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Mountains of Music: The Landscape

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As the name suggests, the Crooked Road’s Mountains of Music Homecoming is about music. But the nine-day festival—opening June 12-- staged in nineteen counties and four cities across Southwest Virginia is about much more. 

You’re here to take in the music, but this place is so, so interesting so scenic that that’s a huge part of the overall experience that that’s a huge part of the overall experience, way beyond just a concert or even the festival, a sense," says Jack Hinshelwood, executive director of theCrooked Road.

Tammy Hill, director of the Ralph Stanley Museum in Clintwood, seems to agree. "The beauty of Dickenson Countyand the beauty of Clintwood is we’re off the Interstate. You have to drive to get here. You have a beautiful drive of the hills and the mountains. That’s the beauty of getting here. What does it say in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” We’re two weeks from everywhere. We are two weeks from everywhere. But that’s the beauty of coming here. That’s why you want to come here, to see the hills that Dr. Ralph grew up in. To see the mountains he speaks of in his songs and that many bluegrass artists speak of in their songs. Why not come here and see that for yourself?"

Mountains of Music Homecomingfeatures thirty-four concerts. It also has farm tours, canorkling trips (that’s canoeing and snorkeling), a cheese festival, art shows, wine tastings, beer tastings, and an exhibit on the history of the banjo, among other events.

"There’s an opportunity there to really see a landscape and connect with the people that live there and have in habited it for many, many, many generations. I think that’s what we’re trying to give people access to with Mountains of Music Homecoming."

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