Midday Mountain Music with Ashlee Watkins & Andrew Small
Saturday, August 30
12-3 p.m. | Covered Breezeway at Blue Ridge Music Center
Admission Free

Based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, Ashlee Watkins & Andrew Small perform music together in a variety of styles including Bluegrass, Country, Old Time, Folk, and Americana. Featuring their exquisite blend of vocal harmony, the duo’s versatile sound includes a range of acoustic instrumentation from fiddle and banjo tunes to mandolin and guitar numbers and more. Their music has been featured on radio, recordings, podcasts, film, and television. Hosts of the monthly Floyd Radio Show at the historic Floyd Country Store, the duo have performed near and far, capitivating audiences around the globe with their stirring harmonies and hard-hitting old-time sound.

Award-winning songwriters, Ashlee and Andrew provided the soundtrack and original theme music for the documentary Rock Castle Home, an award-winning documentary film telling the story of an isolated mountain community and its descendants, the history of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and it explores the importance of holding onto stories and a sense of place. They also provided the soundtrack and original theme music for Season 1 of the podcast The Green Tunnel, part of the a project centering on Appalachian Trail Histories telling the stories of the people who have made the trail what it is today, and exploring how those stories fit into the larger history of the place.

About Midday Mountain Music

Midday Mountain Music is a FREE informal music presentation featuring local and regional artists. Midday Music is held noon – 3 p.m. on the covered open-air breezeway, every day the Blue Ridge Music Center visitor center is open. Join us for a few minutes or the whole afternoon. No tickets are needed.