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2023 Mary Draper Ingles Festival: Celebration with Mary Draper Ingles Performance, Live Music & More
Venue: Long Way Brewing, Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Clover Hollow, Keith Goggin, Mary Draper Ingles Festival, The Divided Highway
Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
Time: 12:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
The 2023 Mary Draper Ingles Festival continues with a Mary Draper Ingles Celebration at Long Way Brewing on Saturday, July 29, 2023.

Event Schedule:
• 12:00-9:00 PM: Food Trucks
• 12:00-6:00 PM: Kidz Zone
• 12:00-3:00 PM The Divided Highway in Concert
• 3:00-6:00 PM: Keith Goggin in Concert
• 5:30 PM: Floyd Historical Dancers Performance
• 6:15-7:15 PM: Mary Draper Ingles Interpretative Performance
• 7:30-10:00 PM: Clover Hollow in Concert

Enjoy a Mary Draper Ingles Interpretative Performance from West Virginia actress, storyteller and historian Karen Vuranch, Floyd Historical Dancers, a Kidz Zone, live music from The Divided Highway (12:00-3:00 PM), Keith Goggin (3:00-6:00 PM) and Clover Hollow (7:30-10:00 PM), food trucks Bootleg BBQ and Aloha Eddie Shaved Ice.

The Divided Highway is a duo originated in the New River Valley of Southwest VA. Garett King’s rock and pop punk influenced lead guitar and vocals merge with Kory Wirt’s country and folk twang and rhythm guitar, promising to give a unique experience to the classic cover songs you know and love. Any song is fair game.

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

Keith Goggin is an acoustic and blues guitarist musician based in Southwest Virginia who's been performing for decades.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089592404209

Seated in southern Appalachia, Laura Beth and Clover Hollow embody the authentic roots music that surround them while producing a signature sound that is original, sharp and refreshing - blues-rock, bluegrass, old time, and old-school-country all meld together into the soul of their music.

When they assembled in 2008, they discovered something special in each other - an immediate and unique chemistry that is reflected in each note they materialize. It’s easy to hear in their successful debut cd, The Mill Sessions - recorded live in an old grain mill in Southwest VA. Laura Beth’s songwriting is authentic and smooth and her vocals will cut straight through to your heart. Together, these top-notch musicians transport you to whisky weeping heartbreak to quiet introspection to rhythm stomping anthems of revelry.

Inspired and skillful leads are offered up by Chris Printz (mandolin), Chris Burgoyne (guitar), and Joe Abercrombie (banjo and dobro), while John Munsell (string bass) holds up the groove. Laura Beth sings lead, plays rhythm guitar and writes the tunes that are now staples far beyond their hometown of Blacksburg, VA.

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/clover.hollow.band
• https://www.reverbnation.com/cloverhollow

Admission is free.

The 2023 Mary Draper Ingles Festival commemorating the capture, escape and grueling return journey of one of Virginia’s most famous colonial heroines will take place July 28-30, 2023 in the City of Radford and surrounding communities.

The Mary Draper Ingles Festival commemorates the capture, escape and grueling return journey of one of Virginia’s most famous colonial heroines takes place annually throughout the City of Radford, VA and the surrounding communities.

Mary Draper Ingles (1732 - 1815), was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia. In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War. They were taken to Lower Shawneetown at the Ohio and Scioto rivers. Ingles escaped with another woman after two and a half months, making a trek of 500 to 600 miles crossing numerous rivers and creeks, and over the Appalachian Mountains to return home to Radford, VA.

The story of Mary’s undeniable determination continues to capture interest more than 260 years later, resulting in numerous books, including "Follow the River", a “New York Times” bestseller, and several outdoor dramas and movies.

Link: https://www.marydraperingles.com/

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Long Way Brewing is located at 501 2nd Street in Radford, VA.

For more information on Long Way Brewing, visit: http://www.longwaybrewing.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/longwaybrewing or https://www.instagram.com/longwaybrewing/.

For more information on the festival, visit: https://www.glencoemansion.org/mdifestival or https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064738926933 or call 540-731-5031.