniques. Participants will keep the finished bands. On June 18th, three bands will be 276-445-3065 Duffield, VA 24244 art walk offers patrons the chance to gain See listing description under June 10. canned product. featured: Boozy Creek Grass, Ramblin’ Rose Contact: [email protected] after-hours access to merchants, sample (276) 940-2674 domestic and international wines, and enjoy a Crossing Over - A Retrospective by and Kytchyn Sync. There will also be auctions Best Friend Festival range of works from artists across the region. and other fun activities. Coalfield Agricultural Center VARIES • FREE The Art D’Vine participating galleries, which 449 Agricultural Drive Margaret Gregg See listing description under June 11. Heartwood Open Jam vary depending on schedule availability, Clintwood, VA 24228 10AM – 4PM • FREE 6:30PM • FREE will be highlighting various special events, Boozy Creek Community Center Contact: 276-926-4605, [email protected] See listing description under June 10. Open Old Time and Bluegrass Jam at releases or artists. 1989 Shellys Rd, Bristol, VA 24202 Heartwood: Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Contact: [email protected] Folk art exhibit by Southwest Artisan Gateway and a Major Venue of The 423-323-5266 Crooked Road. Bar-B-Que meals, coffee and Historic Downtown Bristol Virginia painter, Shawn Wallace wine bar available. Bring your instrument or Bristol, VA 24201 Beaver Dam Jam and Craft Fair 11AM - 7:30PM • FREE just your ears and don’t forget your appetite! Contact: [email protected] 4PM – 9PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. 276-644-9700 Stock Creek Passage Enjoy an afternoon and evening with Wise Old River and Shady Appalachia playing in 10AM • $5 Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan the town park by the river. There will also Best Friend Festival See Natural Tunnel from the inside! Hike to Gateway Border Bash be a variety of local artists with their crafts VARIES • FREE the Natural Tunnel and surrounding area One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon, VA 24210 6:30PM – 11:30PM • FREE available for purchase. Food vendors will be See listing description under June 11. and through Stock Creek from the Stock Contact: [email protected] Free summer concert series held on State set up to provide meals for anyone wanting Creek Interpretive Center. This walk can be 276-492-2409 Street in downtown Bristol includes live to picnic in the park. strenuous. Wading attire, a flashlight, and a music, children’s activities, arts & crafts and Music at the Market wading staff are highly recommended. NO food vendors. 6PM • FREE sandals, flip-flops, or crocs. Trip length: 2-4 Clinch Mountain Music Fest Damascus Town Park See listing description under June 10. hours. Minimum age: 8 years. Trips limited to 11AM - 9PM • FREE Laurel Avenue, Damascus, VA 24236 12. Pre-registration is required. Historic Downtown Bristol VA/TN Annual festival featuring performances of State Street, Bristol, VA 24201 Contact: [email protected] traditional Bluegrass, Folk, and Americana, 423-571-1830 Contact: [email protected] local arts, crafts and food vendors, and even a Natural Tunnel State Park 276-644-9700 car show open to everyone! Come strut your 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Folk art exhibit by Southwest stuff! Help us preserve and perpetuate the Night Hike Duffield, VA 24244 heritage of the Appalachian region through 8PM • FREE [email protected] Virginia painter, Shawn Wallace Contact: its music at Clinch Mountain Music Fest! Ever wonder what goes on at night in a park? 276-940-2674 8:30AM - 5:00PM • FREE Folk art exhibit by Southwest See listing description under June 10. Join park guides as they take you on a hike through the park. Learn how to use your night Virginia painter, Shawn Wallace Quilt Show Jackson Street – Downtown Gate City, VA vision, and night hearing to get you through Best Friend Festival Contact: [email protected] the woods. Maximum participants – 12. 8:30AM - 5PM • FREE 10AM – 2PM EACH DAY • FREE 276-386-3831 See listing description under June 10. See listing description under June 10. VARIES • FREE Run Canoe Trip See listing description under June 11. 9AM • $15 PER PERSON • GROUP OF 10 OR Natural Tunnel State Park MORE $12 PER PERSON Wilderness Road Blockhouse 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Canorkel Crossing Over - A Retrospective Over 200 years ago Eastern Woodland 1PM - 5PM • FREE Duffield, VA 24244 10AM • $15 PER PERSON • GROUPS OF 10 Boones Run Kayak Trip Cherokee Indians used the Clinch River for See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] OR MORE $12 PERSON by Margaret Gregg 1PM • $15 PER PERSON transportation and now you can paddle along (276) 940-1643 A canoe trip with a twist. Explore and learn 10AM – 4PM • FREE See listing description under June 11. the same route as some of your ancestors. of the rich history of the Clinch from when See listing description under June 10. Enjoy a seven mile paddle and view a variety Wild Cave Tour: Native Americans and Longhunters lived Outdoor Skills of rock cliff formations, enjoy skipping Natural Tunnel Cavern along its banks to current day. At points, river Folk art exhibit by Southwest rocks or a short swim in the clean water. Symbol key guests will have the opportunity to snorkel 10AM • $4 PER VEHICLE FOR DAILY PASS Preregistration is required. This program 2:30PM • $10 PER PERSON • $7 PER looking for freshwater mussels, darters, and Virginia painter, Shawn Wallace TO PARK • PROGRAM IS FREE is open to anyone age 6 and up. For your PERSON FOR GROUPS OF EIGHT OR MORE COMMUNITY MEAL other aquatic river life. Minimum 6 years of Families will have the opportunity to learn Have you ever wondered what lies under 11AM - 7:30PM • FREE comfort and safety appropriate footwear is age. Pre-registration is required. basic outdoor skills from a park guide your feet? Experience unique rock formations See listing description under June 10. required, no flipflops, crocs, or sandals. VISUAL OR PERFORMING ARTS including knot tying, to fire starting, to how such as stalactites and stalagmites and walk to dress in different weather conditions and the rim of a waterfall. We will visit, but not more. Some skills allow families to race with disturb, the homes of cave critters such as AGRITOURISM Natural Tunnel State Park Best Friend Festival Natural Tunnel State Park 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway one another; all in friendly fun. salamanders, crickets, and snails. Equipment VARIES • FREE 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Duffield, VA 24244 provided. Pre-registration is required. Ages PARTICIPATORY EVENT See listing description under June 11. Duffield, VA 24244 Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] 8 and up. For your comfort and safety 276-940-2674 Natural Tunnel State Park (Chairlift parking lot) (276) 940-2674 appropriate pants and close toe shoes LEARNING OPPORTUNITY 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway required. Guests must use park gear. Duffield, VA 24244 OUTDOOR EVENT Contact: [email protected] Farmers Market (276) 940-1643 9AM – 12PM • FREE Natural Tunnel State Park CULTURAL FOOD EVENT See listing description under June 11. 1420 Natural Tunnel Parkway Duffield, VA 24244 COMMUNITY MEAL Contact: [email protected] 276-940-2674

35 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 36 37 • mtnsofmusic.com CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE

Bland, Carroll, Grayson, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe Counties and the City of Galax FRIDAY JUNE 10: Church Sisters, Loose Strings,

