Pickin' with Presley - Presley Barker with Mentors Wayne Henderson & Steve Lewis
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Organizations: Presley Barker, Steve Lewis, Wayne Henderson
Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Advance Tickets: $12.00
At the Door: $15.00

Description:
Floyd Country Store presents Pickin' with Presley featuring Presley Barker with his mentors Wayne Henderson & Steve Lewis on Saturday, October 20, 2018.

The young and talented flat-picking guitarist Presley Barker will present a concert with his mentors Wayne Henderson and Steve Lewis.

Living in the NC mountains and listening to Doc Watson on the radio inspired Presley to begin picking fiddle tunes and bluegrass music. He has been influenced and mentored by Steve Lewis, Wayne Henderson, and Bryan Sutton. He has quickly emerged as an astonishingly gifted flat-picker.

In the summer of 2015, Presley won first place in the prestigious Adult Guitar Competition at the 80th Annual Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention and in the summer of 2016, he was named West Virginia State Flatpicking Guitar Champion as a young teenager. In 2017, Presley won the Wayne Henderson Guitar Competition. He also appeared on NBC's "Little Big Shots" with Steve Harvey and "Wonderama" TV show in New York City.

Presley released his first solo album entitled “JUST-TEN” in the fall of 2015.

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/presleybarkermusic
https://www.twitter.com/PresleyBarker11
https://www.instagram.com/presleybarkermusic/

Wayne Henderson is a musical legend known worldwide for both his lightening fast "pinch picking" guitar style and the beautiful guitars, mandolins, and banjos he crafts in his shop in Rugby, Virginia. His guitar playing has also been enjoyed at Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of Masters of the Steel-String Guitar, and in seven nations in Asia.

In addition to his reputation as a guitarist, Henderson is a luthier of great renown. He is a recipient of a 1995 National Heritage Award presented by the National Endowment for the Arts. He produces about 20 instruments a year, mostly guitars; he is almost as well-known for the mandolins he has made. Good friend Doc Watson owned a Henderson mandolin. He said, “That Henderson mandolin is as good as any I’ve had my hands on. And that’s saying a lot, because I’ve picked up some good ones.”

Some of Henderson’s instruments are intricately decorated but are most respected for their volume, tone, and resonance. Blues guitarist John Cephas said that Wayne Henderson “is probably the most masterful guitar maker in this whole United States.” There is a waiting list for Henderson’s guitars made up of the famous (and not-so-famous).

Links:

http://www.waynehenderson.org/
https://www.facebook.com/Wayne-Henderson-Music-FestivalInc-204058866277453/

By day, Steve Lewis is a commercial and residential painter, by night and every weekend, a national banjo champion. He still lives in Todd, the small mountain community near Boone where he grew up. Steve lives with his wife, DeAnna, and their children, Josh, Scott, and Molly.

Just before his third birthday in 1967, Steve held his first guitar. More than forty years later, he is still picking. By the age of seven, he was listening to his father’s albums, the radio or watching musicians on the television. Influencing Steve during this time were Tony Rice and close-by neighbor in Deep Gap, Doc Watson. Not only did Steve spend his time picking the guitar, but by age ten he began playing the banjo. This self-taught picker’s heroes included J.D. Crowe, Earl Scruggs and Tony Trishka.

His father still enjoys telling the stories of “hauling” Steve around the Boone area to pick for everyone who would listen. From entertaining at the local restaurants to playing at nearby Lees-McRae College, Steve fascinated people who enjoyed seeing this wonder boy with a guitar bigger than he was, playing favorites like Foggy Mountain Breakdown. In 1976, he played for the Daniel Boone Cloggers and performed for many at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee. His first professional gig was as a member of Tommy Faile band.

Steve also played in the noteworthy band, Vintage Blend, and its successors, Ric-O-Chet and Last Run. During his tenure with Ric-O-Chet, the band had a hit, “My Last Run,” written by Willard Gayheart, that was on the national bluegrass charts for four months. Lewis has traveled throughout much of the United States performing and winning contests that have included RenoFest, Galax Old Time Fiddlers Convention, MerleFest, and Walnut Valley. He currently holds the title of Walnut Valley National Bluegrass Banjo Champion, and he placed second in their guitar competition. Despite his many honors, Lewis, a genuinely modest man, makes light of being an award-winning musician and a true champion, and he quickly deflects the praise and recognizes others.

Link: https://www.blueridgeheritage.com/artist/steve-lewis/

Tickets are $12.00 in advance and $15.00 the day of the show.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/pickin-with-presley-2018-10-20.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/pickin-with-presley-2018-10-20 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.
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