HoustonFest is an annual bluegrass and old-time music festival, celebrating song and service, which is held at Felts Park, 601 South Main St., in Galax, Virginia, on the second weekend in June. HoustonFest 2016 is set for Friday, June 10, through Saturday, June 11.
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Will Overman Band brings back Southern Fried Rock with self-titled debut album release
Southern fried rock. For me, KTel defined it in a 1980 album with songs from The Marshall Tucker Band and Blackfoot, among many others.
I still have the vinyl, which I nearly wore out.
Will Overman and his band, with the exception of uber-talented drummer Chris Helms — think Sebastian Bach in the Gilmore Girls’ Hep Alien band — weren’t born until a few decades after my KTel find.
The debut album by Will Overman Band, released June 4, is the epitome of that Southern fried rock. The kind of music I played incessantly on the first stereo turntable I bought with my first paycheck — hard-earned during the long, hot summer of ’79 picking berries on an experimental farm in Washington state.
2016 Charlie Poole Music Festival set for June 10-11
The 2016 Charlie Poole Music Festival will be held June 10-11 at Governor Morehead Park, 422 Church St., in Eden, North Carolina. Governor Morehead Park is located on the site of the first textile mill in the region, built in 1839 by John Motley Morehead. The park is owned and operated by the Eden Preservation Society.
See the full schedule below. Weekend passes are $25. Learn more here.
Town Mountain to headline first Bailey Blues and Bluegrass Festival on Friday, June 3, in downtown Winston-Salem
The first Bailey Blues and Bluegrass Festival, a music event that’s blue down to its roots, is set from 6-10 p.m. Friday, June 3, at Bailey Park in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The free event is sponsored by Wake Forest Innovation Quarter and the Blue Ridge Music Center and is open to the public.
Make music a part of your Memorial Day Weekend 2016
There are numerous live music festivals and venues throughout North Carolina, Virginia and beyond on tap to help you celebrate the official kick off of summer over the upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend. Following are a few highlights. If I’ve missed one, let me know! Continue reading
The Honeycutters poised to catch on with fourth studio album release
The Honeycutters may just be the best rock, country roots band out there that you aren’t listening to. That should change with this weekend’s release of the group’s fourth studio album, “On the Ropes,” on Organic Records.
MerleFest fans may remember frontwoman and principal songwriter Amanda Anne Platt from her stint as a finalist in the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest in 2011.
The native of the New York village Hastings on the Hudson moved to Asheville, North Carolina, in January 2007 with the intention of literally making music – in the form of becoming a guitar builder – rather than writing and performing songs. Instead, she found a community of like-minded musicians and the music, well, it just stuck. Like, uhm, honey.
And we’re all better for it. But don’t take my word for it. Listen for yourself.
Find out if the band is coming to a town near you here.
On Huffington Post: Eight reasons not to miss Rooster Walk Music and Arts Festival over Memorial Day Weekend
Rooster Walk 8 Music and Arts Festival set for May 26-29 near Martinsville, Virginia, is a week away and just in case you haven’t purchased a pass, I’m giving you eight reasons you don’t want to miss it. This also appeared on The Huffington Post entertainment blog here. Continue reading
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Red Wing Roots Music Festival offers fiddle workshop June 27-30
From the good folks at Red Wing Roots Music Festival in conjunction with the Shenandoah Valley Strings Camp at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia:”Calling all violin students! Join us this June for the Red Wing Fiddle Workshop! The workshop will take place June 27-30, from 1-3 p.m. each day. It is open to non-beginner violin students ages 5-19. Students will learn with Eastern Mennonite University’s Preparatory Music teachers and special guest Eric Brubaker, The Steel Wheels’ fiddle player.In addition to an end-of-camp performance, students will perform onstage with The Steel Wheels at the Red Wing Roots Music Festival Friday, July 8! Admission to Red Wing IV and a T-shirt are included for participating students. Parents are offered discounted festival admission. Learn more and register here or email fiddle@redwingroots.com or call 540-432-4277.
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Rooster Walk, Red Wing, FloydFest make Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine’s best Southern festivals list
Rooster Walk Music and Arts Festival, Red Wing Roots Music Festival and FloydFest are three of my favorites. It seems Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine agrees naming two of the Virginia festivals as well as Black Mountain, North Carolina’s LEAF among 2016’s top family-friendly festivals to attend in the South. And FloydFest was named among the most adventurous. What are your favorites? Continue reading
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