| Date: | March 16, 2018 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 10:00 PM |
| Venue: | Little River Bluegrass Barn |
| Organizations: | Chuck Wagon Gang, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver |
| Cost: |
General Admission: $30.00 Reserved Seating: $40.00
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| Description: |
The Little River Bluegrass Barn presents Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver in Concert with opening act Chuckwagon Gang on Friday, March 16, 2018. With nearly 40 albums to their credit, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have multiple Grammy, Dove, ICM, IBMA and SPBGMA Award nominations, and are 7-time winners of IBMA’s Vocal Group of the Year. Lawson is a SPBGMA Mandolin Player of the Year, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have also been the Inspirational Country Music Association (ICM) Vocal Group of the Year, crowned in October 2012 at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, on the heels of Lawson’s induction into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame at the Ryman Auditorium on September 27, 2012. Doyle is best known as an accomplished and award-winning vocalist, mandolin player, producer, and leader of the 6-man band he founded in 1979, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. A native Tennessean, he was honored in February 2012 by Governor Bill Haslam and the State of Tennessee for his contributions to the state and America through his music. Legendary in the Bluegrass genre and called a “mandolin virtuoso” with “perfectly silken harmony” by The New York Times. Links: • https://doylelawson.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/doylelawsonofficial The Chuck Wagon Gang is a gospel music group who's been performing for more than 80 years and is currently based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Eighty years in any business is a long time, particularly in a musical group of any genre. The Chuck Wagon Gang holds the distinction of being the oldest recording mixed gospel group still performing with ties to the original founding members. By trade, the Carters were farmers, who migrated from place to place to pick cotton. The singing group came from humble beginnings in 1935, as the Carters found themselves in Lubbock, Texas, without enough money to buy medicine for a sick child, Effie. Dave Carter and two of his children, Lola and Ernest of his Carter Quartet (no relation to the Carter Family of Bristol, VA) arrived at radio station KFYO in Lubbock seeking live singing employment on radio in order to buy medicine for Effie. They landed the job, Effie soon re-joined them, and the Carter Quartet remained at the station for about a year. As with any organization, and particularly with a music group, personnel changes are inevitable and the expected for various reasons. The Chuck Wagon Gang remained essentially a family group through the years. As family members retired or left the group, other family members as well as non-family members came into the group. To date, forty-nine known individuals have played their respective roles in the Chuck Wagon Gang. This is not a lot of people, considering the longevity of the group. Each edition has remained a close-harmony quartet, and contributed to the onward success of the Chuck Wagon Gang. In 1998 all past members of the Gang were inducted into the Gospel Music Association’s Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN. Their recordings are among the historic recordings at both the White House and The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. Links: • http://www.thechuckwagongang.net/ • https://www.facebook.com/TheOfficialChuckWagonGang • https://www.twitter.com/chuckwagongang General Admission tickets are $30.00 and are available for purchase at Riner Food Center, The Sportsman, Fatback Soul Shack, Due South and Radford Travel Center. Reserved Seating tickets are $40.00 and are available by calling 540-320-6145. Doors open at 6:00 pm and the show starts at 7:00 pm. The Little River Bluegrass Barn is located at 7800 Little River Dam Road in Radford, VA. To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/RE0oHNS.jpg. For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/littleriverbluegrassbarnweddings or call 540-320-6145. |