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Gibson Brothers Featured at 2012 Festival!

We are pleased to announce that the Gibson Brothers will be the featured guests at this year's festival, June 16! Eric and Leigh Gibson were the 2011 IBMA vocal group of the year, and "Help My Brother" was honored as the album of the year.

We'll be announcing more performers in the next few months.

Scholarship Application Time

Now's the time for students to apply for scholarships to be awarded at this year's festival. Deadline is February 15. Click on "Scholarship" at left for details and an application.

Nyomi Taylor of Sparta, North Carolina, submitted the winning design for the 2011 T-shirts. Here's what it looks like. Congratulations, Nyomi!

Held on the third Saturday in June‚ at Grayson Highlands State Park in Mouth of Wilson, VA., the Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition features some of the region’s best traditional musicians. From time to time, they have shared the stage with bluegrass bands from Europe.

The event takes its name from National Heritage Award recipient Wayne C. Henderson‚ a musician and instrument maker who lives in nearby Rugby‚ Virginia. Henderson's top-notch finger-picking is a source of great pleasure and pride to his friends, family, and neighbors in Grayson County, Virginia; his guitar playing has also been enjoyed at Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of "Masters of the Steel-String Guitar", and in seven nations of Europe, Asia and Africa.

Wayne and many of his musical friends are featured performers at the festival‚ with bluegrass and old-time music dominating the program. The Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition was established in 1995 to express appreciation for this "living legend". A portion of the proceeds from the Festival are placed into a scholarship fund to aid local young musicians in continuing their educations.