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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

After Jack performs at Rooster Walk 6


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Give yourself a gift: Go hear After Jack perform at the Rives Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 20

After Jack, a Franklin County-based “hot folk” trio, is scheduled to perform at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20, at the Rives Theatre in uptown Martinsville, Va., as part of The Bluegrass at the Rives Concert Series. Continue reading