HoustonFest Amber Collins & Branch House Pavilion, Michael & Ricky skaggs & kentucky thunder, Lonesome River Jennifer McLain & Dan Kelly, Larry Sigmon & Martha Band, and more (many more!) Spencer, Danny Paisley & Southern Grass, Galax Homecoming Showcase, Flatt Lonesome, Lonesome River Band, Kitty Amaral & Presley Barker, Houston’s Lodge. Ernest “Pop” Stoneman and the legendary 12PM - 10:30PM • 2 Day Ticket $30 • 1 Day Ticket (Fri Bluegrass Kids, ShadowGrass, Country Boys, Rich Stoneman Family made their home near Galax and or Sat) $20 • At The Gate: $25 per person per day • played a dominant role in the beginnings of recorded In Tradition, Whitetop Mountain Band, Jonny & The Children 12 & under admitted free with paying adult country music. Affiliated venues and festivals featuring Jambusters, Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome, Annabelle’s Location: Felts Park, 601 South Main St., Galax heritage music are plentiful in this zone as well. Curse, Wildmans, Jonah Riddle & Carolina Express, Sites of historical and cultural significance in the Central Jones Sisters, Galax JAM Students, Sigmon Stringers, Zone include: the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Some of the finest bluegrass and old time acts will Ben & Eric Marshall, Kitty Amaral & Scott Freeman, Dori Museum, the former First Lady of the US (in Wytheville); perform June 10-11 at Felts Park in Galax as part & Scott Freeman with Willard Gayheart, Sammy Shelor Ripshin, the home of influential American novelist of HoustonFest. This 2-day doozy of a festival was & Clay Russell, Carolina Line, Brien Fain & Stu Shenk Sherwood Anderson (in Grayson County); the Carroll started in 2011 to commemorate the memory of The Central Zone features, to the south, the highest County Courthouse, site of a famous and deadly Houston Caldwell, a locally beloved banjo-player South Carolina Broadcasters, mountains in Virginia (culminating in the 5,729-foot Mount SAT JUNE 11: 1912 courthouse shootout (in Hillsville); the Saltville who died at the age of 18. On Friday, June 10 at Whitetop Mountain Band, New Ballards Branch Rogers), while the northern portion (in Tazewell County) Battlefields Historic District, a Civil War site (in Saltville); 6PM, HoustonFest will be presented with a banner Bogtrotters, Wayne Henderson & the Virginia Luthier falls within the realm of Central Appalachia’s coalfields Austinville, the home town of Texas founder Stephen recognizing them as the newest affiliated festival Band, Dori Freeman, Emi Sunshine, Blue Highway, Galax region; in between lies a broad valley where Interstate F. Austin; as well as the workshops of such renowned of the Crooked Road. In addition to relaxing while Homecoming Showcase, Fiddlin’ Carson Peters Band, 81 now carries the nation’s travelers parallel to the musical instrument luthiers as Wayne Henderson (in listening to music, attendees may participate in Jeff Little Trio, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Wilderness Road that carried them over 200 years ago. Grayson County). workshops and showcases and also meet and learn Flatfooting Showcase, Ben Marshall, Kitty Amaral & Presley Barker, Jesse Burleson & Danielle Yother, Running north and south through the heart of the from local luthiers and other artisans. And youths Also found within the Central Zone are several popular Liam Purcell & Gerald Anderson, Presley Barker & Central Zone is Interstate 77 providing another means of can head over to Camp Houston, a gathering area recreational sites, such as Mount Rogers National Wayne Henderson, Annabelle’s Curse, Crooked Road highway access to Southwest Virginia. Lovely stretches where young people can make music and participate Recreation Area (occupying more than one county); the Ramblers, Mountain Park Oldtime Band, Cane Mill Road, of the scenic New River meander through this zone. in other fun activities. This is an incredibly fun, New River Trail State Park (beginning in Fries); the aptly- Strictly Strings, Gravel Road, ShadowGrass, Clinchfield Mount Rogers and nearby Whitetop Mountain (elev. 5,518 action packed music festival with a wonderful titled “Back of the Dragon Motorcycle Trail” (Virginia Mountain Boys, Regional JAM Students, Houston feet) are known as the “rooftop” of Virginia and are the community feel. Limited grand stand seating so you State Route 16, between Marion and Tazewell); the Caldwell Scholarship Winners, Austin Tate, Ben Marshall only places in Virginia high enough to be crowned with may want to bring a lawn chair. Camping available 100-feet-high observation tower on Big Walker Mountain, & Friends, Galax Sound with Eddie Bond & Jared a forest of red spruce trees more commonly found in on site. More information at houstonfestgalax.com or Big Walker Lookout (in Wythe County); and the upland Boyd, Galax Flat Footers, Jennifer, Foy & Reva Banks, Canadian forests. call HoustonFest at (276) 236-9908. valley known as Burke’s Garden, a distinctive geological Amber Collins & Branch House Pavilion, Blue Highway area (in Tazewell County). & Young Players, Made & Played in Virginia Luthier The Central Zone is home to three Crooked Road Major Performances, Jeff Little Venues: the Blue Ridge Music Center (along the Blue Ridge Parkway); the Rex Theater (in Galax); and the annual Old Fiddler’s Convention (likewise in Galax) presented every year since 1935 by the Galax Moose

39 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 40 CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE

SHADOWGRASS is a phenomenal youth bluegrass CLAIRE LYNCH, one of the leading singers in band based out of Southwest Virginia and Western contemporary bluegrass, was named Female Vocalist North Carolina. Band members adopted the name of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music “ShadowGrass” in recognition of playing bluegrass Association (IBMA) in 1997, 2010, and 2013. She is

music in the “shadow” of all the great bluegrass also a powerful songwriter, with songs recorded by musicians that lived before them. The band is The Seldom Scene, , Kathy Mattea, comprised of five talented musicians between the Cherryholmes, and . Her career began in the ages of 11 and 16 and it’s clear they are all future 1970s when she launched the influential Front Porch String Band. Take advantage of this opportunity to see All Stars. the Claire Lynch Band as they offically retire at the end of this year.

LEIGH BEAMER is one of the leading carriers of Appalachian song traditions in Southwest Virginia. Residing in Wytheville, Virginia, she has released two albums: Reflections of Me (2010) and I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight (2011). In 2011, she performed on the Roots of American Music Tour along The Crooked Road in Virginia with an all-star cast of Appalachian, African, and Irish artists.

Crooked Road AlL Star Claire Lynch Band, Leigh Beamer Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Bluegrass Band, ShadowGrass Woodrow Wilson and First Lady of the U.S. from 1915 Hosted by: Bland County to 1921, was born in Wytheville in 1872. After President 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Location: Bland County Fairgrounds Wilson suffered a stroke while in office in October 31 Fairground St., Bland 1919 and through the end of the Wilson presidency, Hosted by: The Town of Marion and the played a major role in administering the Lincoln Theatre executive branch of the US government. Location: 117 East Main St., Marion

Can any other comparably sized area in the USA claim as talented an array of bluegrass musicians Steep Canyon Rangers, as the Crooked Road? Indisputably the five musicians who together form The Crooked Road Dori Freeman All Star Bluegrass Band—SAMMY SHELOR (banjo), JUNIOR SISK (guitar and vocals), BILLY BAKER 7PM • $25 (fiddle), WAYNE TAYLOR (bass and vocals), and Hosted by: Blue Ridge Music Center SHAWN LANE (mandolin and vocals)—are among Location: 700 Foothills Rd., Galax (milepost 213 on the finest bluegrass musicians anywhere, with the Blue Ridge Parkway) countless performances in leading venues, numerous influential bluegrass recordings, and an astounding After more than a dozen years together, The STEEP number of major awards to their collective credit. CANYON RANGERS are instantly recognized as These musicians (with the exception of Taylor one of the most successful bluegrass bands touring and Lane) have primarily worked separately, not today. The group’s recordings and dynamic live together. While building their reputations performing performances have earned them many accolades, with other musicians in legendary bluegrass bands including Grammy and IBMA Awards. These talented (Shelor with The Lonesome River Band, Sisk with musicians play progressive bluegrass music firmly BlueRidge, Baker with Bill Monroe and His Blue rooted in tradition, with smart, original songs. Grass Boys, and Taylor and Lane with Blue Highway), these talented natives of Southwest Virginia all love DORI FREEMAN is a 24-year-old singer and to play bluegrass with other musicians who, despite songwriter from Southwest Virginia. While her the competitive nature of the music business, are style subscribes to no single genre, the influence not rivals, but good friends. These five musicians— of her Appalachian upbringing lies at the core of growing up within a culture that values tradition, her music—and her silky voice is simply one of the community, and homemade entertainment—will best to come from the region in decades. Freeman’s enjoy every moment of performing together at the most recently released CD has received nationwide Homecoming, and anyone wanting to hear the most critical acclaim as one of the most anticipated roots/ inspired and inspiring bluegrass music in America country albums of the year by Rolling Stone, No today would be wise not to miss this group. Depression Magazine, NPR’s World Cafe, and the New York Times.

41 • mtnsofmusic.com CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE

Let There Be Light Community Marion Downtown Summer Quilt Challenge Concert Series 12PM – 6PM • FREE 8PM – 10:30PM • FREE Quilts interpreting the theme: “Let There Start the evening at Appalachian Spirit Independence Farmers Market be Light” will be on display. Quilters may Galleries “Alive After Five” Second Fridays The Art of Gourd Banjo Making 9AM – 1PM • FREE interpret the theme in any way and a wide ArtWalk. Listen to local bluegrass music, walk A local grower/producer market, the variety of sizes and techniques are used to through an art exhibit and showcase, eat at a with Jeff Menzies Independence Farmer’s Market is open create the quilts. local downtown restaurant, then make your 9AM – 7PM • $702 Fridays featuring local, naturally raised meats, way to the Farmers Market Pavilion to listen Students will produce a highly playable gourd local and heirloom vegetables, baked goods, to LIVE music! Jarid Reedy, a local musician, banjo of their own design and creation. Each herbs, arts and crafts. Appalachian Arts Center and his band “Hails Lake” will be performing. process is demonstrated in great detail and 2157 Steelburg Hwy, Cedar Bluff, VA 24609 students receive close one-on-one support Contact: [email protected] to assist them with each process. Course Independence Farmers Market 276-596-9188 Marion Farmers Market Pavilion covers historical overview of the banjo and Southwest corner of the intersection of US 21 Town Square Parking Lot, corner of Cherry will discuss the gourd banjo as an instrument and US 58 , Downtown Independence, VA Second Fridays “Alive After Five” and Chestnut Streets, Marion, VA 24354 from the past and present. Pre-registration is Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] required. 276-783-4190 276-773-2471 ArtWalk 5PM – 8PM • FREE Chestnut Creek School of the Arts Walk through downtown Marion and 100 N Main Street, Galax, VA 24333 experience art, crafts, music, jewelry, special Contact: [email protected] east events, exhibits and more. The ArtWalk 276-236-3500 west central begins at Appalachian Spirit Gallery, where local musicians will be pickin’ on the front porch of the gallery, and meanders through Roots of American Music Exhibit downtown shops and restaurants with special Marion Farmers Market 10AM – 5PM • FREE activities and promotions, ending at The Herb See listing description under June 10. House Trading Company. 8AM – 12PM • FREE Exhibit: Galax Fiddlers Marion’s Farmers Market features fresh local Convention: Decades of Music produce from farmers of the area as well as Weekly Participatory Jams locally-made products available for purchase! 9AM - 5PM • FREE Appalachian Spirit Gallery 12PM – 4PM • FREE Shop local and enjoy live bluegrass music. Exhibit will be a historical look at the Galax 144 West Main Street, Marion, VA 24354 See listing description under June 10. Fiddlers Convention, highlighting past Contact: [email protected] winners with various stories, photos and 276-706-2909 recordings. This exhibit is part of CCSA’s Marion Farmers Market Pavilion Ivy Rowe with Barbara Bates Music Making in Galax program, which is Downtown Marion (located in the Town Smith, accompanied by Jeff supported in part by a grant from National Allison Gap Jamboree Square Parking Lot, just behind Macado’s) Endowment for the Arts. 6:30PM • FREE Contact: [email protected] Sebens Bring your instrument and or talent and join 276-783-4190 in the music making, or just sit back and 3PM • $20 experience the rich traditional Appalachian Ivy Rowe” is a stage presentation of Lee Chestnut Creek School of the Arts Roots of American Music Exhibit Smith’s novel, “Fair and Tender Ladies”, and 100 N Main Street, Galax, VA 24333 musical heritage traveling throughout the 10AM – 5PM • FREE is the story of one crusty mountain woman’s Contact: [email protected] gathering. Food is available and coffee is free! See listing description under June 10. life through 20th century Appalachia, with 276-236-3500 musical accompaniment by Jeff Sebens on lap and hammered dulcimer. Reception with

