Fiddle Fest photos
FiddleFest is an annual bluegrass festival located quite near my home in Roanoke, VA. It’s held the last weekend of July each year on the bucolic campus of Hollins University, just north of Roanoke.
I was able to attend last Friday’s (7/25) show where I enjoyed music of Grasstowne, Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe, The Bluegrass Brothers and Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys – and was flat blown away by my first live experience of Dailey & Vincent!
Jenny Slaughter, the official FiddleFest photographer, shared a number of images she captured at the festival, which we share with our readers forthwith.
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Pepsi is entering its fourth year of sponsorship of FiddleFest, a not-for-profit bluegrass music festival held annually on the campus of Hollins University, just north of Roanoke, VA. What makes the sponsorship unique is that, in addition to cash and merchandise, Pepsi helps promote the festival by...
A new, weekly bluegrass radio show is set to launch this coming Sunday (10/5) in southwestern Virginia. FiddleFest Radio will air each Sunday afternoon on The Bull, FM 106.1 from Roanoke, VA from 5:00-7:00 p.m., simulcast live online via audio streaming.
The show will be hosted by Mike Conner, proprietor...
I happened to catch Terry Baucom on stage last weekend with the Mountain Heart & Tony Rice show at Roanoke Fiddlefest.
It was a terrific show, and this memento of the performance is a classic. It was created by Jenny Conner, a photographer and web developer based in southwestern Virginia.
She...
Geez... It seems like everyone in bluegrass but me and Brance are heading for Europe this summer.
Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe are in Holland and Norway this week with five shows scheduled.
Wednesday July 9 - Turfschip, Nieuwkoop
Thursday July 10th - Nordfjord Folkemuseum, SANDANE (Norway)
Friday...
CMT.com has a nice feature up this morning about the recently concluded Ralph Stanley Memorial Festival, the 36th annual running of the event, also known as the Hills Of Home Festival. The story largely covers the Clinch Mountain Boys reunion that took place at the festival, with former members of both...
James Alan Shelton, longtime lead guitarist for Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys, was presented with a Carter Stanley Memorial Blue Ridge Guitar at Stanley's Memorial Weekend Festival on Saturday May 23rd. The guitar was given to him on stage in appreciation for fifteen years...
In addition to plugging away on the bluegrass circuit, we understand that mandolinist, vocalist and band leader Jimmy Bowen is shopping a country project to record companies in Nashville.
Steve Brooks mentioned recently in his Music Biz and Broadcast Beat column in Country Music Report that...
Jimmy...
Each year, the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend holds a faculty concert on the Saturday night of their three day instructional event. It is the only part of the weekend which is open to the general public (not registered to attend the 3 day workshop) and is always a highlight, both for the students and the...
We had a number of posts last month about a serious auto accident on June 22 involving two members of Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys.
Ralph's grandson Nathan Stanley, who plays mandolin and sings with the band, fiddler Dewey Brown, and his wife Leslie, were returning to the Browns' home in North...
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Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!
FiddleFest was awesome!
We went up for the Friday night show!
I got to see Grasstowne live for the first time…great group of guys there all in one band!
Dailey & Vincent were absolutely outstanding!
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