After a Hot Summer of festivals and fiddler's conventions, we are proud top announce our new venture
of weekend workshops for those desiring a get-away that involves music instruction and adventures.
For specific details we ask you to visit www.southernmtnmelodies.com
Please get in touch if you have a notion to participate or have questions. We already have a few
folks staking claims as we intend to keep this small and intimate, however, we do want to fill up
the dates soon as we can. We plan to make other announcements on Facebook as well as on
Banjo Hangout soon.
There's so much happening in and around the Crooked Road region of Southwest Virginia. In case you are not familiar please check out www.thecrookedroad.org
We are about honoring the old-time string musical heritage of the region. It is what motivates us to
keep singing the old songs and playing the old tunes that have been hand down to anyone who will
get into learning them. We also want to keep the older styles alive as well. Sometimes its not the song
words or the tune melody itself but it is the nuances of the way it was done that attracts us to learn certain versions. We are collectors not only of tunes and songs
found here locally performed by the original mountain people who learned them from their elders in their time but we collect their banjo tunings, guitar runs and fiddle bowing patterns as well.
So if you are a budding connoisseur of old-time music we want to help you out. We love it!