Let There Be Light Community artists following the performance. Roots of American Music Exhibit Saltville Ruritan Club 10AM – 5PM • FREE Saltville, VA 24370 Quilt Challenge Contact: [email protected] Visitors will experience the compelling story 10AM – 6PM • FREE 276-783-3161 Chestnut Creek School of the Arts of the region’s rich musical heritage while See listing description under June 10. 100 N Main Street, Galax, VA 24333 learning about the national significance Contact: [email protected] of music in Blue Ridge Mountain cultural 276-236-3500 heritage. Music listening, the evolution of the Music in the Park Exhibit: Galax Fiddlers banjo and the fiddle included in the exhibit. 7PM – 8PM • FREE Our popular concert series returns! Join us Convention: Decades of Music on the lawn at the Gazebo for great music in 11AM - 3PM • FREE Blue Ridge Music Center the great outdoors. Musical styles range from See listing description under June 10. 700 Foothills Rd. (Mile Marker 213 Blue Ridge and include bluegrass, old tyme, acoustic and Parkway), Galax, VA 24333 more. Be sure to bring a chair or blanket to Contact: [email protected] sit on. Mid Day Mountain Music at Blue Symbol key 276-236-5309 Ridge Music Center Exhibit: Galax Fiddlers Hungry Mother State Park – Gazebo behind 12PM – 4PM • FREE Weekly Participatory Jams the restaurants Experience regional traditional music with the Convention: Decades of Music 12PM – 4PM • FREE 2854 Park Blvd., Marion, VA 24354 Mtn Music Makers on the covered breezeway 9AM - 5PM • FREE The sounds of fiddle, banjo and guitar are Contact: [email protected] of the Visitors Center. See listing description under June 10. likely to welcome you when you visit the 276-781-7415 Blue Ridge Music Center. The music center will host a Bluegrass Jam on the covered Blue Ridge Music Center The Art of Gourd Banjo Making breezeway of the Visitors Center. 700 Foothills Rd. (Mile Marker 213 Blue Ridge with Jeff Menzies Parkway), Galax, VA 24333 9AM – 7PM • $702 schedule also Contact: [email protected] See listing description under June 12. Blue Ridge Music Center 276-236-5309 700 Foothills Rd. (Mile Marker 213 Blue Ridge available online Parkway), Galax, VA 24333 Roots of American Music Exhibit Contact: [email protected] mtnsofmusic.com 10AM – 5PM • FREE 276-236-5309 See listing description under June 10.

43 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 44 CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE CENTRAL ZONE

Mid Day Mountain Music at Blue Salty Dog Jam Wednesday Night Old Time Music Jam Super Jam Wayne Henderson Music Festival & 7PM • FREE 6:30PM – 9:30PM FREE 6PM – 9PM • $5 Ridge Music Center Bring your instruments and talent and join Every Wednesday, the Historic 1908 Beginners and accomplished musicians jam Guitar Competition 12PM – 4PM • FREE in the music making! Or just sit back and Courthouse sponsors an informal Oldtime and share stories about their instruments 10:30AM - 6PM • $20 See listing description under June 11. experience the Contra and Blue Grass music. Mountain Music Jam. In the summer, the jam and the music they are playing (bluegrass Guitar competition and traditional music Don’t forget to bring you dancing shoes! is held on the band stand. Musicians play for and oldtime). Beginners can learn new music, concert which benefits scholarship funds to Smyth County Jam Concessions are available. their own entertainment and plenty of folks rhythms or methods. Flatfoot or clogg to the aid local youth and youth music programs just come to listen or dance. If you play, bring music or just come, sit and enjoy, clap your such as JAM. Our music festival has 6:30 PM • FREE your instrument. hands or stomp your feet. generated over $130,000 in scholarships to Musical event showcasing the various Holston River Coon Club date. musicians and singers in the area while Lake View Drive, Saltville, VA 24370 teaching the aspects of musicianship as well Contact: [email protected] 1908 Courthouse Fries Community Center, West Main Street as encouraging the development of new 276-783-3161 107 E. Main St., Independence, VA 24348 Fries, VA 24330 Grayson Highlands State Park talents. Dancing is welcome! Contact: 276-773-3711 Contact: [email protected] Mouth of Wilson, VA 24363 [email protected] 276-233-1104 Contact: [email protected] 276-579-7092 Chilhowie Lions Club 116 Industrial Park Rd, Chilhowie, VA 24319 Independence Farmers Market Exhibit: Galax Fiddlers Contact: [email protected] 7PM - 9PM • FREE 276-783-3161 See listing description under June 10. Convention: Decades of Music 11AM - 3 PM • FREE On Cloud Nine Mini Music Camp See listing description under June 10. 8:30AM – 4:30PM • 3 DAY TUITION: $150.00 See listing description under June 14. Exhibit: Galax Fiddlers Convention: Decades of Music Marion Farmers Market 8AM – 12PM • FREE Exhibit: Galax Fiddlers 9AM - 5PM • FREE See listing description under June 11. See listing description under June 10. On Cloud Nine Mini Music Camp Convention: Decades of Music On Cloud Nine Mini Music Camp 8:30AM – 4:30PM • 3 DAY TUITION: $150.00 9AM - 5PM • FREE 8:30AM – 4:30PM • 3 DAY TUITION: $150.00 80th Anniversary Celebration Intense 3 day music camp for all levels ages See listing description under June 10. See listing description under June 14. The Art of Gourd Banjo Making 8AM – 9PM • FREE 6-16 featuring certified instructors Eddie 2016 Marks Virginia State Parks’ 80th Bond (fiddle), Brandon Davis (guitar) and with Jeff Menzies Anniversary and Hungry Mother is celebrating Stanley Widener (mandolin and banjo). Daily The Art of Gourd Banjo Making Exhibit: Galax Fiddlers 9AM – 7PM • $702 with activities including a ribbon cutting at lessons and workshops focused on improving See listing description under June 12. with Jeff Menzies our new Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) musician skills with fun free time and jams. Convention: Decades of Music 9AM – 7PM • $702 9AM - 5 PM • FREE signs, a new geocache scavenger hunt, and See listing description under June 12. See listing description under June 10. Roots of American Music Exhibit of course, birthday cake! Come out and celebrate 80 years of history here at Hungry On Cloud Nine Mini Kids Music Camp 10AM – 5PM • FREE Mother State Park. Mid Day Mountain Music at Blue 328 Golden Eagle Lane Roots of American Music Exhibit The Art of Gourd Banjo Making See listing description under June 10. Independence, VA 24348 10AM – 5PM • FREE Ridge Music Center Contact: [email protected] • 276-768-6887 See listing description under June 10. with Jeff Menzies Weekly Participatory Jams Hungry Mother State Park 12PM – 4PM • FREE See listing description under June 11. 9AM – 7PM • $702 12PM – 4PM • FREE 2854 Park Blvd., Marion, VA 24354 Exhibit: Galax Fiddlers Mid Day Mountain Music at Blue See listing description under June 12. See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] 276-781-7415 Convention: Decades of Music Ridge Music Center The Art of the Book Roots of American Music Exhibit 3PM – 4PM • $10/$15 9AM - 5PM • FREE 12PM – 4PM • FREE Let There Be Light Community See listing description under June 11. 10AM – 5PM • FREE Experience Art & Music Wythe-In In this demonstration, professional book See listing description under June 10. See listing description under June 10. Quilt Challenge 10AM – 3PM, WITH CONTINUED CONCERTS artist, Becca Imbur, will take participants 12PM – 6PM • FREE AT THE CHAUTAUQUA FESTIVAL UNTIL through the process of creating a book from The Art of Gourd Banjo Making Let There Be Light Community Mid Day Mountain Music at Blue See listing description under June 10. 11PM • FREE cover to binding the pages. Quilt Challenge Join the town of Wytheville in celebrating the with Jeff Menzies Ridge Music Center opening day of the 32nd Annual Chautauqua 12PM – 6PM • FREE Allison Gap Jamboree Black Horse Artisan Guild, LLC 9AM – 7PM • $702 12PM – 4PM • FREE Festival with bluegrass music at the Bolling See listing description under June 10. 6:30PM • FREE 115 East Main Street, Wytheville, VA 24382 See listing description under June 12. See listing description under June 11. Wilson Hotel, youth art at the Black Horse Bring your instrument and or talent and join Artisan Guild, the Wytheville Farmer’s Gospel Singing in the Park in the music making, or just sit back and Market and special art/photography contest Roots of American Music Exhibit experience the rich traditional Appalachian highlighting mountain music and musicians. 6PM – 9PM • FREE Let There Be Light Community 10AM – 5PM • FREE musical heritage traveling throughout the Join Valley Grass and Front Porch Gospel A workshop for first time cloggers will also Symbol key See listing description under June 10. Quilt Challenge gathering. Food is available and coffee is for Gospel Singing in the Park. Concessions be held. 12PM – 6PM • FREE free! COMMUNITY MEAL available. See listing description under June 10. Mid Day Mountain Music at Blue Downtown Wytheville, Inc VISUAL OR PERFORMING ARTS Ridge Music Center Downtown Saltville Stage Contact: [email protected] Town of Chilhowie Walking Taste of the Town 146 Palmer Ave., Saltville, VA 24370 Railroad Avenue, Chilhowie, VA 24319 276-620-5864 AGRITOURISM 12PM – 4PM • FREE 6PM • $25 Contact: 276-783-3161 Contact: [email protected] See listing description under June 11. Tour Downtown Marion for a four course [email protected] 276-783-3161 PARTICIPATORY EVENT progressive meal. We will sample appetizers, Roots of American Music Exhibit entrees, desserts and drinks along the way! Let There Be Light Community Music in the Park 10AM – 5PM • FREE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY See listing description under June 10. Quilt Challenge 7PM – 8PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. OUTDOOR EVENT 12PM – 6PM • FREE Downtown Marion See listing description under June 10. east 214 West Main Street, Marion, VA 24354 Let There Be Light Community west central Contact: [email protected] CULTURAL FOOD EVENT 276-783-3161 Quilt Challenge 10AM – 6PM • FREE COMMUNITY MEAL See listing description under June 10.

