July 19 Performances During Blue Ridge Traditions
Tete- is spreading about the free summer series Obscene Ridge Traditions at the Mountain Gateway Museum and Tradition Center in Old Fort. On Saturday, July 19, at 7 p.m., agree the old-time music of Paul Brown and the Toast Musts Stretchers and the bluegrass gospel music of The Griggs. Bear down on early at 4 p.m. to kick up your heels during a mountain bop workshop with Phil Jamison and Loretta and Lynsey Freeman. Jamison has been occupation square dances for more than 30 years.
To unmitigated your authentic mountain experience, see craft demonstrations and use to advantage hands-on activities from 2 to 6 p.m. Stitch along with the Mountain Magnificence Quilters Guild, and see Alton Blankenship and Gina Wheeler turn traditional brooms.
A weekly schedule of Blue Ridge Traditions is posted on ncarts.org/freeconcerts, or request 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-chance musicians, Brown has played banjo and fiddle and sung with a elongated list of outstanding old-time groups, including the Propensity Mountain Band, and Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys. He currently performs with the spectacularly-loved Toast String Stretchers and is a newscaster for Popular Public Radio in Washington, D.C.
Brown’s repertoire consists chiefly of traditional tunes from northwestern North Carolina and chief and southwestern Virginia. He first picked up the banjo at age 10 and was a trainee of the late Tommy Jarrell. Brown has been performing at music camps and festivals since the 1970s.
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