The Central Shenandoah Valley region includes Augusta, Bath, Highland, Rockbridge and Rockingham counties and the areas east and west of the Massanutten Mountain range, Including Deerfield, Brocks Gap and Fort Valleys.
We are seeking anyone and everyone associated with Mountain Music to be included on our web site.
Band and Musicians listings are free as well as link to your web-site.
If you host or attend a jam-session in the area, please let us know so we can include the dates, times, and directions.
Music businesses and venues please contact us for listing here and in our 2010 Mountain Music Maker Trail Guide.
Adonis Music (Harrisonburg)
Apple Day - A Celebration of Appalachian Heritage (Millford)
Barren Ridge Vineyards (Fishersville)
Birthplace of Emory Stroop (Harrisonburg)
Birthplace of Mac Wiseman (Cremora)
Bluegrass in the Gypsy Hill Park (Staunton)
BRCC Fine Arts Center (Weyers Cave)
Buttermilk Spring Barn (Staunton)
Clarke’s Old-Time Jam (Lexington)
Clementines (Harrisonburg)
Contra Dance at Mary Baldwin College (Staunton)
Court Square Theater (Harrisonburg)
Cross Roads MennoniteHeritage Center (Harrisonburg)
Dayton Contra Dance (Dayton)
Earth & Tea (Harrisonburg)
Elkton Days (Elkton)
Fretwell Bass (Staunton)
Frontier Culture Museum (Staunton)
Glen Maury Park (Buena Vista)
Grand Caverns Bluegrass Festival (Grottoes)
Grand Caverns Bluegrass Jams (Grottoes)
Harrisonburg Farmer’s Market (Harrisonburg)
Highland Maple Sugar Festival (Monterey)
Home of the Statler Brothers (Staunton)
Hootieville Bluegrass Festival (Natural Bridge)
Jerry’s Bluegrass Corner (Weyers Cave)
JMU Jam (Harrisonburg)
John Starling’s Home (Lexington)
Joseph Funk House (Singers Glenn)
Little Gill Collective (Harrisonburg)
Marion’s Jam (Staunton)
Mennofolk (Harrisonburg)
Mockingbird (Staunton)
Oasis Gallery (Harrisonburg)
Old Time Music Jam from the Work Horse Café (Lexington)
Randy’s Music (Broadway)
Plains Museum (Timberville)
Rockingham/Harrisonburg Historical Society & Museum (Dayton)
- Rockingham County Population 74,394 Sq.Miles 851.15
- ? Bergton
- ? Bridgewater
- Bluegrass Saturday = 3rd Saturday of each month - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Spring Creek Town Hall ~ 7764 Thomas Spring Road, Bridgewater, VA 22812, (540) 828-3260
- Open Jam Session = 1st Friday of each month - 7:30pm - 11pm - Pickers & Listeners Welcom - All levels and ages
Spring Creek Town Hall ~ 7764 Thomas Spring Road, Bridgewater, VA 22812, (540) 828-3260
- Bluegrass Saturday = Mountain Hollow will be performing at Spring Creek Hall on February 20th @7:30 - 9:30 p.m.. Our doors open at 7p.m. with FREE admission and refreshments are available hand. We are a nonprofit and all proceeds go back into the restoration of our building which will be celebrating it's 100th year of use later this year. For further info.(540)828-3260.
- ? Broadway
- Cross Keys
- White Oak Lavender Farm (Cross Keys)
- The Shady Grove Music event is held at the Shady Grove /Cross Keys Community Center in Port Republic, Virginia, from 7-9pm on Wednesdays. This is a music Jam of Folk music, including Bluegrass, Old Time and Traditional Country music. It is open to beginner players as well as seasoned professionals. Listeners are also welcome. More info: http://shadygrove1.com/ Questions? Call (540)248.3386 or e-mail b24482@gmail.com
- ? Dayton
- Rockingham/Harrisonburg Historical Society & Museum
- Spring Creek Town Hall (Dayton)
- ? Elkton
- ? Fulks Run
- ? Grottoes
- Bluegrass Jam Every Thursday evening - 7-10pm at the Graphic's Union Hall located across from
Stellarone Bank, 106 Sixth Street
Grottoes, VA 24441
- Bluegrass Festival
- ? Harrisonburg
- Court Square Theater's Bluegrass Thursdays series on January and February with Darren Beachley & Legends of the Potomac on January 14, 2010 and The Black Lillies on February 4, 2010. Both concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. with doors opening at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available in advance by calling (540) 433-9189 x 2 or visiting www.courtsquaretheater.com . Advanced tickets are $15, $13 for seniors and students. All tickets at the door are $4 more.
- Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center (http://www.vbmhc.org/) The CrossRoads (Valley Brethren-Mennonite) Heritage Center features exhibits and a video on the settling of the Shenandoah Valley by the Brethren and Mennonites in pioneer days, Civil War times, and in early 1900 school and mission work in the mountains of western Virginia. Interpretative guides tell stories in the 1854 Burkholder-Myers House, the nearby Wash House, the Blacksmith Shop, and the 1904 Whitmer School/Cove church, all furnished with period furniture. Includes information about Joseph Funk's Printing and Shaped Note singing of the Shenandoah Valley.. Hours: 10-5 Wed.-Sat. Admission by donation. Location: 1921A Heritage Center Way (off Garbers Church Rd.)
- Jam JMU - Every Tuesday evening (Last Spring Jam = May 11, 2010) Memorial Hall (Old Harrisonburg High School) on Route 42 at Cantrell Ave. http://www.meandmartha.com for details.
- Clementines - Great food and hot-spot for Old-Time, bluegrass and Acoustic Roots Music- http://www.clementinecafe.com/
- Oasis Gallery
- Birthplace of Emory Stroop Fiddler/Banjoist Library of Congress
- WSVA TV/Radio Shenandoah Valley Jamboree
- ? Keezletown
- ? Massanutten
- ? McGaheysville
- ? Mount Crawford
- ? Mt. Crawford
- ? Penn Laird
- ? Port Republic
- ? Quicksburg
- ? Singers Glen
- Birthplace of American Gospel Music (Singers Glenn)
- Shape Note Singing Festival
- Joseph Funk & Sons Press, Founder of Shenandoah University
- ? Timberville