45 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 46 JUST FOR FUN

Or “You’re not from around here, are you?”

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Mark Twain’s famous quote could also apply to the way we pronounce words. People take pride in their place names, because it is part of their history, part of who they are. So here is a primer to help you navigate through your visit to The Crooked Road talking like you’ve lived here all your life. And don’t worry, we mangle names here all the time ourselves, so if you stumble, you’ll fit right in.

ABINGDON: All you have to do here is pay attention. That’s a “d,” not a “t.”

APPALACHIA: This is kind of a biggie, so if you only have time to study up on one word, this is probably it. Writer Sharyn McCrumb often describes the importance of names when visitors in Ireland ask directions to a certain town by referring to it as either Derry or Londonderry. The minute they choose one or the other, they are actually making a political statement and revealing quite a lot about themselves. Sharyn is a tireless advocate for the local preference for calling it Ap-pa-”latch”-ia, not Ap-pa-“lay”-chia. Just remember, if you get it wrong, someone might throw an “apple-atcha.”

BUCHANAN: If Bew is not for yew, then you may get this one. Rhymes with “the cannon.”

CRITZ: “it’s Critz like lights, not Critz like grits.”

DANTE: A historical coal town, this one stumps many a well read visitor. Don’t think Inferno. Imagine your hike up Birch Knob has made you “pant.” Hard core locals even rhyme it with “paint.”

FRIES: If you sound like you’re ordering fast food, you’ve got it all wrong. Think “Freeze.”

GALAX: Named for the lovely plant used in floral decorations and once shipped in mass quantities from the City of Galax all over America. If you rhyme it with Alex you’ll be arrested immediately by the pronunciation police. If you say “Gulax with the accent on the “lax” you won’t even get a trial. Say “Gay” lax.

GILES: Named for William Branch Giles, former Governor of Virginia. If he were alive, he would also want you to make it rhyme with “files” using a “J” sound for the “G.”

BLUEGRASS AND OLD TIME MUSIC GLADE SPRING: You probably won’t miss-pronounce this, but there is only one. Airs Saturday from 8-10 PM and Sunday from 2-4 PM on WVTF. Frequencies HAYSI: If you have a love affair with hay that makes you sigh, you’ll get this one right. include 89.1 (Roanoke and NRV), 91.9 (Marion, Wytheville, Galax), 90.5 (Wise and HONAKER: This town name derives from early German settlers with family names commonly spelled Honnegger, but large numbers of Scots-Irish settlers eventually changed it to Honaker. Rhymes with “Hoe- Coeburn), and 90.1 (Abingdon, Bristol) taker,” and bears no resemblance to the pronunciation for the Jewish holiday. Although again, even locals get a kick out of saying “Hanukker,” so if you slip up and say it wrong, just pretend you were making a joke. Then slip out the back as quick as possible.

As a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, The Crooked Road organization appreciates donations to its LEBANON: Pronounce this town’s name with -nin not –non. Believers program to help support its work. SMYTH: If rhyming say “with.” Donations may be made online at www.thecrookedroadsupport.org TAZEWELL: If you say it right, you’ll say it “az-well” as the locals do. or mailed to The Crooked Road, One Heartwood Circle, Abingdon, Classical, Jazz, NPR Virginia, 24210. WYTHE/WYTHEVILLE: Sounds like “with” or “with-ville,” though locals enjoy miss-pronouncing it as wvtf.org “withy-ville.”

June 10-18, 2016 • 48 EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE

Floyd, Franklin, Giles, Montgomery, Patrick, and Pulaski Counties and the City of Radford Five Mile Mt. Road, Yates Family Crooked Road All-Star 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Bluegrass Band Hosted by: Blue Ridge Institute & Museum at Festival. Numerous affiliated venues and festivals Ferrum College 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 dot the landscape in the East Zone as well. Location: Sale Auditorium in Schoolfield Hall, Hosted by: Reynolds Homestead Center 200 Wiley Dr., Ferrum Location: 463 Homestead Ln, Critz The East Zone is home to several sites of historical and cultural significance: the birthplace of Booker FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN ROAD, a string band based Can any other comparably sized area in the USA T. Washington (near the town of Hardy); the in Boones Mill, Virginia, brings a fiery intensity to a claim as talented an array of bluegrass musicians as Smithfield Plantation (near Blacksburg); the repertoire full of dance tunes, older country material, the Crooked Road? Indisputably the five musicians memorial monument commemorating the life of western swing, and bluegrass. Award-winning fiddler who together form THE CROOKED ROAD ALL STAR — (banjo), frontierswoman Mary Draper Ingles (in Radford’s Billy Hurt plays like a thing possessed when the BLUEGRASS BAND SAMMY SHELOR features, as its eastern half, a music gets rolling good, and the entire band follows JUNIOR SISK (guitar and vocals), BILLY BAKER The East Zone West End Cemetery); Calfee Park, the ninth oldest prominent section of the Blue Ridge mountain suit with Brennen Ernst on guitar and banjo, Steven (fiddle), WAYNE TAYLOR (bass and vocals), and baseball stadium in the US (in Pulaski); Lover’s spine, while its western half is within Appalachia’s Dowdy on bass, and Seth Boyd on banjo and guitar. SHAWN LANE (mandolin and vocals)—are among the Leap Scenic Overlook (in Patrick County); Mabry long Ridge and Valley Province; bisecting this finest bluegrass musicians anywhere, with countless Mill, one of the most photographed buildings in the performances in leading venues, numerous influential zone is one natural landmark (the New River, one THE YATES FAMILY BAND highlights the truly lovely US (along the Blue Ridge Parkway); distinctively harmony singing of daughters Molly and Sadie and a bluegrass recordings, and an astounding number of of the oldest rivers on Earth) and two manmade major awards to their collective credit. These musicians shaped Buffalo Mountain, which inspired the delightful hybrid sound derived from the bluegrass passageways: the Blue Ridge Parkway and the (with the exception of Taylor and Lane) have primarily popular inspirational book The Man Who Moved guitar stylings of Tim Yates (proud papa) and old Appalachian Trail. The East Zone is home to three worked separately, not together. While building A Mountain (Floyd County), (in time banjo style of Debbie Yates (proud mama). Crooked Road Major Venues. their reputations performing with other musicians in Blacksburg); and (in Radford). legendary bluegrass bands (Shelor with The Lonesome Both these groups are carrying on some of the In Floyd are the Floyd Country Store, which River Band, Sisk with BlueRidge, Baker with Bill Monroe most valuable traditions of The Crooked Road with features year-round old time music and dancing, and His Blue Grass Boys, and Taylor and Lane with Blue great skill. Highway), these talented natives of Southwest Virginia and County Sales, one of the earliest and largest all love to play bluegrass with other musicians who, mail-order retailers of American roots music. despite the competitive nature of the music business, Another Major Venue is the Blue Ridge Institute are not rivals, but good friends. These five musicians— & Museum at Ferrum College which serves as the growing up within a culture that values tradition, State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore. Located community, and homemade entertainment—will enjoy at Ferrum College, this organization implements every moment of performing together at the Homecoming, special events, workshops, and museum exhibits and anyone wanting to hear the most inspired and and annually sponsors the Blue Ridge Folklife inspiring bluegrass music in America today would be wise to be on the Crooked Road this June.

49 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 50 EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE

of the strings in constant vibration around his lead the U.S. and Europe before becoming a Maryland playing. VICTORIA “TORI” BARTFAI, from Cedar resident. This group brings the pure joy of authentic Bluff in Tazewell County, has studied music in New Irish music to the fore. York City, and as a guitarist, her clean and precise

style has been influenced by a range of musical genres, from bluegrass, rock, and jazz, to classical. Rounding out this great collection of guitarists will be two-time national flatpicking guitar champion SCOTT FORE, a Radford, Virginia-resident who resides in the upper echelon of guitarists that grace the cover of national guitar magazines.

