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Held at Grayson Highlands State Park in Mouth of Wilson, VA.

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Bands for 2013 feature Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal


Performers announced for 2013 Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival

 A big day of music is coming up as Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal headline the 19th annual Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition. The family-friendly event is scheduled for Saturday, June 15, at Grayson Highlands State Park near Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.

 Also appearing will be the Quebe Sisters Band, the Crooked Road Ramblers, the Harris Brothers, Cabin Fever NW, and Wayne Henderson and Friends. Twenty guitar competition contestants will have the chance to win a handmade Henderson guitar, and scholarships will be presented to young musicians studying Appalachian music and the groups that support them. The festival has presented more than $79,000 in scholarships since 1995.

Cash has been recording since the 1980s, in country, rock, roots and pop, and Leventhal is a Grammy-winning musician, producer, songwriter and recording engineer. The Quebe Sisters Band returns to the festival with their three-part harmony and blend of western swing, vintage country, bluegrass, jazz and swing, and Texas-style fiddling. The Crooked Road Ramblers is an old-time dance band from Grayson County, Va., and Ashe County, N.C. The Harris Brothers, from Lenoir, N.C., are influenced by the blues and traditional Appalachian mountain music. From the Pacific Northwest comes Cabin Fever NW, Dianne Wood Bochsler and Tara Lynn Caldwell, singer-songwriters who blend folk, bluegrass, pop, alt-country, blues and more. Performances run from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Bring a chair or blanket and a picnic if you wish. Meals, ice cream and a variety of concessions will be available. A children’s area will feature lariat artist Doug Smith and his rope tricks, along with music, crafts and games. Admission is $15, and children 12 and younger get in free. A portion of proceeds will benefit scholarships for young musicians. Parking costs $3. The festival is open, rain or shine.

 

Find full event details and directions at www.waynehenderson.org. Park information is at www.dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/gra.shtml.

 

2011 Festival Scholarship Winners 

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The 2010 festival!

 

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.

 

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