Fiddles, guitars, banjos, and clogging take center stage at the Montgomery Museum’s Cultural Crossroads in Traditional Music and Dance concert, featuring regional heritage artists representing old-time, bluegrass, and dance at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, November 6, at 7PM.
The concert program aims to enlighten audiences about the various cultural influences in Appalachian music. This concert will feature a multicultural perspective and emphasis on its roots and early influences from African American, Indigenous First people, Japanese, Hispanic/Latino, and Western European cultures.
The concert will feature 12 diverse performing artists including the New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters, The Lua Project, Mist on the Mountain, Kazuhiro Inaba, Earl White Band, Jarrett Wildcatt, Jack Hinshelwood, Phil Jamison, Green Grass Cloggers, Jacob Wright, Dr. Dena Jennings, and Victor Dowdy with an introduction by The Crooked Road Director, Tyler Hughes…