Category Archives: Blue Ridge Institute
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Country Road
Posted on May 3, 2012 by Shellie Leete in biscuits and bluegrass, Blue Ridge Institute, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, crooked road virginia's heritage music trail, dq band, Franklin County VAAir Tran Magazine explores the Crooked Road… VIRGINIA’ S CROOKED ROAD — HOME TO SPONTANEOUS BLUE GRASS JAMS , THE CARTER FAMILY FOLD AND FURIOUS FIDDLING — IS APPALACHIA’S MUSICAL LEGACY. “Biscuits and Bluegrass” DQ Band pickin’ at BoJangles during the breakfast hour Flat foot your way through Appalachia along Virginia’s Heritage Crooked Road where [...]
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What is your Popular Pursuit?
Posted on October 25, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Institute, blue ridge mountains. claiborne house bed breakfast, espn smith mountain lake, Fairystone State Park, Martinsville Speedway, O Winston Link, Philpott Lake, trip advisor reviewTRIPADVISOR SURVEY REVEALS GROWTH SPURT IN FAMILY TRAVEL According to a Trip Advisor Study - trip advisor NEWTON, Mass. — March 25, 2010 /PRNewswire/ - WORLD’S MOST TRUSTED TRAVEL ADVICE. Claiborne House Bed and Breakfast Generation Jet-Set The youth of today are better-traveled than ever, according to TripAdvisor’s survey. 75 percent of travelers’ children (those under the [...]
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Yes Virginia, We have Bluegrass at Dairy Queen!
Posted on October 2, 2010 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Institute, Bluegrass Dairy Queen, Claiborne House Bed Breakfast, dq band, Footlights of the Blue Ridge, Rocky Mount VA, The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music TrailEvery Thursday from 9-10am you can sit back with your order of biscuits and gravy and toe tap to bluegrass at our local Rocky Mount Dairy Queen. (Sept to May) Take a trip to these Blue Ridge Mountains and find yourself in some unusual pickin’ spots! Rocky Mount is the official start of The [...]
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Shape Note Singing – a Southern Tradition
Posted on October 16, 2009 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, Blue Ridge Institute, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Creek Freaks of Franklin County VA, Ferrum College, Primitive Singing, Shape Note SingingShape notes are a music notation designed to facilitate congregational singing. Shape notes of various kinds have been used for over two centuries in a variety of sacred music traditions practiced primarily in the Southern region of the United States. The idea behind shape notes is that the parts of a vocal work can be [...]
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Take a musical trip on The Crooked Road
Posted on April 6, 2009 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Institute, Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Floyd Va, Franklin County VA, The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music TrailBILL LOHMANN TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF Published: April 5, 2009 SLIDESHOW: Crooked Road Travel the Crooked Road. Take a musical j ourney on Southwest Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail. If you like driving, enjoy pretty scenery and can’t get enough of old-time music, The Crooked Road is a path worth considering. Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, a state-designated route, is [...]
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Franklin County Moonshine Capital of the World
Posted on March 14, 2008 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Institute, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Ferrum College, Franklin County VA, Moonshine Capital, Rocky Mount VirginiaWhy is our Franklin County Known as the Moonshine Capital? Is it the rebellious nature of the native Franklin County Virginian, or plain ol’ dislike for hall monitors! I will let the experts in the field explain, this is from an article posted in the Franklin News Post. I do not see a credit on [...]
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