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The Blue Ridge Music Center is a music venue, museum, and visitor center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, Virginia.The center celebrates the living musical heritage of the surrounding mountains and interprets its significance within the larger landscape of American music and culture through concerts, exhibits, and programs.
WBRF-FM broadcasts the classic country music show, Blue Ridge Back Roads, live from the Rex Theater in Galax weekly. [9] It also broadcasts from the Old Fiddler's Convention every August in Felt's Park, also in Galax. The station is the flagship station of Wake Forest Demon Deacons football and men's basketball.
Stompin 76 Music Festival was known as "the Woodstock of Bluegrass". [1] The 3 day camp-out music festival took place from Friday through to Sunday, August 6, 7, and 8 in 1976, eight miles north of Galax, VA at the New River Jam Site, owned by the Lawson family.
Galax and the surrounding area has long been a rich part of American, and Virginian music, and is known for an intricate fiddling style and instrumental and vocal traditions; music collectors like Peter Seeger and Alan Lomax visited Galax and recorded the region's music. [10] Though the Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention is a major focal point for ...
WCGX (1360 AM) is a classic hits and oldies formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Galax, Virginia, serving Carroll and Grayson counties and Independent City of Galax in Virginia. [1] WCGX is owned and operated by Twin County Broadcasting Corporation. [5]
Betsy Rutherford (February 11, 1944 in Galax, Virginia – March 12, 1991 in Galax) [1] was a performer of traditional music from the Appalachian Mountains who was known for her powerful, authentic singing style. In 1970, she recorded an album, "Traditional Country Music," which was released by Biograph Records in 1971. [2]
The Old Grayson County Courthouse and Clerk's Office renovated circa 1834 still exists but is now located near what since 1953 is the independent city of Galax, Virginia. Even by 1890 the nearest railroad to Grayson county was nine miles from the county line, a Norfolk and Western Railway stop called "Rural Retreat."
Historical marker at Galax. The area that later became Galax was part of an 800-acre (320 ha) land grant given to James Buchanan in 1756 by the British Crown. The first plat map for Galax is dated December 1903; [5] The town founders selected the site for the city on a wide expanse of meadowland bisected by Chestnut Creek and sitting at an altitude of 2,500 feet (760 m) on a plateau. [6]