The 17th Annual Pickin' Party Old-Time Music Festival is this Saturday and Sunday at the Homeplace 1850's working farm and living history music in Land Between the Lakes. Lead Interpreter Cindy Earls talks with Tracy Ross on Sounds Good about the line-up, including The Wheelhouse Rousters and J.D. Wilkes and The Jamboree, open mics around the farm and more.
The music starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday and goes through 5:30. Music includes The Dixie Volunteers, a local string band; Mark Dvorak, a music educator and performer; The Wheelhouse Rousters, who play old-time river tunes compiled by Mary Wheeler and her work with transcribing the music of the river rousters; The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, an Appalachian string band; and Common Thread, an all-female group playing bluegrass music. On Sunday, J.D. Wilkes and the Jamboree will play tunes by Charlie Stamper.