Bluegrass Gospel at the Blue Ridge Music Center

On Saturday August 20th there will be a FREE concert at the Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax featuring three top-flight bands: Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Rich In Tradition, and Sonrise performing traditional and original bluegrass-gospel and mountain gospel music.

Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice

Junior Sisk and Rambler's Choice are known for their hard driving, soulful, bluegrass sound that showcases Junior's strong vocals and songs steeped in the hills of Virginia. From the first sung notes, you'll see why Junior Sisk has been nominated so many times for songwriter and male vocalist-of-the-year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice are currently working on their new CD, "The Heart of a Song" and have several other acclaimed recordings.

Hear Junior Sisk and Rambler's Choice here.
 

Rich in Tradition

Drawing from the deep well of Galax and Mt. Airy, Rich In Tradition started out in a blaze winning many fiddlers conventions right from the start, including the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention. Their hot instrumentals and vocals are sure to fire up the start of this concert. And if two great bands wasn't enough, Sonrise is on the concert bill as well. For over twenty years now, Fredericksburg Virginia's, Sonrise has been gaining recognition and popularity for their strong harmony gospel singing - with bluegrass band instrumentation as well as a cappella (unaccompanied) songs. Some of the best new, original gospel songs today are being written and sung by this band.

Listen to Rich in Tradition here.

Hear Sonrise here.

The Bluegrass Gospel Concert  starts at 7pm. Seating opens at 5:30pm. Admission is free!! Bring a lawn chair, a picnic and your friends. Concessions available. This free concert was made possible with your support through the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation - Your stewardship in action!

* Free concerts are made possible with your support through the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation.

The Blue Ridge Music Center is located at milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Save on advance tickets! Info and tickets are available online at www.blueridgemusiccenter.org or by calling (276) 236-5309. Bring the whole family. Picnic food is permitted. No pets or alcohol in the amphitheater. The Music Center has evening concerts every weekend all summer through mid-September at the foot of beautiful Fisher Peak (only 10 miles from Galax). Concessions are available on concert nights. Lawnchairs and blankets recommended. The Blue Ridge Music Center is open 9-5 seven days a week through October 30. Come see the new Roots of American Music exhibition and sit awhile in our covered breezeway and listen to Mid-Day Mountain Music from 12-4pm daily. There is no fee for Visitor Center activities