| Date: | May 26, 2017 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 10:00 PM |
| Venue: | Jackson Park |
| Organizations: | Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley, The Billy Crawford Band |
| Description: |
The Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley and the Town of Pulaski present Sounds of Summer with music from The Billy Crawford Band on Friday, May 26, 2017 at Jackson Park in Pulaski, VA. Join us as we kick off Memorial Day Weekend and Summer Break. Music is free and fun requires your participation. Food and beverage will be available for purchase. Billy Crawford was raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues. Now playing with his band, The Billy Crawford Band, he performs blues rock across the region. Blues guitar might be associated with Mississippi, Texas and Chicago, but a man of the mid-South has something to say about that. The city of Bristol, smack on the Tennessee / Virginia border, claims itself as the birthplace of country music. But one of its native sons is making a huge blues noise. The common denominator in all of this is Billy Crawford – raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues. For much of the 1990s, audiences around the world heard Crawford’s intense work with blues-rocker Deborah Coleman. He gave up the road in 2002, when his wife gave birth to their son. Turns out, son Tyler is a little guitar hotshot, too. But his daddy still has something to say. His Bristol-based Billy Crawford Band includes some of that region’s finest blues men. The fire is still burning blue from Crawford’s Guitar, as he rips through blues, ballads, rock, surf – even New Orleans-style. Underpinning it all is a band with plenty of energy and mastery of dynamics. Links: • http://www.thebillycrawfordband.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/TheBillyCrawfordBand Admission is free and all are welcome. For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/398549630524000/ or https://www.facebook.com/facnrv/. |