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The Sounds of the Blue Ridge

Four music stages pack over 20 hours of music into the BRFF day. From Gospel to Blues, with a world of string band and old-time bluegrass pickin’ in between, the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival highlights “real roots” musicians who have been playing the music of the Southern Highlands most, if not all, of their lives.
Time Stringband Stage
Announcers Jim Lloyd & Jim Costa
10:00 – 10:30 Orchestra Appalachia
10:30 – 11:00 Carl Johnson & Friends
11:00 – 11:30 The Jack Tales
11:30 – 12:00 Orville Hicks
12:00 – 12:30 The Biscuit Eaters
12:30 – 1:00 Hillary Klug
1:00 – 1:30 Lloyd & Costa
1:30 – 2:00 Gap Civil
2:00 – 2:30 The Jack Tales
2:30 – 3:00 Carl Johnson & Friends
3:00 – 3:30 The Biscuit Eaters
3:30 – 4:00 Trish Fore & the Wildcats
4:00 – 4:30 Lloyd & Costa
4:30 – 5:00 Friday Nite Old Time Band
TimeFarm Stage
AnnouncersGreg Kimball & Bill Smith
10:00 – 10:30Fri Nite Old Time Band
10:30 – 11:00Jeffery Scott
11:00 – 11:30Highlanders
11:30 – 12:00The New NC Ramblers
12:00 – 12:3050th BRFF Announcement
12:30 – 1:00Harrison Ridge
1:00 – 1:30Orville Hicks
1:30 – 2:00                    Highlanders
2:00 – 2:30Old Tunes – Workshop by Kinny Rorrer
2:30 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:30New NC Ramblers
3:30 – 4:00Hillary Klug (Dance Class)
4:00 – 4:30Twin Creeks
4:30 – 5:00
Time Sunken Stage
Announcers Dale Morris & Kevin Dunlevy
10:00 – 10:30 Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters
10:30 – 11:00 Tribute to Old Time Blue Ridge Musicians led by Trish Fore
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00 Sheets Family
12:00 – 12:30 Wayne Henderson & Friends
12:30 – 1:00 Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters
1:00 – 1:30 Larry Sigmon & the VA Girls
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 2:30 Wayne Henderson & Friends
2:30 – 3:00 Highlanders
3:00 – 3:30 Jeffery Scott
3:30 – 4:00 Harrison Ridge
4:00 – 4:30 The Sheets Family
4:30 – 5:00 Hillary Klug
Time Gospel Stage
Announcers John Mitchell
10:00 – 10:30 Envue
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 Larnell Starkey & the Spritiual Seven
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30 Bishop Hardy
12:30 – 1:00
1:00 – 1:30 Tom Cook & Company
1:30 – 2:00
2:00 – 2:30 Perkins & Envision
2:30 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:30 Joy Bells
3:30 – 4:00
4:00 – 4:30
4:30 – 5:00