June 8, 7 PM at The Blue Ridge Music Center: The Mountain Duets concert. Carter Family songs, gospel hymns, and brother duets will fill the air Saturday at the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The South Carolina Broadcasters (SCB) are a little mission band that performs heart stompin' love songs and rowdy gospel numbers with three voices, fiddle, banjo, and guitar. Sarah Osborne grew up singing the gospel songs of her great grandmother in rural Alamance county, North Carolina, Ivy Sheppard played with the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers before joining the SCB, and David Sheppard, a renowned luthier, provides powerful back up guitar and writes fine songs for the group. When the South Carolina Broadcasters sing and play you want to shout, "Hallelujah!"
Mac and Jenny Traynham are a husband and wife duo who specialize in the early country duet style of singing and playing old-time country and mountain music. There voices blend in a way that is only possible after singing together for decades. Mac and Jenny draw their repertoire from the Carter Family, Delmore Brothers, Blue Sky Boys and the old-time fiddle and banjo styles of their home area, Floyd County, in the southern Blue Ridge area of Virginia.
Eddie and Bonnie Bond grew up in the small cotton mill town of Fries, Virginia. Fries was the home or workplace of many early country music recording artists including: Henry Whitter, G.B. Grayson and Pop Stoneman. Both Bonnie and Eddie grew up in musical families and learned many of the old songs and ballads from family members and neighbors. Together they enjoy harmonizing on Carter family songs, old hymns, and mountain ballads. Eddie and Bonnie will be joined by award-winning, autoharp player and luthier, John Hollandsworth, and his wife Kathie Hollandsworth on bass.
Tickets for the Mountain Duets concert are $10. Children 12 and under are free. All ticket sales support our daily free programs and non-profit traditional music concert series. Advance tickets are available at the Blue Ridge Music Center, Barrs Fiddle Shop, the Galax Visitor Center, online at www.BlueRidgeMusicCenter.org, by calling (276) 236-5309 x112 or at the gate.
Concerts are made possible with the support of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and National Park Service. The Blue Ridge Music Center is located at milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway only 10 miles from Galax, Virginia and 20 miles from Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Music Center hours: 10 AM-5 PM everyday. Bring a picnic, folding chairs, your friends and the whole family. No alcohol or pets allowed. Smokehouse BBQ available on concert nights. The Blue Ridge Music Center has mainstage concerts every weekend through August in the outdoor amphitheater at the foot of beautiful Fisher Peak. Also enjoy free Mid Day Mountain Music 12-4 PM daily and the free Roots of American Music museum.
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