Photo by: [email protected] Courtesy Virginia Tourism Corporation

TCR Guitar masters concert fairfield four, ada sherman - Wayne Henderson, Gerald 7PM • $15 in advance, $20 after May 31, 2016 Hosted by: Pulaski Theatre Anderson, Ralph Stanley II, J.C. Jesse McReynolds & the Location: 14 West Main St., Pulaski THE FAIRFIELD FOUR is a historic and celebrated Poff, Tori Bartfai, Scott Fore Virginia Boys African American gospel vocal group that has been in existence for nearly a century, having originally 7PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 John Doyle Trio; Rose Conway 7PM • $20 formed as a trio in 1921 in Nashville’s Fairfield Baptist Hosted by: Mt. Lake Lodge Hosted by: Floyd Country Store Church. The group has maintained their authenticity Location: Mountain Lake Lodge, Gazebo Lawn, Flanagan, Laura Byrne & Pat Egan Location: 206 South Locust St., Floyd by carrying on the traditional performance stylings (Mary’s Barn rain location) 115 Hotel Circle, associated with early- and mid-twentieth century Pembroke Bring a lawn chair or blanket 7PM • $15 in advance, $20 after May 31, 2016 JESSE MCREYNOLDS is renowned for being part of African American gospel trios, quartets, and Hosted by: Harvester Performance Center and Town the successful bluegrass duo Jim and Jesse and also quintets. Singing as a crew of gravediggers in the This second concert of Southwest Virginia master of Rocky Mount for his influential mandolin style. Born and raised hit movie “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” brought guitarists to be held during the Mountains of Music Location: 450 Franklin St, Rocky Mount near Coeburn, Virginia, in the small community of them to the attention of appreciative new audiences. Homecoming will feature six additional guitar talents Carfax, Jesse and his older brother Jim grew up Their Grammy-winning career and collaborations with a wonderful variety of styles, including two Grammy Award-nominated Irish musician and surrounded by traditional music and went on to with artists such as and Amy Grant led players who are also renowned makers of guitars. songwriter JOHN DOYLE, a native of Dublin, Ireland, become stars. Early in their career, to their induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame WAYNE HENDERSON, one of the acclaimed luthiers, is one of the leading performers of Irish music. Doyle Jesse developed a “McReynolds style” technique on in 1999. is a recipient of the National Endowment for the played guitar for four years with the popular Irish- the mandolin, combining cross-picking and split- Arts National Heritage Award, and a masterful American band Solas before leaving that band to string playing to permit fast execution of intricate ADA SHERMAN of McCoy, Virginia is a regionally finger-style guitar player who has performed at work as a solo artist. The John Doyle Trio—featuring melodic patterns. At last year’s Homecoming, Jesse beloved singer of gospel music whose gentle and Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of “Masters of Doyle on guitar and vocals, Duncan Wickel on fiddle, gave a solo mandolin performance of the Star lovely spirit lights up a room whenever she sits at the Steel-String Guitar,” and in seven nations in Asia. and David Curley on vocals, bodhran, mando, and Spangled Banner, the first time he had ever done so. the piano to sing and play. Ada is a featured subject His guitar-making counterpart, Troutdale, Virginia- banjo—will play a range of Celtic ballads, songs, and Still perfecting his craft! Don’t miss Jesse’s first ever in the book Keepers of the Tradition: Portraits resident GERALD ANDERSON has many records tunes, and Curley will likely take a turn or two as a performance at the Floyd Country Store. of Contemporary Appalachians, a collaboration and guitar playing awards to his credit, such as step dancer. between portrait artist Leslie Roberts Gregg and contest winner at the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention. author Michael Abraham. Natural talent and many RALPH STANLEY II grew up around the Stanley Acclaimed fiddlerROSE CONWAY FLANAGAN years of performing for her Southwest Virginia Brothers tradition and is a master of the cross-pick was a founding member of the popular Celtic band church community have helped her achieve a level of style pioneered by former Stanley Brothers guitarist Cherish the Ladies. Recently inducted into the accomplishment usually reserved for highly trained George Shuffler. After playing guitar in his father’s Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Mid-Atlantic Region artists rather than a self-taught musician as she in band, the Clinch Mountain Boys, Ralph II went solo, Hall of Fame, Flanagan released Forget Me Not, fact is. Watch out Ada, and don’t let the Fairfield and has thus far released six albums. Guitarist J. an album with the Baltimore, Maryland-based Four steal you back to Tennessee! C. POFF, a Christiansburg, Virginia-resident who flute playerLAURA BYRNE, a two-time recipient once owned a regionally significant music store in of the Maryland State Arts Council grant in solo Christiansburg, plays a unique style that features performance. Originally from Ireland’s County an unusually full sound generated by keeping most Tipperary, singer and guitarist PAT EGAN toured

51 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 52 EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE

Get ready for a party! The “Mountains of Music Note: The following event begins on Main” is a full day of music on Main Street in BEFORE the start of the Mountains downtown Christiansburg with bluegrass by some of of Music Homecoming on June 10. the genre’s finest. For 45 years the iconicSELDOM SCENE have been leading legions of urban followers to bluegrass with their progressive material and style. Christiansburg High School graduates and brothers Ronnie and now play with the Scene. Beach Music Festival 35th Annual Hot Fun in the Summertime OLEN AND FRANCES GARDNER have been 6PM • SAVE WITH WEEKEND PASS fronting great bands for decades playing traditional ADV. $45 AT GATE $55 • ADV. TICKETS bluegrass songs and lively instrumentals, with classic THURSDAY $15 • FRIDAY $20 • SATURDAY hymns mixed in for good measure. Always a lover $30 - AT GATE THURSDAY $20 • FRIDAY $25 • SATURDAY $35 of great fiddle music and fiddle players, Olen has an The oldest continuous festival held in extensive repertoire of fiddle tunes on the banjo, in Southwest VA, now celebrating 35 years both melodic and the older Scruggs styles. Frances of your favorite live beach music in the uses her very pure and pleasantly unadorned singing beautiful Appalachian country setting. Come “Experience the Simple Life” for one day or voice to great effect on the songs she carefully join us for all 3 days of LIVE music, with Band chooses to fit her style. Clean lines rather than of Oz, The Tams, Ken Knox & Co. (Chairman vocal gymnastics is a quality sometimes missing in of the Board), Castaways, and more, vendors traditional singers, but Frances has that in spades. and food. It will be the best time you’ll ever Seldom Scene, Olen & Frances have… ‘til next year. The dynamic all female group LOOSE STRINGS hails Gardner, Loose Strings, Cox & from the Galax area and their tight harmony singing Wayside Park 332 Wayside Park Rd., Stuart, VA 24171 along with their high level bluegrass chops will make Contact: [email protected] Company your ears smile. 276-692-7322

3PM • $12 in advance, $15 after May 31, 2016 Nothing but great bluegrass music comes from COX Hosted by: Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller AND COMPANY, composed of some very seasoned Regional Art Center and Montgomery County pickers. Having learned from the best, former Doyle Regional Tourism Office Lawson and Quicksilver member Joey Cox now leads Location: Main Street, Downtown Christiansburg this excellent group. Quilt Exhibit 9AM – 5PM • FREE Handmade quilts will be on display at Quilted Colors for public viewing and purchasing.

Quilted Colors 107 N. Main Street, Stuart, Virginia 24171 Contact: [email protected] 276-694-3020 Art and Craft Demonstrations 10AM – 4PM • FREE Local craftspersons and artisans will be set up in the Blacksmithing Forge, Ceramics Studio and Hot Glass Studio to demonstrate their craft. Talk to the demonstrators as they Booker T. Washington, who was born a slave in 1856 in Franklin heat steel in coal fired forges, hand build and Symbol key throw pottery on the wheel, and melt glass County, rose to prominence as the most influential African rod with a bench torch.

American of his generation. An educator, orator, and noted author The Jacksonville Center for the Arts 220 Parkway Lane South, Suite 1A of the best-selling book Up From Slavery, Washington in 1901 Floyd, VA 24091 Contact: (540) 745-2784 became the first African American to be invited to the White House [email protected] to participate in a formal meal.

east west central

53 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 54 EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE

