Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News: Lonesome Will Mullins and the Virginia Playboys Play the Carter Fold

BMNN wrote: on Apr. 26, 2009:
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, will present a concert by Lonesome Will Mullins and the Virginia Playboys. Admission to the concert is $5 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free. Lonesome Will Mullins grew up near Clintwood, Virginia, in a house that was filled with family musicians and plenty of bluegrass, old time, and country music. He learned to play the banjo and guitar as a teenager, and before long he was playing in several bands while honing his trade by studying the work of bluegrass legends like Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin, and Dr. Ralph Stanley. To say he learned well would be an understatement. Today, Lonesome Will is one of the most accomplished singers and musicians around.

Lonesome Will was also influenced by Jerry Lee Lewis, he mixes traditional bluegrass music with a breathtakingly energetic stage show. Backed by his tremendous band the Virginia Playboys, Will presents a show jam-packed with hard driving bluegrass, old time clawhammer banjo, and gospel music. For more information on Lonesome Will Mullins and the Virginia Playboys, go to their MySpace Page

For some of the best bluegrass and old time music you’ll ever hear, don’t miss Lonesome Will Mullins and the Virginia Playboys at the Carter Family Fold. Bring along your dancing shoes, and be prepared for an evening of fun-filled entertainment you’ll remember for a long time to come!

Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Incorporated, is a nonprofit, rural arts organization established to preserve traditional, acoustic, mountain music. For further information on the center, go to www.CarterFamilyFold.org. Shows from the Carter Family Fold can be accessed on the internet at http://www.carterfoldshow.com. Carter Music Center is part of the Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail. You can visit the Crooked Road Music Trail site at TheCrookedRoad.org. Partial funding for programs at the center is provided by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information on Saturday’s concert, contact the Mountain Music Museum at 276-645-0035. For recorded information on shows coming up at the Fold, call 276-386-6054

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