New River Trail Conservancy Benefit Concert featuring Wayne Henderson and Helen White
Venue: Draper Mercantile and Trading Company, Draper
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2013
Time: 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Speaking Engagements, Charity
Cost:
Tickets are $10.00-$50.00. You decide how much you want to donate.

Description:
The New River Trail Conservancy presents a benefit concert featuring the music of Wayne Henderson and Helen White on Sunday, September 8th at the Draper Mercantile in Pulaski.

Come celebrate mountain music and help protect our mountain scenery! Taking the New River Trail from past to the future. Draper Mercantile supper items, local roast coffee, beer and wine will be available.

Wayne Henderson’s top-notch finger-picking is a source of great pleasure and pride to his friends, family, and neighbors in Grayson County, 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. Doc Watson, a good friend who sometimes stops at Wayne’s shop in Rugby, VA, to pick a few tunes, owns 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.”

For more information on Wayne, visit: http://www.waynehenderson.org/Wayne/AboutWayne.htm

Helen White is the founder and regional coordinator of the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program which introduces Appalachian children to their musical heritage. An award-winning singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer in her own right, Helen has toured extensively with Wayne in the U.S. and Europe. Both are frequent instructors at major traditional music camps across the country.

Doors open at 5:30 pm with speakers and the music beginning at 6:30 pm.

Proceeds benefit the New River Trail Conservancy, a nonprofit encouraging conservation easements along the New River Trail. For more information, visit: http://www.newriverlandtrust.org/conservancy.htm

For more information on this event, visit: http://www.drapermerc.com/events/upcoming-special-events/

For more information on the Draper Mercantile, visit: http://www.drapermerc.com or call: 540-994-5659.

Disclaimer: NextThreeDays relies on restaurants and venues to keep us up-to-date as their pricing and weekly specials change. If this special/event is incorrect, please email info@NextThreeDays.com with "Incorrect Special/Event" in the subject line and a description of the issue. Thanks for your help!

Want to hear the latest on what's happening with local events in the New River Valley?
Click here to Sign-up for our Email Newsletter.

Have an event you want to Submit on NextThreeDays? Click here for our Submit Event Form.

And join NextThreeDays on Facebook and Twitter.