Fifth Annual Paw Paw Festival

Name: Fifth Annual Paw Paw Festival — JBR Vineyards
Start: 2024-09-28T12:00:00-0400
End: 2024-09-29T17:00:00-0400

Saturday, September 28, 2024 12:00 PM 12:00
Sunday, September 29, 2024 5:00 PM 17:00

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Learn about growing this fruit native to Appalachia.

Saturday, September 28: Noon-5, and
Sunday, September 29: Noon-5

Pawpaws are an integral part of Appalachian history. They are a native North American fruit. Native Americans not only ate the fruit; they made rope out of the bark. The Shawnee had a “paw paw month” on their calendar. George Washington’s favorite dessert was chilled pawpaw, and pawpaws are mentioned in Lewis and Clark’s log. Mary Draper Ingles was sustained by paw paws on her long trek home from captivity.

For various reasons, pawpaws have no commercial value, so people rarely see or hear about them. Few people know about this fruit and how easy it is to grow in their own yards.

Learn how to select, plant, and care for the paw paw. Go way down yonder to the pawpaw patch! Enjoy great bands and sip on local wine. Kids & dogs welcome.

Musicians:

Bobby Parker

Bobby Parker is a folk, soul, pop, and blues singer and 6- and 12-string guitarist with a broad spectrum of influences ranging from Leadbelly to Bob Dylan to Cat Stevens to Jason Isbell and Ben Harper, the Dead/Feat/Band catalog, both Elvises (Presley and Costello), Hank Williams (Sr.!), the Drive-By Truckers and Talking Heads.

He's traveled widely and studied at the feet of many musical masters, at clubs and concerts, on sunny back porch afternoons, moonlit riverbanks, late nights in dorm rooms and living rooms, and anywhere a coffee cup or a campfire can be found.

These days, he lives in Blacksburg and is a regular on the regional scene. He has performed at FloydFest, countless New River Valley festivals, venues, and beyond as a solo performer and with roots rock electric combo Attic Static and funky folk acoustic unit Hot Diggity Dog.

Listen to an original at Hobo Moon by Bobby Parker of Vinyl Tap (soundcloud.com) or visit https://www.facebook.com/bobby.parker.1656/posts/928344913911958.

See Bobby Parker at JBR Vineyard’s 5th Annual Pawpaw Festival on Sunday afternoon, September 29th!

The Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers

The Fisher Peak Timber Rattlers is an Old Time band that has been playing in the area for more than 15 years. The majority of their repertoire is tunes that have been shared in this section of the Blue Ridge for more than a century. In the Goodson community (where the Music Center is located) friends and neighbors would get together to ‘make music’ at someone’s home or at one of the country stores. Listeners can close their eyes and have the same aural experience that their ancestors would have had visiting here.

Stu Shenk leads the band. He first played the banjo in 1971 and began fiddle the next year, learning his first tunes from Blanton Owen of the Fuzzy Mountain String Band, Oscar Wright of Lerona, W.Va., and neighbors in Summers County, W.Va. He moved to Carroll County, Va., in 1978, and has been an active musician in the area’s old-time community ever since. He lives in the shadow of Fisher Peak, within 2 miles of the Music Center.

Band members include Stu Shenk, Dan and Dot Shikenjanski of Mount Airy, North Carolina, and Ed Dalton of Fancy Gap, Virginia.

Enjoy true Mountain Music at JBR Vineyard’s 5th Annual Paw Paw festival on Saturday, September 28th!