Guitar and Fiddle Making at Windy Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods Beach Music Festival 35th Annual Riverstone Organic Farm Tour Virginia Cheese Festival Tracing Our Roots: A Tour of Hill GuitarWorks Open House Hot Fun in the Summertime and Tastings 11AM – 4PM $20 ADVANCE / Laurel Branch Road $25 AT THE GATE 10AM – 4PM • OTHER TIMES AVAILABLE BY 10AM – 5PM • FREE 6:00 • SAVE WITH WEEKEND PASS 10AM – 3PM • FREE Celebrate National Dairy Month by enjoying 1PM – 4PM • $20 APPOINTMENT • FREE Learn about the furniture making process in ADV. $45 AT GATE $55 -- ADV. TICKETS Enjoy a day on a working farm situated in a local and national artisan cheeses at Historical tour featuring stories of the area’s Visit a working guitar and fiddle maker’s this woodworking shop featuring hand-made THURSDAY $15; FRIDAY $20; SATURDAY high valley at the headwaters of Little River in this event for all ages. Featuring cheese first 18th and 19th century settlers, their shop and learn about guitar and fiddle design furniture crafted with traditional methods $30 - AT GATE THURSDAY $20; FRIDAY $25; Floyd, VA. Farm Tour and Tastings featuring samplings, pairings and accompaniments, homes, farms, churches and schools; and the and construction, woods, tools, jigs and from local Virginia hardwoods. Woodworking SATURDAY $35 a meet-and-greet with the farmers, a guided wineries, live music, educational cheese impact of the Civil War. other materials used and participate in a jam demos all day. From Slab Stools, to Beds, See listing description under June 9. tour and samplings of farm products. chats, vendors and local artists and children’s session on the picking porch overlooking Tables, and Cutting Boards, there’s something activities. the Little River. There will be guitars, , for everyone! Friday Night Jamboree Topeco Church of the Brethren banjos, , ukuleles and a bass Phoenix Hardwoods Woodworking Shop Riverstone Organic Farm 3460 Floyd Highway S, Floyd, VA 24091 available to play. 2540 Floyd Hwy North, Floyd, VA 24091 6:30PM – 10:30PM • $5 708 Thompson Rd, Floyd, VA 24091 Hilton Garden Inn Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] An outstanding and authentic experience Contact: (540) 267-4432 900 Plantation Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060 540-789-7552 540-745-7475 shared by old timers and new visitors alike. [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Windy Hill GuitarWorks Participants can join in a square dance, 540-443-2008 446 Sowers Mill Dam Road, Riner, VA 24149 sit and enjoy the live old time music and Daylily Garden Seminar Contact: [email protected] The Way We Worked participate in workshops on flatfoot dancing Art and Craft Demonstrations 2PM – 3PM • FREE 703-731-6846 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS and old time music performance and history. 10AM – 4PM • FREE schedule also available online Learn about daylilies, including some general This exhibit documents the lives of ordinary See listing description under June 10. gardening tips. Following the presentation, an working Americans, and it explores how optional self-guided tour of the 2-acre field Floyd Artisan Trail- June Tour work became a central element in American Floyd Country Store mtnsofmusic.com grown daylily garden is open to everyone. 10AM – 5PM • FREE culture. The exhibit also traces the many 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 Franklin County Court Days The June Artisan Trail Tour is a 3-day tour changes that have affected the workforce Contact: [email protected] 10AM – 4PM • FREE featuring over 40 sites across Floyd County and work environment over the past 150 540-745-4563 Visitors to Court Days will experience a day The Way We Worked Wildwood Farms General Store area with activities at artisan home studios; years. full of local culture including a vibrant farmers 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS 2380 Floyd Hwy S., Floyd, VA 24091 galleries and shops; wineries; farms and farm market, authentic shops and restaurants, See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] markets; and restaurant and lodging sites. Willis Gap Community Center Open local artists, artisans and crafters, live music, 540-745-5155 The Raymond F. Ratcliffe Transporation Jam jam sessions, kid’s games, storytelling and Museum many more local customs. Giles Mountain Vineyard and The Jacksonville Center for the Arts 55 Commerce Street, Pulaski, VA 24301 7PM – 10PM • FREE Henry Reed Memorial Fiddlers 220 Parkway Lane South, Suite 1A Contact: [email protected] Located minutes from Andy Griffith’s Winery Tastings and Tours hometown Mount Airy, NC and the Blue Convention Floyd, VA 24091 540-994-8931 Rocky Mount Farmers Market 11AM – 5PM • FREE Ridge Parkway, Patrick County, VA, join in an 3:00 PM • ADMISSION IS $8 PER Contact: (540) 745-2784 435 Franklin Street, Rocky Mount, VA 24151 Tours of the vineyard with emphasis on the open jam directed by Mr. Otto Hiatt. Bring PERSON PER DAY/ $15 FOR WEEKEND. [email protected] Contact: [email protected] importance of Giles county location and soil. “By Ear & By Heart” Exhibit your instruments (acoustic), your voice – or CONTESTANTS PAY $15. CAMPING IS AN 540-420-8657 Wine tastings and information about pairing 2PM - 5PM • FREE both - as Bluegrass, Country, Old Time and wines with traditional, local cuisine. ADDITIONAL $10 PER PERSON PER NIGHT Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries View a hundred years’ worth of stories, Gospel are played during the open jam. (ROUGH) OR $15 PER PERSON PER NIGHT 10AM – 5PM • FREE photos, and songs on music makers of Floyd Dancing is permitted and concessions are Guitar and Fiddle Making at Windy (ELECTRIC, LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE). Take a rare glimpse into the grand era of County including singing school masters, available. Giles Mountain Vineyard and Winery THE 2-DAY FIDDLE WORKSHOP IS $40 canning with video interviews, labels, vintage banjo pickers, instrument makers, and the Hill GuitarWorks 290 Moye Road, Staffordsville, VA See listing description under June 10. canning equipment, and historic photographs earliest recording artists. Hear recordings by 10AM – 4PM • OTHER TIMES AVAILABLE BY Contact: [email protected] from the small commercial canneries that Blind Alfred Reed, Elder Golden Harris, and Willis Gap Community Center APPOINTMENT • FREE (540) 267-4125 Live Bluegrass Music, Local Band - connected Virginia farmers to markets across the Floyd County Ramblers. Bluegrass Hall 144 The Hollow Road, Ararat, VA 24053 See listing description under June 10. America from the late 1800s to the 1950s. of Fame songwriter, Randall Hylton, is also Contact: 276-692-6561 Cox & Company featured. [email protected] Beach Music Festival 35th Annual Floyd Artisan Trail- June Tour 7PM – 9PM • FREE Hot Fun in the Summertime Live music performances by local bands that 10AM – 5PM • FREE Blue Ridge Institute & Museum of Ferrum Chuck Johnson & Charlyhorse in perform music local to the region including College Old Church Gallery See listing description under June 10. 12PM • SAVE WITH WEEKEND PASS ADV. $45 AT GATE $55 -- ADV. TICKETS Bluegrass, Oldtime Bluegrass and Bluegrass 20 Museum Drive, Ferrum, VA 24088 110 Wilson Street, Floyd, VA 24091 Concert Gospel. Come listen to Cox & Company and Contact: [email protected] Contact: 540-745-2979 THURSDAY $15; FRIDAY $20; SATURDAY 8PM – 11PM • $5 Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries $30 - AT GATE THURSDAY $20; FRIDAY $25; do some flat-footing on the dance floor! 540-365-4412 A concert featuring regional Americana band 10AM – 5PM • FREE SATURDAY $35 Chuck Johnson & Charlyhorse. Henry Reed Memorial Fiddlers See listing description under June 10. See listing description under June 9. Oxen in the Blue Ridge Weekend at Wildwood Farms General Store Convention 2380 Floyd Hwy S., Floyd, VA 24091 the Blue Ridge Farm Museum 5PM • ADMISSION IS $8 PER PERSON PER Dogtown Roadhouse Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods The Re-”Placing” of Solitude Contact: [email protected] 10AM – 5PM • $5 DAY/ $15 FOR WEEKEND. CONTESTANTS 302 South Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 Festival 540-745-5155 Experience the rare opportunity to watch PAY $15. CAMPING IS AN ADDITIONAL Contact: 540-745-6836, [email protected] Open House teams of oxen being trained and driven by $10 PER PERSON PER NIGHT (ROUGH) OR 10AM – 5PM • FREE 12PM – 7PM • FREE Old Time Country Dance with The their owners and other aspiring teamsters $15 PER PERSON PER NIGHT (ELECTRIC, See listing description under June 10. This festival will feature crafts, from throughout the Mid-Atlantic and see LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE). THE 2-DAY demonstrations, and music events including Zephyr Lightning Bolts FIDDLE WORKSHOP IS $40. building tours, woodcarving, music costumed interpreters carry out living-history 7:30PM • $5 14th Annual Fiddlers Convention honoring Make-N-Take Everyday Ornament instrument making, spinning, Blacksmithing, tasks typical of daily rural life in the region in Old Time Dance with The Zephyr Lightning the life and music of local old time fiddler 11AM – 2PM • FREE Chair bottom weaving, herbals, gospel music, the year 1800. Bolts, an Old Time band that plays traditional Henry Reed features old time and bluegrass Local artisan Lora Mahaffey will guide the and bluegrass history through its music. Old Time music that includes knockdown bands and individual and band competitions participants through the creation of their Displays, demonstrations and performances tunes for flat footing, ballads for waltzes and as well as family-friendly fun activities over own souvenir of their time on the Crooked showcase activities that probably occurred Blue Ridge Farm Museum at the Blue Ridge Quilt Exhibit two-steps, jigs and reels for square dances the weekend. Fiddle workshop will also be Road while music played will feature local in this area, particularly at Solitude and Institute & Museum of Ferrum College 9AM – 5PM • FREE and Virginia Reels, and old gospel songs for held on Friday and Saturday. artists, including Mahaffey, and treats will be the other Preston homes (Smithfield and Ferrum College See listing description under June 10. the audience to sing along. 20 Museum Drive, Ferrum, VA 24088 available for sale from our local bakers. Whitethorne) circa 1855. Contact: [email protected] 540-365-4412 Newport Recreation Center “By Ear & By Heart” Exhibit Floyd Country Store 434 Blue Grass Trail, Newport, VA 24128 Mattie B’s LLC Solitude house and grounds on the Virginia 10AM - 1PM • FREE 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 Contact: [email protected] 105 N. Main Street, Stuart, VA 24171 Tech campus See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] 540-921-0166 Contact: 276-694-4438 705 West Campus Drive, Virginia Tech 540-745-4563 [email protected] Blacksburg, VA 24061 Contact: [email protected] 540-231-9526

55 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 56 EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE

