HoustonFest 2013
Upcoming Fundraiser Concerts taking place at the Rex Theater:
- January 14, 2011-The Cana Ramblers $5 admission at the door
- February 18,2011-Houston Drive $5
- March 18, 2011-Loose Strings & Marshall Bros.& High Road $5
- April 2, 2011 3:00 p.m. $5-Banjo Extravaganza featuring Jason Burelson, Sammy Shelor, Terry Baucom, Joey Cox, Kyle Dean Smith and Stevie Barr. M.C. Cindy Baucom
Just added three more bands to the lineup today folks!
- Moore Brothers Band
- Jeannette & Johnny Williams
- Big Country Bluegrass
This bluegrass festival is really shaping up! If you have not already followed us on Facebook or Twitter, please do so. You can even follow us via RSS feeds if you keep up with blogs via a feed reader. And if you have a personal or business website and want to link to us (sure would help us in the search engines!) then please be sure to do so. Drop us a line if you do link if you would like us to consider a link exchange!
THANKS!
Mitone, Webmaster
The Chili Drive Thru Fundraiser was a great Success. Thanks to everyone who helped with the event and those who donated tasty chili. This was not only a great fundraiser but a wonderful way to publicize HoustonFest. The incredible support from GVFD played a huge role in the success. Thanks to all of the members and especially Sarah Hankley for sharing her expertise and being on site throughout the event- and of course use of the bay as our Drive-Thru was pretty Cool.. It worked out quite nicely. Special thanks to Tess & Kenneth for organizing the event …..Oh Just One Thing, we ran out of Chili….But that’s not a bad thing.
We’ll report from both recent fundraisers at our next meeting scheduled for December 2, at 7pm at the Fire House.
34 Bluegrass Bands in Line Up
Wow, we just added number 34 to the line up! If you were just thinking about attending HoustonFest, you may want to change that to a definite “I’m going!” I heard we’ll be adding another band to the line up later today….that’s alot of music. We welcome your thoughts, feedback, and follows. Be sure to keep up with us on facebook and twitter. Make a post to the site. If you have any trouble with any of it, email me at moi@mitone.com so I can fix it.
Also, if you have a personal website or business website, we welcome your link to us! Help our website increase its page rank with your linkbacks! Link to http://houstonfestgalax.com. Thanks!
Pin ItBy Brian Funk, Editor
Friday, November 5, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Had his life not been cut short by a motorcycle crash this spring, banjo prodigy Houston Caldwell would have turned 19 this week.
The soldier, musician, firefighter and community volunteer is missed, but his legacy of service and talent will live on.
His loss — and more importantly, his life — inspired a group of volunteers to create a new music festival in his memory. HoustonFest 2011 will benefit the organization he loved — the Galax Volunteer Fire Department — and various non-profit youth music programs.
Parents Tess and Kenneth Caldwell and friend Debbie Robinson are organizing the festival, set for May 6-7, 2011, in Galax’s Felts Park.
“These parents have suffered an incredible loss yet are still willing to continue giving to their community as they always taught Houston to do,” Robinson said. “My respect and admiration for the Caldwells grows more each day.”
In the past few months, HoustonFest has grown, and so have the number of people pitching in to help.
Read the rest of the story at The Galax Gazette
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