9/6-7: Pawpaw Festival at JBR Vineyards
Celebrate America’s Forgotten native tropical fruit, rediscovered at JBR Vineyards’ 6th annual Pawpaw Festival! Enjoy a weekend filled with live music, great wine, a walk through the pawpaw patch, vineyard tours, and learning about pawpaws. Dogs and kids welcome.
FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, September 6: Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers
The Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers is an Old Time band that has been playing in the area for more than 15 years. The majority of their repertoire is tunes that have been shared in this section of the Blue Ridge for more than a century. In the Goodson community (where the Music Center is located) friends and neighbors would get together to ‘make music’ at someone’s home or at one of the country stores. Listeners can close their eyes and have the same aural experience that their ancestors would have had visiting here.
Stu Shenk leads the band. He first played the banjo in 1971 and began fiddle the next year, learning his first tunes from Blanton Owen of the Fuzzy Mountain String Band, Oscar Wright of Lerona, W.Va., and neighbors in Summers County, W.Va. He moved to Carroll County, Va., in 1978, and has been an active musician in the area’s old-time community ever since. He lives in the shadow of Fisher Peak, within 2 miles of the Music Center.
Band members include Stu Shenk, Dan and Dot Shikenjanski of Mount Airy, North Carolina, and Ed Dalton of Fancy Gap, Virginia.
Enjoy true Mountain Music at JBR Vineyard’s Sixth Annual Paw Paw festival!
Sunday, September 7: Bobby Parker
Bobby Parker is a folk, soul, pop and blues singer and 6- and 12-string guitarist with a broad spectrum of influences ranging from Leadbelly to Bob Dylan to Cat Stevens to Jason Isbell and Ben Harper, the Dead/Feat/Band catalog, both Elvises (Presley and Costello), Hank Williams (Sr.!), the Drive-By Truckers and Talking Heads.
He’s traveled widely and studied at the feet of many musical masters, at clubs and concerts, on sunny back porch afternoons, moonlit riverbanks, late nights in dorm rooms and living rooms and anywhere a coffee cup or a campfire can be found.
These days he lives in Blacksburg and is a regular on the regional scene, having performed at FloydFest, countless New River Valley festivals, venues and beyond, as a solo performer, and with roots rock electric combo Attic Static and funky folk acoustic unit Hot Diggity Dog.
Listen to an original at Hobo Moon by Bobby Parker of Vinyl Tap (soundcloud.com) or visit https://www.facebook.com/bobby.parker.1656/posts/928344913911958
