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"Always the third Saturday in
June,
Rain or Shine!"
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Prior Year Performing Bands
2011,
2010,
2009, 2008,
2007, 2006, 2005,
2004 , 2003
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2002 , 2001 ,
2000, 1999
, 1998 , 1997
, 1996 , 1995
This festival presents a variety of performers and bands of
traditional music.
The 2011 festival features the following
entertainment:
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The Boxcars
The bluegrass supergroup features IBMA-winning mandolinist
Adam Steffey, along with Ron Stewart, John R. Bowman, Keith
Garrett and Harold Nixon.
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The Harri
s Brothers
The Harris Brothers, from Lenoir, N.C., draw from a vast
repertoire of American traditional music blues mixed with
traditional Appalachian music, jazz, country, bluegrass and rock
’n’ roll. It’s stripped down, intense and real.
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George Hamilton IV
The 1956 song “A Rose and a Baby Ruth” is the one that
kicked off a long and successful career for the man known as the
International Ambassador of Country Music. He has been a member
of the Grand Ole Opry since 1960.
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Bobby Ingano
Bobby is one of Hawaii's finest steel guitarists, and
makes a return visit to the festival.
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Eddie Pennington
Eddie Pennington is widely recognized as one of the
greatest living thumbstyle guitarists, keeping alive the sound
popularized by Kentucky native Merle Travis in the 1940s.
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The April Verch Band
The fiddler and stepdancer from Ontario steps
out with her winsome voice, with Clay Ross on guitar and Cody
Walters on upright-electric bass and banjo.
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Wayne Henderson and Friends
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