2019 Rhythm & Ribs
Venue: Jackson Park, Pulaski
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Becki and The Boom Booms, Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley, Hoppie Vaughan and the Ministers of Soul, The Billy Crawford Band, Victor Lawson and the Boogie Chillin Band
Date: Friday, July 19, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous
Cost: Free

Description:
The Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley presents the 5th Annual Rhythm & Ribs event on Friday, July 19, 2019 at Jackson Park in Pulaski, VA.

Event Schedule:
• 11:30 am: Victor Lawson and the Boogie Chillin Band
• 2:30 pm: Becki and The Boom Booms
• 5:00 pm: Hoppie Vaghan & The Ministers of Soul
• 7:30 pm: The Billy Crawford Band

Enjoy music in the park all day, food including ribs and more, beer and vendors all day!

Victor Lawson and the Boogie Chillen Band have forged an identity as a good-time party band that plays the real deal blues and down in the mud rock ‘n roll and funk music as well. The tight three-man band takes their name from the song, “Boogie Chillen” which was made famous by late Delta blues icon, John Lee Hooker.

The band was born in 2010 and is the creation of singer, guitarist and bandleader Victor Lawson, whose incendiary guitar playing and powerful performances have riveted audiences throughout the region. From Tennessee to Virginia to West Virginia, in bars and saloons and restaurants and festivals, wherever people gather for good times, Victor Lawson and Boogie Chillen’s exuberant, joyful music has made the band one of the area’s premier attractions.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/victorlawsonandboogiechillen

Becki and The Boom Booms perform an eclectic cocktail of blues, jazz, and rock standards and other unique selections, all with a sultry boom booms twist.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/beckiandtheboombooms

Hoppie Vaughan and the Ministers of Soul are a Roanoke, VA based band performing classic soul and R&B and fronted by Hoppie Vaughan.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/MinistersOfSoul

Billy Crawford was raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues. Now playing with his band, The Billy Crawford Band, he performs blues rock across the region.

Blues guitar might be associated with Mississippi, Texas and Chicago, but a man of the mid-South has something to say about that. The city of Bristol, smack on the Tennessee / Virginia border, claims itself as the birthplace of country music. But one of its native sons is making a huge blues noise.

The common denominator in all of this is Billy Crawford – raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues.

For much of the 1990s, audiences around the world heard Crawford’s intense work with blues-rocker Deborah Coleman. He gave up the road in 2002, when his wife gave birth to their son. Turns out, son Tyler is a little guitar hotshot, too.

But his daddy still has something to say. His Bristol-based Billy Crawford Band includes some of that region’s finest blues men. The fire is still burning blue from Crawford’s Guitar, as he rips through blues, ballads, rock, surf – even New Orleans-style. Underpinning it all is a band with plenty of energy and mastery of dynamics.

Links:

• http://www.thebillycrawfordband.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/TheBillyCrawfordBand

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Bring a lawn chair, your dancing shoes and an appetite.

No outside food, beverages or coolers allowed. IDs will be checked and bags are subject to inspection.

To volunteer at the event, visit: https://townofpulaski.ivolunteer.com/rhythmribs19.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/zvdbQCN.jpg.

For more information, contact the Fine Arts Center at 540-980-7363 or email info@Facnrv.org or visit https://www.facebook.com/events/2238310439758673/.

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