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Valley EarthFest Presents..
..a Song-writing contest to save the planet! Are you a Singer/Songwriter, have a great idea or something to say about our planet? Submit your song, have it judged by professional industry experts (one straight from Nashville!) and if it makes the cut, hear it live on The Valley Earth Fest "song to save the planet" compilation cd! The winner of this contest, in addition to being featured on the CD will also receive professional studio recording time! Think you have what it takes???? Let's hear it! Guidelines: Songs must be about our planet, and in the spirit of earth day. Submissions should be emailed to virginiabornjohnlee@gmail.com no later than March 1st, 2010 by 12pm. For questions or further details please contact John Lee atthe above email. This years theme song "Preserve the Planet" was written for VEF and recorded by John Lee. John will open our Green Stage Music Festival with his beautiful song and the song is on our compilation CD. Entries will be posted after March 18th, 2010
Valley Earthfest compilation CD available for a suggested donation of $10.00 Top
11:00 The Polka Dots 12:00 Paul Pfau with special guest band 3rd Gear Boogie 1:00 The Brouge Rougues 2:00 Special Duet Performance by Danny Knicley and Aimme Curl w/ special Performance By Good Foot Dance Studio 3:00 Craggy Island 4:00 Speakeasy Boys with special performance by Boomtown Hoops 5:00 Purgatory Mountain 6:00 The Woodshedders 7:00 Terry Oates and the Mud Cats 8:00 The Hot Club Of Millwood
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Terry Oates and The Mudcats Terry Oates and the Mudcats is an eight piece blues band based on traditional blues influences with a modern flair. We try to draw inspiration from the original greats such as BB King, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, and many others in our original material while trying to pay homage to these icons of the blues by playing some of their greatest performances in the way they were originally recorded. The concept of our original material has been inspired by discussions on the theory of the blues, concept of recording in the early days, instruments used, and the artist themselves! Terry Oates and the Mudcats have many different influences and backgrounds giving them a unique perspective to the music. When people talk about the blues they usually refer to the style they are most familiar with, but the blues mean different things to different people. After all there are many styles of the blues. There is Chicago blues, Texas blues, Delta blues, and many more! Terry Oates and the Mudcats combination of guitar, bass, drums, horns, harmonica, vocals, and backing vocals give them the ability to cover many styles of the blues. Terry Oates and the Mudcats are new to the scene as a group but their cumulative experience spans decades.
The Speakeasy Boys The Speakeasy Boys started out as a group of local musicians who simply like to get together and play music. Every Sunday, they would meet up and play bluegrass along the banks of the Potomac River near Packhorse Ford, located outside of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and at a nearby house dubbed "the Speakeasy" (hence the band's name). www.speakeasyboys.com
Woodshedders The Woodshedders explore the boundaries of traditional acoustic music, and bring forward an array of influences including Swing, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Rhythm & Blues, and especially the Hot Club Jazz of Django Reinhardt. A genuinely charming sound is rendered, and a host of creative songs are delivered forth featuring poetic lyrics, unique vocals and harmonies, and stellar musicianship. The repertoire completes by honoring and evoking the heroes of music past while defying age and genre. www.myspace.com/thewoodshedders
Brogue Rouges A perennial crowd favorite, THE BROGUE ROGUES are a high-energy, audience-involving band, performing traditional Celtic music with a Blue Ridge Mountain flavor that only those bold Berryville lads can provide. Keith Adam's strong guitar work forms the base for John Friant's fiddle and mandolin to weave between the percussive melodies of Jim Buckner's hammered dulcimer. Rich three-part vocal harmonies complete this trio's quality musical package, which is not just a performance, but an experience. www.broguerogues.com
The Danny Knicley Aimee Curl Duet Danny Knicely is a fourth generation Appalachian multi-instrumentalist from a Virginia family steeped in mountain music tradition. He has used his roots in old-time and bluegrass to explore many musical styles from Irish, jazz and Latin, to the various musical styles he encountered while performing and studying music in India, Nepal, Tibet, and China. He has co-conducted lectures on the similarities between Appalachian and Himalayan music at Columbia University, and The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and for Asia Network. http://www.myspace.com/dannyknicely
The Hot Club of Millwood Hot Club Millwood is Berryville’s own bodacious Swing Jazz band featuring the licks of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. It’s an incredible synergy of Gypsy Jazz. The band features John Friant on bass, Gerald Kinzie on guitar, Jim Leach on percussion, Gary McGraw on fiddle, and Chip Schutte on guitar. You’ll experience the history of the era while you enjoy the energetic show of musical interaction.
The Polka Dots A musical group based in tiny Morrisonville, Virginia. A sister-act featuring music all the way from old time to bluegrass to swing and blues. Tight harmonies and jaunty arrangements are our specialty! Personnel: Ais on accordion, fiddle, ukelele & vocals; Nora on mandolin, guitar, ukulele and vocals; Olivia on the bass violin and vocals. http://www.facebook.com
Craggy Island Craggy Island Band was formed in homage to the funniest TV show ever made -- Father Ted. When we heard them sing, “My Lovely Horse”, inspiration set in! Once on a trip to the West Coast of Ireland (to learn new tunes), the Band was run off by an irate farmer, when they made a pilgrimage to the “Parochial House” where Father Ted was filmed. Seriously, Craggy Island is made up of Paddy on guitar and bodran, Gail on guitar, bouzouki and mandolin, and Susan, who likes to fiddle around. The fourth member of the trio is a green lava lamp named Seamus (green for Ireland, lava lamp for the 60’s – which some of us are stuck in. We are influenced by (besides Father Ted), The Beatles (who isn’t?), The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan a/k/a Zimmerman, Kevin Burke, Kevin Burke, Kevin Burke (well, Susan anyway), Phillipe Varlet, Solas, Altan, Dervish, and Furnace Mountain, among others. They all like us too! /www.craggyislandband.com
Good Foot Dance Company www.myspace.com/goodfootdance
Purgatory Mountain James Leva carries an appreciation for a vibrant, living music tradition, which he learned from masters born around the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries, into the 21st. The attitudes and techniques he learned from great Appalachian musicians such as Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Doug Wallin, the Hammons Family and a host of others throughout Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, are part of James' life and music and are carried on in his fiddling, singing, guitar and banjo playing and his critically acclaimed songwriting. In Purgatory Mountain, James is joined by a band of startlingly talented young musicians whose skills, energy and love for the music and great traditional dancing light up the stage... www.jamesleva.com
3rd Gear Boogie with Special Guest Paul Pfau http://www.facebook.com/paulpfau

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