Sunday, 4/21/24 6:00-8:00, 42361 Lucketts Road, Leesburg, VA
Danny Knicely & Aimee Curl will be available for accompaniment. Of course, there will be jamming in the classrooms!
The DC Bluegrass Union, in partnership with Lucketts Bluegrass Foundation, gladly host an Open Mic at the Lucketts Community Center. This listening room atmosphere creates a stellar opportunity for local bands, duos, or soloists to create premier video performances on the historical Lucketts stage. The artist can record their performance through Lucketts’ professional sound system while creating a video with the artist’s phone or their own videographer.
As an added bonus, the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys will be performing earlier that day at 2:30. Doors open at 1:30. Tickets are still available, but are selling fast. For tickets and more information visit https://luckettsbluegrass.org/event/po-ramblin-boys-2/
The next Old School Open mike is scheduled for September 15, 2024. Stay tuned for details.
The Hazel Dickens Songwriting Contest celebrates the life and muse of one of bluegrass music’s most beloved songwriters.
Early this year we posted an ETSU “Appalachian Places” article by Jack Tottle, (find it here:
https://www.appalachianplaces.org/post/the-1950s-appalachia-invades-the-nation-s-capital-peacefully),
in which he recalls 1950s bluegrass as it spread from rural areas to urban settings like DC. Now the magazine carries Jack’s latest article:
https://www.appalachianplaces.org/post/bill-monroe-s-bluegrass-black-and-white-music-intertwined
Jack shows how clearly and directly Bill Monroe was influenced by black origins in the blues alongside white origins from music of the British isles. Thanks again to Appalachian Places for permission to link the article here.
Formative musicians from our area include Jack Tottle, probably best known for the band Tasty Licks and for founding the ground-breaking bluegrass curriculum at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). From his home in Hawaii, Jack recently forwarded this reflection on early bluegrass, the DC area’s prominent place in it, and how the music’s roots in Appalachia kept pulling him south.
It is published by ETSU’s “Appalachian Places,” posted here by permission. We thank them.
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Every third Sunday of the month, DCBU now is hosting Open Mics at the Lucketts Community Center (aka, the Old Schoolhouse). At no charge, your band is welcome to come and sign up for time on the sound-equipped stage! Not a band? We’ve got you covered for accompaniment by some talented volunteers. Time slots start at 6 PM and we clear the stage at 8 PM; in between times, there’s been a lot of fun and great music. Thanks to Loudoun County Parks and Recreation for joining with us to keep raising the roof at Lucketts.
One important aspect of DCBU’s mission is to promote music education. We offer an instructor directory so students can locate teachers in their local area for in-person instruction. Additionally, since so many great musicians teach online classes, we’re now posting information for instructors wherever they are located. To sign-up as an instructor fill out the form by selecting the link below. Your submission will be reviewed and added to our directory within a few days.
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Morgan Chapel United Methodist Church, Woodbine MD
Morgan’s Coffeehouse
Featuring Americana Music in the Hall 3rd Fridays of Every Month
Doors open at 5:30 PM and music begins at 7 o’clock.
Food, snacks, desserts, coffee, tea and sodas will be on sale throughout the night.
Free admission. Donations encouraged. Family friendly. Come join us!
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Lucketts Community Center, Leesburg VA
Originally scheduled for February 17, the Po’ Ramblin” Boys have been rescheduled for a special Sunday matinee performance. They bring their authentic and passionate style of bluegrass to the old schoolhouse stage. Developing their tight sound as the house band at a Smoky Mountain distillery, the band went on to be IBMA’s Emerging Artist of 2018 and to a Grammy nomination for their 2020 record “Toil, Tears & Trouble.” Dressed to the nines, band members include founder CJ Lewandowski (mandolin), Jerome Brown (banjo), Josh Rinkel (guitar), and Jasper Lorentzen (bass). Barn burning fiddler and vocalist Laura Orshaw rounds out the group.
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Lucketts Community Center, Leesburg Virginia
When you see this band dressed in their custom-made embroidered and rhinestone-studded clothing, you know that they mean to entertain! No wonder The Kody Norris Show took home seven SPBGMA awards this year, including Entertainer of the Year. The band tips a hat to Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin, the Grand Ole Oprey, and a bit of vaudeville. You will get top notch picking and singing along with humor and flash. Kody Norris is joined by his wife and fiddler, Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris, Josiah Tyree on banjo, and Charlie Lowman on the bass. This show is family-friendly, fun, and good music!
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Carroll Arts Center, Westminster MD
Common Ground Downtown presents Tim O’Brien & Jan Fabricius. Multi-Grammy award winner Tim O’Brien and his wife Jan Fabricius have performed together nationally and internationally either as a duo or as part of the Tim O’Brien Band since 2015. Co-founder of Colorado’s Hot Rize, Tim’s songs have been covered by Kathy Mattea, Garth Brooks, and the Dixie Chicks, and his collaborators include Darrell Scott, Dirk Powell, Mark Knopfler, and Sturgill Simpson. Awarded Grammy’s in both the Folk and Bluegrass categories, Tim is a member of both the West Virginia and the Colorado Music Hall of Fame.
Tickets $25/$28 at https://carrollcountyartscouncil.org/event/tim-obrien-jan-fabricius/
Common Ground Downtown is a partnership between Common Ground on the Hill and the Carroll Arts Council.
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Morgan Chapel United Methodist Church, Woodbine MD
Morgan’s Coffeehouse
Featuring Americana Music in the Hall 3rd Fridays of Every Month
Doors open at 5:30 PM and music begins at 7 o’clock.
Food, snacks, desserts, coffee, tea and sodas will be on sale throughout the night.
Free admission. Donations encouraged. Family friendly. Come join us!
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