
LIVE MUSIC FRIDAYs
Mark
Campbell
Waynesboro's Native-son
Friday, September 9
Photo by John Herzog
Mark Campbell is a traditional musician who is dedicated to preserving
and passing down old Appalachian region fiddle and banjo styles. Since
his childhood in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Mark traveled around
the region, collecting and playing the old style of music. He learned
bowing and picking styles from some of the giants of last generation
of great musicians of North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
In 2008 Mark was named the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities'
Master fiddler. He was also the 2001 Champion Fiddler at the Appalachian
String Band Festival at Clifftop, West Virginia, has twice won the State
Fair of Virginia fiddle contest, and has won the West Virginia State
Folkfestival banjo and fiddle competitions.
Mark travels throughout the region, performs concerts/lectures, teaches
classes, plays for dances and produces solo and band recordings.
(Click on his name above to go to his website.)
Music begins at 6:15 p.m.
No cover charge.
Space limited.
Reservations advised.
Stone Soup Books and Café
908 W. Main St., Waynesboro
540-943-0084