Aug. 27, 2010
FESTIVAL OF THE RIVERS 2010: Schedule of Music and Workshops
Special to Huntington/Hinton News Network
This year’s Festival of the Rivers will feature fourteen music acts from blues to bluegrass and traditional Appalachian songs to New Country favorites at the 2010 Labor Day Weekend music event. The free festival is located in Hinton WV at the confluence of the Greenbrier, Bluestone, and New rivers. As the "Gateway Community" for the New River Gorge National River, the community and festival are near both the National Park Service's New River Visitors Center on Interstate 64 and the breathtaking beauty of Sandstone Falls.
The music and workshop schedule for the festival is as follows:
Saturday Sept 4th
12:00-12:30 Tru Grass Xpress
12:45-1:30 Captain Insane-O
1:45-2:30 Jeff Furrow
2:45-4:15 Bluegills
4:30-5:30 Holy Cow
5:45-6:30 Alan Kinsler
6:45-7:30 Option22
8:00-10:00 Taylor Made
Workshop
6:00 – 6:45 Build & Play a One String Pork-N-Bean Guitar with Jeff Robbins
Cost $10.00 per person, Limit 25 people
Sunday Sept 5th
12:00-12:45 Alan Kinsler
1:00-1:45 Jan Marra
2:00-3:00 Jeff Robbins
3:15-4:15 Clinton Collins & Band
4:30-5:15 Mark Spangler
5:30-6:30 Doug & Shelly Harper
7:00-9:00 Bear Hill Bluegrass
Workshops
3:30 – 4:15 Learn to Play the Juice Harp with Jeff Robbins Cost $5.00 per person, Limit 25 people
5-5:45 Whistler Workshop with Jan Marra Limit 25 people
Beginning at 10 am and ending at 10 pm daily, the Saturday, September 4th, and Sunday, September 5th, event at Hinton’s City Sidetrack Park, "Festival of the Rivers 2010", remains FREE to the public. The festival features something for every member of the family and the Water Slide will be open each day from 11 am till 7 pm. Hinton’s “Jewel of the Hills” features traditional, regional, and international music performed by musicians from around the world.
The free festival is held by the Flannagan-Murrell House, Inc. (FMH), a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to using the arts for the benefit of the people of Hinton, Summers County, and West Virginia in general. FMH is maintained through community support and staffed by volunteers. For more information on the organization please contact publicity coordinator, Fred Long, at hinton1000@aol.com or visit the event website at www.cfm-fmh.org/festivalofthe rivers.html.
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FESTIVAL OF THE RIVERS 2010: Schedule of Music and Workshops
Special to Huntington/Hinton News Network
This year’s Festival of the Rivers will feature fourteen music acts from blues to bluegrass and traditional Appalachian songs to New Country favorites at the 2010 Labor Day Weekend music event. The free festival is located in Hinton WV at the confluence of the Greenbrier, Bluestone, and New rivers. As the "Gateway Community" for the New River Gorge National River, the community and festival are near both the National Park Service's New River Visitors Center on Interstate 64 and the breathtaking beauty of Sandstone Falls.
The music and workshop schedule for the festival is as follows:
Saturday Sept 4th
12:00-12:30 Tru Grass Xpress
12:45-1:30 Captain Insane-O
1:45-2:30 Jeff Furrow
2:45-4:15 Bluegills
4:30-5:30 Holy Cow
5:45-6:30 Alan Kinsler
6:45-7:30 Option22
8:00-10:00 Taylor Made
Workshop
6:00 – 6:45 Build & Play a One String Pork-N-Bean Guitar with Jeff Robbins
Cost $10.00 per person, Limit 25 people
Sunday Sept 5th
12:00-12:45 Alan Kinsler
1:00-1:45 Jan Marra
2:00-3:00 Jeff Robbins
3:15-4:15 Clinton Collins & Band
4:30-5:15 Mark Spangler
5:30-6:30 Doug & Shelly Harper
7:00-9:00 Bear Hill Bluegrass
Workshops
3:30 – 4:15 Learn to Play the Juice Harp with Jeff Robbins Cost $5.00 per person, Limit 25 people
5-5:45 Whistler Workshop with Jan Marra Limit 25 people
Beginning at 10 am and ending at 10 pm daily, the Saturday, September 4th, and Sunday, September 5th, event at Hinton’s City Sidetrack Park, "Festival of the Rivers 2010", remains FREE to the public. The festival features something for every member of the family and the Water Slide will be open each day from 11 am till 7 pm. Hinton’s “Jewel of the Hills” features traditional, regional, and international music performed by musicians from around the world.
The free festival is held by the Flannagan-Murrell House, Inc. (FMH), a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to using the arts for the benefit of the people of Hinton, Summers County, and West Virginia in general. FMH is maintained through community support and staffed by volunteers. For more information on the organization please contact publicity coordinator, Fred Long, at hinton1000@aol.com or visit the event website at www.cfm-fmh.org/festivalofthe rivers.html.
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