The Blue Ridge Music Center will reopen to visitors for the season on Thursday, May 2, with a free Midday Mountain Music performance from noon to 3 p.m. by Scott Freeman and Willard Gayheart. The Visitor Center will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday-Monday, from May 2-20, and daily from May 23-Oct. 31.
Midday Mountain Music is a free, informal music presentation by local and regional musicians held on the covered breezeway every day the venue is open. Visitors are invited to listen for a few minutes or the whole session.
Midday Mountain Music schedule:
– Sundays: Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers
– Mondays: The Buck Mountaineers
– Tuesdays: Cedar Ridge
– Wednesdays: Gen 3
– Thursdays: Scott Freeman and Willard Gayheart
– Fridays: Bluegrass Jam with Jim Purcell and Lynn Wolf
– First Saturdays of the month: special guest band
– Second Saturdays: special guest band
– Third Saturdays: Sugarloaf Mountain Band
– Fourth Saturdays: Blue Ridge Ramblers
– Fifth Saturdays: special guest band
Visitors can tour the award-winning Roots of American Music Museum, take home a souvenir from the America’s National Parks gift shop, or hike the Fisher Peak Loop or High Meadow Trail, which includes fun Kids in Parks activities. The visiting exhibit “Half-Tone Folk Heroes: Traditional Musicians as Pop Art” by illustrator Gina Dilg will be on display starting June 1 in the Luthier Shop.
The Music Center’s Deep Roots, Many Voices: Summer Concert Series kicks off on May 25, with outdoor concerts hosted Saturday evenings through August in the amphitheater. Gates open at 5:45 p.m. and concerts begin at 7 p.m. Tickets and a full schedule of concerts are available at BlueRidgeMusicCenter.org.
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