Wintergreen / Nashville Story By Jennie T. Williams Ever wonder what the Blue Ridge Mountains sound like? Track 1, Beautiful Earth, on Seay’s newest record started here. The album, In the Garden, was inspired by the entire world, but it started at Wintergreen. “I’ve roamed the Parkways and overlooks since I was a kid,” said […]
Wintergreen Nelson County, VA The 10th annual Blue Ridge Mountain Music Festival kicks off this Saturday beginning at noon. It’s held each year around this time at Wintergreen Resort in the Wintergeen Performing Arts‘ tent at the resort. Blue Ridge Life Magazine Publisher, Tommy Stafford will once again be the emcee of the festival that […]
Arrington Nelson County, Virginia It’s a wrap! Lockn’ 2014 is in the history books until next summer. Our reporter extraordinaire, Marcie Gates did a superb job reporting and taking pictures from the festival. (click here to see all of the her reports from previous days) We wanted Marcie to experience the festival from more of […]
Arrington Nelson County, VA Much smoother. That’s how folks are describing Lockn’ 2014 over the first one back in 2013. Less traffic jams and smoother parking are just a few of the things our Marcie Gates has noticed while covering this year’s festival. Thunderstorms moved in Saturday night causing organizers to briefly suspend the music […]
We’ve been telling you about our Marcie Gates covering Lockn’ 2014. Friday she was in full swing for day 2 coverage. Read on! Post by Blue Ridge Life Magazine.
Arrington Nelson County, VA Lockn’ 2014 is underway and our very own Marcie Gates is there to capture it all. She’ll be sending us updates along the way. Below from our Facebook page is her first from Thursday afternoon before everything started. Enjoy and go Marcie! Post by Blue Ridge Life Magazine. Click on our […]
Roseland Nelson County, VA Band members that make up Chamomile and Whiskey are all smiles about the upcoming Festy in just a few weeks on the grounds at Devils Backbone Brewing Company. The group has a long history deep rooted along the path they now travel. Nelson natives and life-long musicians, Koda Kerl (lead vocals […]
Nelson County, VA By BRL Writer: Marcie Gates Geographical happenstance can be credited for the members of Nelson County’s next up-and-coming hybrid band-baby coming together. “We all met because we were all living on Creekside Loop in Beech Grove. That’s where we all kinda got connected,” says singer and guitarist, Jacob Paul Allen (also a […]
Afton Nelson County, VA Another Starry Nights season at Veritas Vineyard & Winery is in the history books. This past Saturday night wrapped up the 2013 run with Jim Waive & The Young Divorcees kicking off the night before Love Canon finished of the night. We’ve been telling you about the highly popular event under […]
Arrington Nelson County, VA As we’ve been discussing for days, Lockn’ Festival was on the way for Nelson County. Thursday morning the traffic started pouring in for what will be a four day long music event ending on Sunday September 8th. Numerous reports of traffic congestion in some areas were already coming in Thursday morning, […]
