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By Chris Aaland | KSUT Yonder Mountain String Band, Darrell Scott’s Electrifying Trio, Heartless Bastards and Dirtwire will headline the 26th annual Four Corners Folk Festival on Reservoir Hill in …

As summer comes to a conclusion, the town of Elkin celebrated with the sound of music. For 13 years, the Reevestock Music Festival has brought together the community in food,

Summer is officially here and the summer festival season is once again popping off.

Music fans, aspiring musicians and others can attend free workshops on the La Plata Electric Workshop Stage during the 26th annual Four Corners Folk Festival on Reservoir Hill in Pagosa Springs this weekend.

KSUT will stream the performances of Sarah Borges and Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters live from Reservoir Hill in Pagosa Springs this weekend at the 26th annual Four Corners Folk Festival during the Saturday Blend.

The Badly Bent will perform on the Dan Appenzeller Memorial Stage at 5:30 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday. Additionally, they will play the Bubbles & Bluegrass event at 10 a.m. Sunday in front of the Breckenridge beer tent.

Some hit songwriters’ work is better known than they are. That may be true for Darrell Scott, who has penned such hits as The Chicks’ “Long Time Gone,” Travis Tritt’s “It’s A Great Day To Be Alive,” Sara Evans’ “Born To Fly” and the oft-covered “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive.” That’s not to say he is anonymous, particularly in Southwest Virginia, where over the past dozen years or so he has performed at FloydFest, Jeff...

Interested in a finely crafted, six-string beauty? Want to help out a Floyd music school that teaches mountain music styles? Luthier Jackson Cunningham and Handmade Music School have teamed up for just those sorts of things. The nonprofit music school hopes to sell 800 tickets at $25 a pop to fund programming at the organization, which does traditional music and dance lessons, workshops and camps. Cunningham, an Oregon native, moved to Southwest Virginia to learn his craft from the likes of Aud...