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Friends of Wilderness Road State Park invite you to participate in this year’s Heritage Festival activities on October 12, 13, and 14. You can experience the fall season along the Wilderness Road in the early years of our Nation’s history, discovering how settlers prepared for the coming winter. The historic Martin’s Station offers educational demonstrations for your enjoyment on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: soap making, authentic music, a Longhunter’s camp, Cherokee warrior’s camp, an 18th century market, and much more.

Be sure to checkout the Abingdon Crooked Road Music Festival! It starts on October 5th at Latture Field in Abingdon with a Youth Music Concert featuring Iron Mountain Ridgerunners, Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder and The Wright Kids. On October 6th, at Latture Field there will be music featuring Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice, Whitetop Mountain Band, Seamus Connolly and much more. It will also include many workshops such as a Dance workshop and Singing Styles.

The Floyd Country Store will host the Hotel Floyd Concert Series 2012, Music in the Mountains.
On Thursday evenings through October 25 from 6-8 pm, local and regional musicians and dancers will perform Old Time, Bluegrass, Blues, Americana music and more! Admission is free.

Saturday, September 1st, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, will present a concert by the Mountain Park Old Time Band. Admission to the concert is $8 for adults, children 6 to 11 $1, under age 6 free.

Saturday, August 25th, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, will present a concert of bluegrass music by the Dollar Brothers. Admission to the concert is $8 for adults, children 6 to 11 $1, under age 6 free.

Enjoy mid day music featuring Bill & Maggie Anderson. Admission is free.

Enjoy mid day music featuring Bobby Patterson & Willard Gayheart. Admission is free.

Enjoy Mid Day Music featuring the Buck Mountain Band. Admission is free.

Enjoy mid day music featuring The Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers. Admission is free and Smokehouse BBQ will be on site during Family Gospel Picnic.