Contra Dancing Floyd Artisan Trail- June Tour 8PM – 11PM • BEGINNER LESSON AT 7:35 • 12PM – 5PM • FREE $5-8 See listing description under June 10. Blue Ridge Country Dancers sponsored Contra Dance with caller Gretchen Caldwell with band Big Celtic Fun. Contra dancing is Mountain Music Down on the suitable for all ages, wear soft flexible shoes Farm for dancing and the caller will teach each dance. Come to dance or come to listen - no 12PM – 5PM • FREE partner needed. Free Concert from 2-5pm featuring Bluegrass and Old Timey Music with “bigmama joy” under a lovely timber frame pavilion. Artisan The Jacksonville Center for the Arts booths will also be on site. 220 Parkway Lane South, Suite 1A Floyd, VA 24091 Contact: (540) 745-2784 Apple Ridge Farm [email protected] 9230 Pine Forrest Rd., Copper Hill, VA 24079 Bluegrass Music Jam Contact: [email protected] 540-982-1322 4PM • FREE The Floyd Country Store hosts a Bluegrass Jam led by Ben Silcox. Over the years Chateau Morrisette presents The Ben Silcox has made numerous stand-in appearances with some Bluegrass heavy Whitetop Mountain Band hitters including Jimmy Martin, Hylo Brown, 1PM – 4PM • FREE Ralph Stanley, , and Johnny Relax while listening to the popular Whitetop Williams. Bring your instrument and join in! Quilt Exhibit Mountain Band, a family-based band that 9AM – 5PM • FREE performs with energy while showcasing See listing description under June 10. old time fiddling, banjo picking and even Floyd Country Store authentic mountain dancing. Guests should 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 bring their own seating. The winery and Contact: [email protected] Art and Craft Demonstrations restaurant will be open. Tastings, Sunday 540-745-4563 10AM – 4PM • FREE brunch, and shopping will be offered. See listing description under June 10. Old Time Gospel Music Night Chateau Morrisette 6PM • FREE Guitar and Fiddle Making at Windy 287 Winery Rd., Floyd, VA 24091 One hour long event of music with various Contact: [email protected] local participants and church members Hill GuitarWorks 540-593-9223 performing a variety of old time and southern 10AM – 4PM • OTHER TIMES AVAILABLE BY gospel songs, vocals and instrumentals. APPOINTMENT • FREE See listing description under June 10. Flag Day Celebration and Fairystone Baptist Church Bluegrass Concert 82 Fairystone Church Loop, Stuart, VA 24171 Boones Mill Car Show 1PM – 7PM • $2 GATE FEE • $8 HOUSE Contact: 276-930-2668 10AM – 5PM • FREE FOR PUBLIC • FEE FOR TOURS CAR ENTRY Day features an interactive Historic Flag Car show featuring classic cars, performances Display on the grounds, Blacksmith Open Mic Night by local roots music performers, vintage car Demonstrations, Cannon Firing from the 7PM – 11PM • FREE rides and burnout demonstrations. Food Giles Artillery, Live Bluegrass from Indian Run Open Mic Night features local talented featuring local produce. Stringband, a Civil War Era Brass Band, and musicians playing for an appreciative square dancing. House tours available of the audience. All skill levels are welcome and this 1774 Manor House for regular tour fees - $8. is an excellent way for folks to experience the 20 Main Street, Boones Mill, VA 24065 Food Truck also on premises. musicianship of our culturally rich region. Contact: [email protected] 540-334-1013 Historical Smithfield Plantation Dogtown Roadhouse 1000 Smithfield Plantation Road 302 South Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 Oxen in the Blue Ridge Weekend at Blacksburg, VA Contact: 540-745-6836 the Blue Ridge Farm Museum [email protected] 10AM – 5PM • $5 Old Time Music Jam See listing description under June 10. 1:30 • FREE A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed Old Time Jam led by Mac Traynham, an 7:30PM • $10 Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries accomplished fiddler and banjo player as Join us at The Floyd Country Store for a well as a fine guitar player and singer, with a Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed, Appalachian 10AM – 5PM • FREE hard-driving style of playing which keeps the Visionary and Floyd County native. This See listing description under June 10. rhythm going strongly and delights dancers! concert will celebrate Reed’s life and music, Bring your instrument and join in! from his important recordings at the 1927 Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods Bristol Sessions to Reed’s other works, including his definitive Depression Era song Open Hous Floyd Country Store “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 10AM – 5PM • FREE Live”. [email protected] See listing description under June 10. Contact: 540-745-4563 Floyd Country Store The Way We Worked 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS Contact: [email protected] See listing description under June 10. 540-745-4563

57 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 58 EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE

Afternoon Arts Market Square Jam Musical Jam Sessions Bushels and Barrels Pearisburg Festival in the Park 4PM – 5PM • $3 8PM – 10PM • FREE 6PM – 8PM • FREE 6PM – 11PM • FREE An inexpensive and fun activity for kids! The Indian Run String Band hosts Informal jam sessions where everyone takes Sustainability Workshop 32nd annual festival featuring two days of Geared toward Pre-K to 5th grade, this Blacksburg’s Market Square Jam, a Crooked a turn playing a combination of old time, 8AM – 5PM • $10 PER SESSION • $40 FOR Folk and Americana music as well as food, weekly, a one hour art class is drop in style, Road affiliated venue providing traditional bluegrass, country and gospel music. The THE ENTIRE DAY’S WORKSHOP entertainment, vendors, rides, local artists, so each class is a new theme. old time music and dancing. The jam brings public is encouraged to come and listen and 3rd annual Sustainability Workshop designed farmer’s market and car show. Quilt Exhibit in musicians of all levels and all types to pick dance. to provide learning opportunities for those 9AM – 5PM • FREE tunes and enjoy fun times with friends and interested in learning about cultural food See listing description under June 10. The Jacksonville Center for the Arts family. skills, sustainable living and gardening, and Pearisburg Community Center 220 Parkway Lane South, Suite 1A Musical Jam other topics including composting, home 1410 Wenonah Avenue, Pearisburg, VA 24134 Floyd, VA 24091 44 4th Street NW, Pulaski, VA 24301 brewing, seed saving, medicinal herbs. Contact: [email protected] Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries Contact: (540) 745-2784 Market Square Park Contact: [email protected] 540-921-1222 10AM – 5PM • FREE [email protected] 102 Draper Rd. NW, Blacksburg, VA 24060 540-994-8631 See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] Reynolds Homestead 540-961-1199 463 Homestead Lane, Critz, VA 24082 Friday Night Jamboree Community Barn Dance Old Time Music Jam Contact: [email protected] 6:30PM – 10:30PM • $5 Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods 7PM – 9PM • FREE 7PM – 9PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. Open House A fully interactive community barn dance Old Time Music Jam every Thursday night. featuring Floyd County’s own, Back Porch All participants and spectators are welcome 10AM – 5PM • FREE Cloggers, who will be on-site to teach and for a bluegrass jam with local musicians and schedule also available online Bushels and Barrels Local Food, See listing description under June 10. dance alongside participants with music maybe a little flatfooting. Wine and Beer Festival provided by traditional music students of the mtnsofmusic.com The Way We Worked Floyd Music School. 7PM - 10PM • $15 FOR FRIDAY NIGHT • $15 Quilt Exhibit Mac Arthur Inn SATURDAY IN ADVANCE • $40 FOR BOTH 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS DAYS AND A VIP PASS (OTHER GOODIES 9AM – 5PM • FREE 117 MacArthur Lane, Narrows, VA 24124 See listing description under June 10. INCLUDED!) • $10 DESIGNATED DRIVER Chantilly Farm Barn See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] Southwest Virginia Antique Power 2697 Franklin Pike, Floyd, VA 24091 540-726-7510 Two day festival celebrating local foods and Radford Fiddle and Banjo Jam Contact: [email protected] Festival, Inc. agricultural renaissance of Patrick County 540-353-5898 Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries including local wines, beers, foods, artists, 7PM • FREE Kristin Myers Live 8AM – 5PM • ADULTS $6 • CHILDREN artisans and music. Friday night concert Bluegrass, old time and country songs are 10AM – 5PM • FREE UNDER 12 FREE 7PM- 10PM • FREE with Ombrew and headline Big Daddy Love. performed with enthusiasm, skill and wild See listing description under June 10. Southwest Virginia Antique Farm Days takes Tuesday Old time Jam Folk guitarist, Kristin Myers, will perform in Saturday music line-up includes Rinaldi Flying and wooly abandon, usually to a lively, place over three days and features a variety 7PM – 9PM • FREE a solo concert on the Dogtown Roadhouse circus, Yarn and Slick Jr. and the Reactors. appreciative crowd. Come to listen or bring of working demonstrations, entertainment, a Weekly old time open music jam. Everyone Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods stage, a Crooked Road affiliated venue. your own instrument and join in the fun at tractor pull, horse pull, chainsaw competition, is welcome to come join in, or you can just this Crooked Road Affiliated Site. quilting demo, plus Bluegrass music. Our sit back and have a fun evening enjoying the Open Hous Reynolds Homestead objective is to educate the public about the great music. 10AM – 5PM • FREE 463 Homestead Lane, Critz, VA 24082 Dogtown Roadhouse importance of early farm machinery and its See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] 302 South Locust Street role in shaping life in Franklin County and the Radford Fiddle and Banjo Jam at River City Floyd, VA 24091 Grill larger area. Campo Verde Mexican Grill Contact: 540-745-6836, [email protected] 103 Third Ave., Radford, VA 24141 Willis Gap Community Center 165 Kinter Way, Pearisburg, VA 24134 The Way We Worked Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS Open Jam 540-629-2130 See listing description under June 10. Franklin City Recreation Park 540-921-0166 2150 Sontag Rd., Rocky Mount, VA 24151 7PM – 10PM • FREE Contact: 540-230-2606 See listing description under June 10. Afternoon Arts 4PM – 5PM • $3 Quilt Exhibit See listing description under June 10. 9AM – 5PM • FREE Stuart Farmers’ Market with See listing description under June 10. Music at the Market – Outdoor music by the F.A.R.M. T.E.A.M. Quilt Exhibit Music Concert 8AM – 12PM • FREE Guitar and Fiddle Making at Windy 9AM – 5PM • FREE Community farmers’ market featuring local Southwest Virginia Antique Power See listing description under June 10. 4PM – 8PM • FREE produce, baked items, teas, coffee, meats, Hill GuitarWorks Local Farmer’s market with wine garden and eggs and craft items. Come enjoy the small an outdoor concert featuring Sugar Run. This 10AM – 4PM • OTHER TIMES AVAILABLE BY Festival, Inc. town experience while the F.A.R.M. T.E.A.M. Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries event opens the Pearisburg Festival in the APPOINTMENT • FREE 8AM – 5PM • ADULTS $6 • CHILDREN (Free Alliance of Recalcitrant Musicians See listing description under June 10. UNDER 12 FREE 10AM – 5PM • FREE Park. Totally Eclectic About Music) plays their See listing description under June 17. See listing description under June 10. blend of bluegrass and mountain music. Quilt Exhibit Team members all live in Patrick County, VA Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries Pearisburg Community Center and include Mary Jo & Charlie Leet and Gayle 10AM – 5PM • FREE Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods 9AM – 5PM • FREE 1410 Wenonah Avenue Pearisburg Festival in the Park & Rory McTighe. See listing description under June 10. See listing description under June 10. Pearisburg, VA 24134 9AM – 11PM • FREE Open House See listing description under June 17. Contact: [email protected] 10AM – 5PM • FREE 540-921-0340 Stuart Farmers’ Market Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods See listing description under June 10. Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries 10AM – 5PM • FREE 320 Chestnut Avenue Open House See listing description under June 10. Chamber Block Party Stuart, VA 24171 The Way We Worked Contact: [email protected], 276-694-3811 10AM – 5PM • FREE 5:30 PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods Block party featuring a performance stage See listing description under June 10. with local musicians playing traditional Open House mountain music, entertainment for the kids The Way We Worked 10AM – 5PM • FREE as well as food. 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS See listing description under June 10. See listing description under June 10. east Patrick County Chamber of Commerce west central The Way We Worked 103B Stonewall Court, Stuart, VA 24171 “By Ear & By Heart” Exhibit 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS Contact: [email protected] 2PM - 5PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. 276-694-6012 See listing description under June 10.

