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Kids and Family Fun Day (Blue Ridge Music Center - Milepost 213)
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 36.573197, -80.850001
Blue Ridge Music Center at Milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway Music Center Rd, Galax, VA 24333
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This free event is open to all ages and includes performances, booths, an instrument “petting zoo,” scavenger hunt, art activities, guided hike, and a family square dance.
Youth bands will perform throughout the day. The schedule includes The Brothers Young, a bluegrass duo from the mountains of Southwest Virginia made up of brothers Ayden Young and Blane Young; Ettore Buzzini, a 16-year-old bluegrass banjo and guitar prodigy from Mooresville, N.C.; and Newfound Gap, an old-time band from Western North Carolina made up of siblings Bayla Davis, Sylvie Davis, and Judah Davis.
The day will wrap up with a free concert by Grammy winners Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer from 3 to 4 p.m. in the indoor theater. Fink and Marxer are master musicians with a career spanning more than 35 years. Their superb harmonies are backed by instrumental virtuosity on the guitar, five-string banjo, ukulele, mandolin, cello-banjo, and many other instruments. The duo has performed at hundreds of bluegrass and folk festivals and taught at music camps worldwide. Happily known as “social music conductors” they are always ready to start a jam or sing along, and help others learn to play and sing. Their former students include Kaki King and Rhiannon Giddens.
Performance schedule:
11:30 a.m. – The Brothers Young
12:30 p.m. – Ettore Buzzini
1:30 p.m. – Newfound Gap
3 to 4 p.m. – Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
This event is sponsored by our partners at the Blue Ridge Parkway Foudnation
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