2025 Paw Paw Festival with Live Music from Bobby Parker
Venue: JBR Vineyards LLC, Pearisburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Bobby Parker
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous
Cost: Free
JBR Vineyards & Winery presents their 6th Annual Paw Paw Festival on Saturday, September 6, 2025 and Sunday, September 7, 2025 from 12:00-5:00 daily.
Celebrate America’s forgotten native tropical fruit, rediscovered at JBR Vineyards’ Pawpaw Festival! Enjoy a mountain weekend filled with live music, great wine, a walk through the pawpaw patch, visit the pawpaw display table with a limited number of saplings & seeds available, vineyard tours with the winemaker starting at 3:00 PM both days, the Simple Fixins' food truck and learning about pawpaws.
Pawpaws are an integral part of Appalachian history. They are a native North American fruit. Native Americans not only ate the fruit; they made rope out of the bark. The Shawnee had a “paw paw month” on their calendar. George Washington’s favorite dessert was chilled pawpaw, and pawpaws are mentioned in Lewis and Clark’s log. Mary Draper Ingles was sustained by paw paws on her long trek home from captivity.
For various reasons, pawpaws have no commercial value, so people rarely see or hear about them. Few people know about this fruit and how easy it is to grow in their own yards.
On Saturday, enjoy the music of The Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers and on Sunday, Bobby Parker performs.
Bobby Parker is a folk, soul, pop and blues singer and 6- and 12-string guitarist with a broad spectrum of influences ranging from Lead Belly to Bob Dylan to Cat Stevens, the Dead/Feat/Band catalog, both Elvises (Presley and Costello), Hank Williams, Sr., the Drive-By Truckers and Talking Heads.
He's traveled widely and studied at the feet of many musical masters, at clubs and concerts, on sunny back porch afternoons, moonlit riverbanks, late nights in dorm rooms and living rooms and anywhere a coffee cup or a campfire can be found.
These days he lives in Blacksburg and is a regular on the regional scene, having performed at FloydFest, countless New River Valley venues and beyond, as a solo performer, with the country blues duo Attic Static and funky folk trio Hot Diggity Dog.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/bobbyparkermusic
Admission is free.
Children and well-behaved dogs are welcome.
JBR Vineyards is located at 1360 Springdale Road in Pearisburg, VA.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65aafa891d35cd21d203aeff/5d90e0ca-c401-42d7-bb9d-1c6439b1bd07/paw+flyer+25.jpg.
For more information, visit: https://www.jbrvineyards.com/events/6th-annual-pawpaw-festival-at-jbr-vineyards or https://www.facebook.com/jbrwine or call 540-250-7291.
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