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If you love roots and traditional music, youll find some of the best Blue Ridge Mountain Music there is every Friday night in Galax, VA - on the Crooked Road: Virginias Musical Heritage Trail - Rt. 58. Last night I enjoyed listening to the terrific old time music dance band The Slate Mountain Ramblers featuring fiddler Richard Bowman, wife Barbara on bass, and daughter Marsha Todd on banjo at The Rex Theatres Blue Ridge Backroads show (every Friday night - broadcast live on WBRF 98.1 FM). A big crowd was at the Rex and the Ramblers had most of them up and dancing (flat foot and waltz) for most every song. Prior to heading over to the Rex, I visited the Front Porch Gallery of artist Willard Gayheart. Gayheart is a well known guitar picker and fine artist (the Washington Post called him the Norman Rockwell of the Appalachians). Willard and his bandmates, in the old time band Skeeter and the Skidmarks, Edwin Lacey (banjo) and Scott Freeman (fiddle, mandolin) perform every Friday night at the Front Porch Gallery in Woodlawn, VA - just 5 miles north of Galax of Rt. 58) for what they call The Fiddle and Plow show. Willard and friends host local and regional musicians in a wonderfully intimate setting surrounded by his famous pencil drawings. On this Friday night the guest artist was author and musician Rita Sims Quillen, who grew up best friends with Janette Carters daughter and spent lots of time with the Carter Family at their home in Scott County, VA. Quillens new book, Hiding Ezra had been compared to Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain. Admission to both shows is only $5. rextheatergalax/ ritasimsquillen/
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 12:33:50 +0000

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