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2023 Annual Gospel Singing Fundraiser with Junior Sisk, The Comptons, Hylton Family Reunion & More
Venue: Floyd County Volunteer Fire Department Station #2, Willis
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Junior Sisk Band, The Comptons
Date: Sunday, August 20, 2023
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous, Charity
Cost:
Free admission. Donations greatly appreciated.

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Description:
The Floyd County Volunteer Fire Department Station #2 presents the 25th Annual Annual Gospel Singing Fundraiser with music from Junior Sisk & Friends, The Comptons, Hylton Family Reunion and the Lower Dam Band on Sunday, August 20, 2023.

We are excited to be celebrating 25 years of being able to put this show on for the community and we hope you will join us! The group’s preforming this year are Junior Sisk and Friends (not his normal band), Hylton Family Reunion, The Comptons and the Lower Dam Band. There will also be a Cake and Pie Auction. The big auction item will be a homemade quilt made by Willis’ own Uldine Duncan.

There is no entry fee and food, drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.

All proceeds and donations directly benefit your Willis Fired Department Volunteers and help us stay up to date on life saving equipment. If you wish to donate, but can’t attend please reach out to us.

Junior Sisk is widely recognized as one of today's top bluegrass vocalists, and a constant reminder that traditional bluegrass is still alive and well. A longtime resident of the Virginia Blue Ridge, his bluegrass pedigree runs deep. Influenced by a father who wrote songs and played guitar and a mother who sang, Sisk first learned to play around age 14. His early influences included The Stanley Brothers, Larry Sparks, and Dave Evans, but he often credits the Johnson Mountain Boys with inspiring him to pursue bluegrass professionally.

Sisk first made his mark in bluegrass as a songwriter in the early 1990s, penning classic Lonesome River Band songs like "Game (I Can't Win)" and "Tears Are Blinding Me." As a member of Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz and Blueridge, he helped define the sound of driving, modern traditional bluegrass. In 1998, Sisk founded the Ramblers Choice band, and released "Sounds of the Mountains" on Rounder Records. After leaving Blueridge in 2006, he reformed Ramblers Choice and began a successful career on Rebel Records.

His 2011 album Heart of a Song helped bring the band into the spotlight and earned the prestigious IBMA Album of the Year Award in 2012. Its single "A Far Cry from Lester and Earl," which Sisk co-wrote, became a rallying cry for a resurgence of traditional sounds in bluegrass and additionally, received the 2012 Song of the Year Award from the IBMA. Sisk was further honored when he was named 2013 IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year, and his band earned the 2014 SPBGMA Bluegrass Band of the Year award. In 2016, "Longneck Blues," a collaboration with noted singer-songwriter Ronnie Bowman, was named Recorded Event of the Year by the IBMA. Most recently, Sisk received the 2017 Male Vocalist of the Year award from SPBGMA.

In 2015, Sisk signed with Mountain Fever Records and has been happily turning out hit after hit for them ever since. His most recent album, Brand New Shade Of Blue boasts the chart topping single "Whiskey and the Guitar."

Links:

• https://juniorsisk.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/juniorsiskband

The Compton brothers, Darryl and Roger, began playing bluegrass gospel music in the 80's in church then was joined shortly after by their dad, Clinton Compton. The three make their home in Willis, VA in Floyd county.

The band just changed members about a year and a half ago. Tim Goins from Mt. Airy, NC now plays dobro and banjo with the group, whichever the song may call for. Tim in the past has played with such groups as the Easter Brothers, Mark Templeton and New Vision, Lynwood Lunsford and many more.

There are times when the Compton' friends consist of Doug Holly from Floyd on guitar and some vocals, also Jimmy Creed, cousin of the Comptons, on mandolin or guitar.

Links:

• http://comptonbluegrass.tripod.com/index.html
• https://www.facebook.com/The-Comptons-Friends-139296176140731/

Don’t forget your chairs and we hope to see you there!

Floyd County Volunteer Fire Department Station #2 is located at 187 Firehouse Road in Willis, VA.

For more information, visit: http://www.floydcova.org/fd or https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080428770018 or https://www.facebook.com/events/987393879258625/ or call 540-789-7030.