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Across the Blue Ridge "Old Sounds, New Trails" Concert Tour @ The Southeastern Center for Contemporay Arts (SECCA) n Winston-Salem, NC
The Blue Ridge Music Center and 88.5 FM WFDD Public Radio for the Piedmont have teamed up with Across The Blue Ridge Radio Show host Paul Brown for a series of roots and traditional music concerts in cities around the NC Piedmont.
The Across the Blue Ridge "Old Sounds, New Tours" Concert Tour is funded in part by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
The shows will be hosted and emceed by Paul Brown & His Piedmont Pals (Terri McMurray & Craig Smith) and feature special musical guests. The Piedmont Pals and the guests bands - some of the most highly respected and critically acclaimed performers carrying on Blue Ridge Mountain Musical traditions - will present a show that highlights the musical heritage of the Blue Ridge Mountains while at the same time looking forward to how these musical traditions and musical styles are being adapted and carried on by a younger generation of mountain musicians. A variety of mountain music styles will be presented and interpreted, specifically Old-Time, Bluegrass, Country Blues, Americana, and Folk.
Concerts will be presented in Mount Airy, NC (Andy Griffith Playhouse), West Jefferson, NC (Ashe County Civic Center), and Winston-Salem, NC (SECCA - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts).
Performers include: host & emcee Paul Brown & His Piedmont Pals (Terri McMurray & Craig Smith) with special musical guests Wayne Henderson & Helen White + The Buckstankle Boys.
Wayne Henderson is a National Heritage Award recipient honored for his craftsmanship as a luthier and his renowned finger-style Appalachian guitar playing. His instruments are coveted worldwide and he sports a long waiting list for his guitars, mandolins, and banjos. Sponsored through the National Council for Traditional Arts, the Smithsonian Institute, Office of Arts America, European World of Bluegrass, Chet Atkins International Appreciation Society and numerous individual venues, Wayne has toured broadly in the U.S., Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. His lightening fast, articulate playing style was influenced by Doc Watson and EC Ball, both close friends and neighbors in this musically rich corner where Southwest Virginia meets Northwest North Carolina. His repertoire includes Appalachian fiddle tunes, Carter Family melodies and a few swing and rockabilly standards. He has won more awards at the Galax Fiddlers Convention than any other competitor in its seventy-seven year history.
A singer, fiddler, guitarist and tunesmith, Helen White has toured extensively with Wayne in the U.S. and Europe. Her compositions include works for theater and video projects as well as a Booklist honored recording of original songs for children. Helen is the founder and served as regional director of the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program from program inception in February of 2000 to June of 2013. This renowned program serves students in 30 mountain counties in Virginia, North and South Carolina introducing them to their musical heritage through small group instruction in the instruments and music common to the region.
The Buckstankle Boys are a group of young men born and raised in the Blueridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. Each one of them, having being brought up and schooled in the ways of traditional mountain music, decided to form a group to promote the older sounds of bluegrass and oldtime music.
Paul Brown is well known in the region as a performer, collector, and interpreter of traditional music with special expertise in the Round Peak and southwest Virginia traditions of fiddle, banjo and song. Paul Brown is also a popular teacher of traditional music at camps and festivals, featuring the music's historical and cultural context. He is also known to a national audience as a newscaster, reporter and producer for NPR in Washington. He left NPR after 14 years there in 2013, and continues to produce news and arts-related stories for the radio network on a freelance basis from his Winston-Salem, NC headquarters. He is the creator of Across the Blue Ridge, which aired on NPR member station WFDD in the 1980s and 1990s and which received support then from the NC Arts Council for fieldwork and live presentation of traditional musicians.
Craig Smith is frequently called "the banjo player's banjo player". He's a California native with a stunningly deep understanding of the Bluegrass greats such as Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley and J.D. Crowe, and an equally impressive creativity all his own. A Grammy Award winner, Craig has played with Charlie Moore, Jim Eanes, Summer Wages, Boot Hill and Laurie Lewis. But he prefers to stay home in Winston-Salem, giving banjo lessons, playing music with friends, and performing each year at the Dixie Classic Fair in Winston-Salem.
Terri McMurray started playing ukulele in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin when she was about eight years old. Later, she took up guitar and old time banjo. Terri moved to North Carolina in 1982 to be near some of the great old time fiddle and banjo players and spent a lot of time learning banjo from Tommy Jarrell and Dix Freeman. She has played with many other great traditional players, such as Earnest East, Benton Flippen, Paul Sutphin, Fields Ward, Luther Davis, Verlen Clifton, and Kyle Creed. Terri was a founding member of the original Old Hollow String Band, along with Riley Baugus and Kirk Sutphin and has also been a member of the Toast String Stretchers and the Mostly Mountain Boys.
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LocationSECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art) (View)
750 Marguerite Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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