2025 Music on the Lawn Concert Series with Eight Point Star
Venue: Christiansburg Library, Christiansburg
Organizations: Eight Point Star
Date: Saturday, August 23, 2025
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
Description:
The Christiansburg Library continues their 2025 Music on the Lawn Concert Series with Eight Point Star on Saturday, August 23, 2025.

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/

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets.

This free 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.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/0QcHmwh6/image.png.

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/ or https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064875634681 or https://www.facebook.com/events/1428127371744677/ or call 540-382-6965.