| Date: | June 14, 2016 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 10:00 PM |
| Venue: | Mountain Lake Lodge |
| Organizations: | Mountains of Music Homecoming |
| Cost: |
Advance Tickets: $12.00 After May 31, 2016: $15.00
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| Description: |
The Mountains of Music Homecoming presents the TCR Guitar Masters Concert featuring Wayne Henderson, Gerald Anderson, Ralph Stanley II, J.C. Poff, Tori Bartfai and Scott Fore on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at Mountain Lake Lodge. The second concert of Southwest Virginia master guitarists will feature six additional guitar talents with a wonderful variety of styles, including two players who are also renowned makers of guitars. Wayne Henderson, one of the acclaimed luthiers, is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Award, and a masterful finger-style guitar player who has performed at Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of "Masters of the Steel-String Guitar," and in seven nations in Asia. His guitar making counterpart, Troutdale, Virginia-resident Gerald Anderson has many records and guitar playing awards to his credit such as contest winner at the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention playing three finger style. Ralph Stanley II grew up around the Stanley Brothers tradition and is a master of the cross pick style pioneered by former Stanley Brothers guitarist George Shuffler. After playing guitar in his father’s band, the Clinch Mountain Boys, Ralph II went solo, and has thus far released six albums. Guitarist J. C. Poff, a Christiansburg, Virginia-resident who once owned a regionally significant music store in Christiansburg plays a unique style that features an unusually full sound generated by keeping most of the strings in constant vibration around his lead playing. Victoria “Tori” Bartfai from Cedar Bluff in Tazewell County has studied music in New York City, and as a guitarist, her clean and precise style has been influenced by a range of musical genres, from bluegrass, rock, and jazz, to classical. Rounding out this great collection of guitarists will be two time national flatpicking guitar champion Scott Fore, a Radford, Virginia-resident who has won more handmade guitars with his flatpicking talents than most people ever get a chance to play. Fore has published a popular instructional book on flatpicking. To purchase tickets in advance, visit: http://www.etix.com/ticket/p/8110706/. The Crooked Road’s Mountains of Music Homecoming is an annual nine-day, region-wide celebration of the communities in Southwest Virginia – their traditional music, and all their many cultural and natural assets. The event includes Crooked Road marquee concerts in over 20 communities and many dozens of cultural experiences throughout the region. For more information, visit: http://mtnsofmusic.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/mtnsofmusichomecoming. |