59 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 60 EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE EAST ZONE

Beginning Blacksmithing The Way We Worked Southern Appalachian Dance 11AM – 5PM • DONATIONS Workshop See listing description under June 10. Workshop 9AM – 5PM • $110 6PM • FREE This beginning blacksmithing class will Workshop with Phil Jamison, a nationally- introduce students to the equipment, tools Bushels and Barrels Local Food, known dance caller, old time musician, and safety precautions involved in the use and flatfoot dancer. He has called dances, of the blacksmith’s forge. Once familiar with Wine and Beer Festival performed, and taught at music festivals the tools of the trade, the class will practice 11AM - 5PM • $15 FOR FRIDAY NIGHT • $15 and dance events throughout the U.S. and fundamental blacksmithing techniques while SATURDAY IN ADVANCE • $40 FOR BOTH overseas since the early 1970s. Join us and learning to make basic hooks, tools and DAYS AND A VIP PASS (OTHER GOODIES learn how to dance with one of the world’s decorative flares. INCLUDED!) • $10 DESIGNATED DRIVER best Southern Appalachian dancers. See listing description under June 17.

The Jacksonville Center for the Arts Floyd Country Store 220 Parkway Lane South, Suite 1A Giles Mountain Vineyard and 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 Floyd, VA 24091 Winery Tastings and Tours Contact: [email protected] Contact: (540) 745-2784 540-745-4563 [email protected] 11AM – 5PM • FREE See listing description under June 11. Floyd Country Store Square Dance Quilt Exhibit www.classiccountry98.com Tracing Our Roots: A Tour of with Phil Jamison 9AM – 5PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. Laurel Branch Road 7PM • ADMISSION FEE - $5 A good old fashioned Square Dance with Phil 1PM – 4PM • $20 Jamison and friends. A Southern Appalachian Bluegrass and Old-time “By Ear & By Heart” Exhibit See listing description under June 11. Dance Workshop with Jamison will be held music nightly 6pm-Midnight 10AM - 1PM • FREE prior to the square dance. See listing description under June 10. Bull & Barrel Rodeo & Festival GATES OPEN AT 5 PM – RODEO AT 7 PM Floyd Country Store ADULTS: $10 • AGES 6 – 13: $5 • 5 & UNDER Guitar and Fiddle Making at Windy 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 FREE Contact: [email protected] Festival featuring excitement of Bull Riding Hill GuitarWorks 540-745-4563 10AM – 4PM • OTHER TIMES AVAILABLE BY and Barrel Racing as well as live music and hands on demonstrations. APPOINTMENT • FREE Live Bluegrass Music, Local Band - See listing description under June 10. Stuart Rotary Field The Marshall Brothers & High Road Virginia Covered Bridge Festival 420 Woodland Drive, Stuart, VA 24141 7PM – 9PM • FREE 10AM – 4PM • FREE Contact: [email protected] Live music performances by local bands that Annual festival celebrating local covered (276) 692-7322 perform music local to the region including bridges and heritage featuring traditional Bluegrass, Oldtime Bluegrass and Bluegrass and eclectic music, bridge tours, horse and Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Gospel. Come listen to The Marshall Brothers wagon rides, arts, crafts, food vendors, & High Road and do some flat-footing on the children’s activities. Roots and Branches of Southern dance floor! Appalachian Dance Jacks Creek Covered Bridge and the former 5PM • FREE Wildwood Farms General Store site of Bob White Bridge Book signing and presentation with Phil 2380 Floyd Hwy S., Floyd, VA 24091 Jacks Creek Road & Bob White Rd. Jamison featuring his book Hoedowns, Reels, Contact: [email protected] Stuart, VA 24171 and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern 540-745-5155 Appalachia Dance. Meet Phil Jamison and Woodworking: Phoenix Hardwoods stay for a dance workshop and square dance. Note: The following two events start during the Mountains of Music Open House Homecoming, but finish after the Floyd Country Store 10AM – 5PM • FREE 206 S. Locust Street, Floyd, VA 24091 Homecoming ends on June 18. See listing description under June 10. Contact: [email protected] 540-745-4563 Virginia’s Forgotten Canneries 10AM – 5PM • FREE See listing description under June 10. COMMUNITY MEAL Juneteenth Gospel Event VISUAL OR PERFORMING ARTS 11AM – 4PM • FREE AGRITOURISM Southwest Virginia Antique Power Juneteenth Celebration of Emancipation of Booker T. Washington with a free outdoor PARTICIPATORY EVENT Festival, Inc. gospel concert, living history re-enactments 8AM – 5PM • ADULTS - $6 • CHILDREN of the moment of freedom, and children’s LEARNING OPPORTUNITY UNDER 12 - FREE activities. See listing description under June 17. OUTDOOR EVENT

Booker T. Washington National Monument Beginning Blacksmithing 12130 BTW Highway, Hardy, VA 24101 CULTURAL FOOD EVENT Contact: [email protected] Workshop (540) 721-2094 COMMUNITY MEAL 9AM – 5PM • $110 See listing description under June 18.

61 • mtnsofmusic.com HERITAGE AND HISTORY

by Ted Olson

Visitors to the Crooked Road and the Mountains of Music Homecoming will hear both old time and bluegrass music, though the difference between the two is sometimes unclear. Old time music in the Crooked Road area includes such genres of music as folk songs and ballads; fiddle and banjo tunes; traditional and early commercial sacred songs; blues; and popular songs by known songwriters recorded before World War II and disseminated via 78 rpm records and the radio and eventually entering oral tradition. Old time music was created from the blending of music from several cultures: traditional ballads, lyric songs, and sacred songs from English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish sources; blues, blues ballads, spirituals, and banjo tunes from African American tradition; the fiddle and mandolin of Italian origin; the guitar of Spanish origin; and the autoharp and harmonica and fretted dulcimer of German origin.

Evolving out of old time music, bluegrass is a more modern style of music in terms of structure, delivery, and repertoire. The classic bluegrass sound emerged with the 1945 introduction of ’s three-finger banjo picking to mandolinist Bill Monroe’s innovative band the Blue Grass Boys. Monroe’s western Kentucky cultural heritage was heavily influenced by the Appalachian region, and his musical impact was felt throughout Appalachia. By the late 1940s, Monroe’s group was inspiring other country string bands, including such groups from the Crooked Road area as the Stanley Brothers and Jim & Jesse. Bluegrass is an ensemble music that emphasizes instrumental virtuosity and emotive vocals.

The typical bluegrass band features such acoustic instruments as the mandolin, fiddle, five-string banjo, acoustic guitar, upright acoustic bass, and dobro (resonator guitar), with the instruments alternating lead parts while the bass and the remaining instruments provide a rhythmic background. Bluegrass harmony singing was derived from the harmony duo and gospel traditions of Appalachia, and the tonal character influenced by the modal vocalizations in traditional Appalachian balladry. The standard bluegrass repertoire includes fiddle and banjo tunes; folk and folk-like commercial songs; and gospel music. A typical bluegrass song consists of several verses sung by the lead singer, each of which is followed by a chorus in two-, three-, or four-part harmony. The verse-chorus pairings are interspersed with instrumental interludes, each one showcasing one or more of the lead instruments.

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

63 • mtnsofmusic.com June 10-18, 2016 • 66