Roots of American Music (how hillbillies helped invent it) is a musical tour with a cast of 12 well known musicians that will visit 12 Crooked Road towns during May 10-22. Ticket price $10
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The Crooked Road Musical Tour:
“The Roots of American Music� ( how hillbillies helped invent it)
LIVE at The Historic Star Theater -- 318 Patrick Avenue, Stuart, VA - 276-694-7064
SUNDAY, May 15 at 3:00 PM
Tickets: $10
Roots of American Music (how hillbillies helped invent it) is a musical tour with a cast of 12 well known musicians that will visit 12 Crooked Road towns during May 10-22.
Performances will be held: May 10, Pulaski Theater, Pulaski; May 11, Rex Theater, Galax; May 12, Natural Tunnel State Park Amphitheater, Duffield: May 13, Paramount Center for the Arts, Bristol; May 14, Jettie Baker Center, Clintwood; May 15, Historic Star Theatre, Stuart; May 17, Roanoke Main Library; May 18, Southwest Virginia Community College—King Community Center, Claypool Hill; May 19, Lincoln Theatre, Marion; May 20, Mountain Empire Community College—Goodloe Center, Big Stone Gap; May 21, Floyd Country Store, Floyd; May 22, Franklin County High School Auditorium, Rocky Mount.
The show tells that Southwestern Virginia was a mixing bowl where an American music was created from ingredients brought there from many places after 1720, but primarily from Ulster in Ireland, the Rhine Valley of Germany, and was mixed with English and African sounds brought to the mountains by settlers who came westward from the Tidewater.
