BLUE RIDGE MUSIC MAKERS GUILD

UP COMING EVENTS

 

BARBARA POOLE MEMORIAL BASS CONTEST WINNERS

 

BLUE RIDGE MUSIC MAKERS GUILD

BARBARA POOLE MEMORIAL CONCERT

APRIL 21, 2012

FAIRVIEW RURITAN CLUB

GALAX, VIRGINIA

Admission is $5.00 children under 12 FREE

Sponsored by the Blue Ridge Music Makers Guild and Fairview Ruritan Club

 

 

Playing at 5 PM will be Bill & Maggie Anderson

Playing at 6 PM will be The Country

Playing at 7 PM will be Fisher's Peak Timber Rattlers

Playing at 8 PM will be The Comptons

BLUE RIDGE MUSIC MAKERS GUILD

will be live on 98.1 FM  WBRF from 8 - 10 PM

FRIDAY APRIL 27, 2012 

BLUE RIDGE BACK ROADS LIVE at the

THE HISTORIC REX THEATRE on GRAYSON ST. in GALAX, VIRGINIA

 

 
10 ANNUAL BLUE RIDGE BANJO SHOOTOUT

SATURDAY MAY 19, 2012

HISTORIC REX THEATRE on GRAYSON ST., GALAX, VA

$2350.00 in cash prizes will be given

REGISTRATION FROM 3 - 5 PM COMPETITION @ 6 PM

ADULT COMPETITION

1st PRIZE in each Category $200.00

2nd PRIZE in each Category $125.00

3rd PRIZE in each Category $75.00

4th PRIZE in each Category $50.00

YOUTH COMPETITION

1st PRIZE in each Category $125.00

2nd PRIZE in each Category $75.00

3rd PRIZE in each Category $50.00

4th PRIZE in each Category $25.00

SPECIAL BLUE RIBBON AWARD IN MEMORY OF HOUSTON CALDWELL

For the most ENTHUSIASTIC BANJO PLAYER in the Youth Competition

 

 

 

 

SONGWRITERS LIVE from THE REX THEATRE

FRIDAY DECEMBER 7, 2012

FEATURED ON THE 

BLUE RIDGE BACK ROADS LIVE FROM 98.1 FM WBRF

FROM 8 - 10 PM

 

 

 
 
 

 

 
 

MUSIC MAKERS OF THE BLUE RIDGE PLATEAU
 

 

 BARBARA POOLE MEMORIAL BASS CONTEST WINNERS

2011 BEST ALL AROUND BLUEGRASS BASS PLAYER

TOMMY NICHOLS OF THE BAND NARROW ROAD

 

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2011 BEST ALL AROUND OLD TIME BASS PLAYER

DON GOLLADAY OF THE BAND

CORNBREAD AND BUTTERMILK

 2010 BEST ALL AROUND BLUEGRASS BASS PLAYER

TOMMY NICHOLS OF THE BAND NARROW ROAD

2010 BEST ALL AROUND OLD TIME BASS PLAYER

KAREN CARR OF THE BAND 

THE CROOKED ROAD RAMBLERS

 

 9th ANNUAL BLUE RIDGE BANJO SHOOTOUT

HOME

WINNERS OF THE GALAX CENTENNIAL SONG CONTEST

1st:  Sherry Spence - Sentimental   "Galax Mountain Music Time"

2nd:  John Carpenter - Sentimental  "Here in Galax"

1st: Sue Higgins/Larry Lindsey  - Historical "Mountain Town"

2nd: Othar Fortner/Frankie Fortner - Historical  "Pulling Into Galax"

 

 

CARROLL COUNTY SONG WINNER'S

1st: Kimberly Ramsey - Historical  "My Carroll County Home"

1st: Clarence Roberts - Sentimental "Carroll County"

2nd: Martin Maples/Sarah Liddle - Sentimental "Carroll County Homecoming"

3rd: John Carpenter - Sentimental "Child of the Mountain 'My Carroll County Home'"

ALL AROUND BEST PERFORMANCE "CLARENCE ROBERTS"