Pick & Bow News
DICKENSON COUNTY, VA
Clintwood, VA launches a Pick & Bow program!
Working in partnership with the Ralph Stanley Museum
and with funding from the VA Department of Housing and
Community Development, Pick & Bow launched new classes
in Clintwood, Virigina last spring. The classes include
banjo (clawhammer and bluegrass styles), guitar, fiddle,
mandolin and singing met weekly through the end of May.
We also partnered with Lonesome Pine Office on Youth
to hold a week long, intensive music camp for teens
at the Natural Tunnel State Park.
We are currently working with our partners in Dickenson
County to plan for the continuation of Pick & Bow
classes during the 2006-07 school year. Stay tuned for
more details to come soon!
Passing the Pick and Bow in Dickenson County is sponsored
by the Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, the Ralph
Stanley Museum in Clintwood, Virginia and by the Virginia
Department of Housing and Community Development (VDHCD),
a state agency that works to support communities to
create healthy, safe, and affordable places for Virginians
to call home.
For more information, contact Pam Morris at the Ralph
Stanley Museum at 276-926-8550, Suzanne Savell or Julie
Shepherd at the Appalshop at 606-633-0108.
LETCHER COUNTY, KY
Letcher County Pick & Bow students opened the Roadside
Theater's "Christmas in Appalachia"
•Cowan School
Cowan Pick & Bow is now under the management of
the WONDERFUL folks of the Cowan Community Center, with
the addition of our own Julie Shepherd as the Pick &
Bow director.
Music classes offered at the Cowan School are banjo,
guitar and fiddle. Teachers are Julie, Steve and Beverly.
Please contact Julie Shepherd at 606-633-3187 OR 606-633-0108
for more details about the Fall 2006 schedule!
• Whitesburg Middle and West
Whitesburg Elementary Schedule Coming Soon!
Upcoming Dances (All dances are at
the Cowan Community Center unless otherwise noted. Potluck
starts at 6pm, dancing at 7pm)
MORE INFO COMING SOON!
Upcoming Performances:
PIKE COUNTY, KY
Pike County students were a big hit when they opened
up Hillbilly Days in 2005! They also performed at Hillbilly
Days 2006.
