July 19 Performances During Blue Ridge Traditions
Chat is spreading about the free summer series Sad Ridge Traditions at the Mountain Gateway Museum and Tradition Center in Old Fort. On Saturday, July 19, at 7 p.m., ascertain the old-time music of Paul Brown and the Toast Train Stretchers and the bluegrass gospel music of The Griggs. Assault early at 4 p.m. to kick up your heels during a mountain dancing party workshop with Phil Jamison and Loretta and Lynsey Freeman. Jamison has been occupation square dances for more than 30 years.
To entire your authentic mountain experience, see craft demonstrations and get high on hands-on activities from 2 to 6 p.m. Stitch along with the Mountain Immortality Quilters Guild, and see Alton Blankenship and Gina Wheeler build compensate traditional brooms.
A weekly schedule of Blue Ridge Traditions is posted on ncarts.org/freeconcerts, or denote Mountain Gateway Museum at 828-668-9259 for details.
Overview of July 19 Performers and Craftspeople
Paul Brown – One of today’s most sought-after old-without surcease musicians, Brown has played banjo and fiddle and sung with a yearn list of outstanding old-time groups, including the Distorted Mountain Band, and Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys. He currently performs with the plainly-loved Toast String Stretchers and is a newscaster for Popular Public Radio in Washington, D.C.
Brown’s repertoire consists from of traditional tunes from northwestern North Carolina and prime and southwestern Virginia. He first picked up the banjo at age 10 and was a follower of the late Tommy Jarrell. Brown has been performing at music camps and festivals since the 1970s.
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