2024 Music on the Lawn with Eight Point Star
Venue: Christiansburg Library, Christiansburg
Organizations: Eight Point Star
Date: Saturday, August 24, 2024
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
Description:
The Christiansburg Library continues the 2024 Music on the Lawn with Eight Point Star on Saturday, August 24, 2024.

Eight Point Star is a New River Valley-Roanoke collective gathered around old-time and improvisational fiddler Mike Gangloff and bluesy fingerstyle guitarist Matt Peyton that draws on traditional and international roots to create a sound all their own.

With hardanger fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, banjos, gongs, singing bowls and lots more, this is a mostly acoustic sound, but with Matt's theremin and other electronics occasionally rising to the surface sometimes from the Golden Age jazz or Great American Songbook classics that Cara grew up singing, sometimes from the urgent, raw blues that Matt has pursued and sometimes from pure, free improvisation aimed at creating an in-the-moment symphony. This is extended Appalachian music with a story of its own to tell.

Solid, bluesy fingerstyle guitar and soaring, scratchy hardanger fiddle combine for duo explorations; a search for beauty.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/Eight-Point-Star-Band-2115905332014152/

Christiansburg Library and the Friends of the Library are happy to announce the return of Music on the Lawn, our annual free concert series. On the fourth Saturday of each month, one talented local band will play a concert on our lawn after hours.

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets for an evening under the stars. Feel free to bring a picnic as well!

This concert is rain or shine. In case of rain, the concert will be moved inside.

The Christiansburg Library is located at 125 Sheltman Street in Christiansburg, VA.

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christiansburg-Library-Montgomery-Floyd-Regional-Library-System-Va/343472325300 or call 540-382-6965.