Downtown Bristol Events
September 14 | Blackbird Bakery
Willie and the Wildwood Flowers are a local dulcimer group.
September 15 | Paramount Center for the Arts
Are you the future Miss Food City? Make sure to send in your application byThursday September 15, 2016.Download the application herehttps://webassets.foodcity.com/uploads/imagelib/21-PeRoT.pdf
The winner will receive...
$1,000 cash from Food City
$1,200 scholarship from Rave
$500 Food City gift card from Johnson & Johnson
a large Food City gift basket
You will also represent Food City at the Food City 300 and the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2017!
September 15
Mark your calendars for September 15th at the listed participating Pizza Huts. On Thursday Sept, 15th, between 4PM to 7PM, Pizza Hut will donate 20% of your purchases to the Holly Help Spay Neuter Fund. Mention us when you pay. See the ad for specifics.
The Holly Help Spay-Neuter Fund is a Bristol VA based organization which focuses on spay and sterilization surgeries for dogs and cats. It was founded in the spring of 2001 and maintains a 501.c3 tax exempt status as a branch of United Humanitarian, A Corporation. We rely mainly on the money received from donations and recycling aluminum cans to fund our surgeries. We are all volunteers and Holly Help pays no salaries. To date we have over 27,227 spay/neuters completed!
Please contact Sue Williams, President of Holly Help Spay-Neuter Fund, 276-466-5375 with any questions or for additional information.
September 15 | Studio Brew
Join Studio Brew for a fun night of Salsa Dancing. Studio Brew's Craft Beer, Chef Ryan's Studio Salsa & Chips, plus Aulikki's Sangria Special will be available. Come dance Salsa, Bachata, Merengue and some Hip Hop. Beginner Salsa lesson kicks off the party from 7:00pm to 7:45pm.
$10.00 cover includes your dance lesson plus complementary chips & salsa. Come and enjoy the Dance Party at Studio Brew! Cheers!
September 15 | Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Radio Bristol Presents: Farm & Fun Time is kicking off the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival on Thursday, September 15th at 7:00 p.m. with Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley and Woody Pines at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Be part of the live studio audience for the program that got its roots in the 1940s through the 1950s from WCYB Radio’s Farm & Fun Time program. Can’t be part of the studio audience? Listen in Bristol to WBCM-LP at 100.1 FM and online through the station’s mobile app and this website.
September 16–18 | Downtown Bristol
The award-winning Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival celebrates 16 years September 16-18, 2016!
Bristol Rhythm is more than a festival. It's an infectious, three-day music experience bursting with creative passion, electricity, and soul. Every third weekend in September, State Street in Historic Downtown Bristol, VA/TN is amped to the beat of the Appalachia's past, present and future. Featuring an eclectic mix of folk-rock, alternative country, Americana, traditional bluegrass, country, and old-time music on more than 20 stages, Bristol Rhythm digs down deep into the roots of our region's sound and lifts its branches to new heights.
Visit bristolrhythm.com for a complete lineup and to purchase your tickets.
September 16 | Studio Brew
From the hills of Eastern Kentucky, Exit 23 was formed in the Summer of 2014 by core members Johnny “Pop” Day (Vocals/Guitar), Charlie Cable (Banjo/Mandolin/Guitar), and Scott Cable (Lead Guitar). Morphing each member’s musical influences and styles, a sound of their own was created as they began to arrange acoustic driven, country-tinged songs.
Exit 23 will play Studio Brew September 16th & 17th
September 17 | Downtown Bristol
SATURDAY,SEPTEMBER 17, 2016, 8AM
This year all racers will meet at Anderson Park at the intersection of Anderson and Martin Luther King Blvd. 5K starts at 8:00 a.m., 2 Mi Fun Walk starts at 8:05 a.m. Please note that registration fee does not include a complimentary single day pass to the festival.
Click to see5K course map
Race day registration is from 6:30am to 7:30am.
September 17 | Cumberland Square Park
It’s too hot to handle...the competition, that is!
The Bristol Rhythm Chili Cook-Off, sponsored byBristol Tennessee Virginia Association of RealtorsandKroger, is the tastiest competition in the Tri-Cities. First place participants take home $200, second place $150, and third place $100. There are also categories for People’s Choice, Wimpy Chili, and Showmanship. If you think you have the recipe to beat, this is the competition for you!
Click here to view the application.
September 17 | Birthplace of Country Music Museum
The 4th Annual Bristol Rhythm & Roots Youth Music Competition is coming up!
Registration 9:00 am to 9:30 am
Competition Begins at 10:00 am
Open to Ages 5-18
Categories: Banjo, Fiddle/Violin, Guitar, Mandolin, Uke and Band Competition
Registration is $10. Students can register in multiple categories.
For more details go to www.caposmusicstore.com/events
September 17 | Cumberland Square Park
Our free Children’s Day event at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion is a great day of family fun with live entertainment and lots of activities the kids will enjoy. Many local agencies provide resources to help us make the event extra memorable, and lots of volunteers help the day run smoothly.
Children’s Day will take place from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (3 Hours)
To help celebrate Bristol’s music heritage, the Birthplace of Country Music Museum will provide new hands-on activities for Children’s Day attendees.
Children’s Day will not provide inflatable bounce houses this year.
Special entertainment bySilly Busand theEmpty Bottle String Band
Cumberland Square Park at The War Memorial
Corner of Lee & Cumberland streets, downtown Bristol, VA
September 17 | Studio Brew
The Steele Cookin’ Band is a tribute to all the great jam bands circa August 15, 1969 to the present. If you would like to hear Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Tedeschi Trucks, Johnny Winter, The Black Keys, Janis Joplin, Grace Potter, ZZ Top (early years), The Alabama Shakes, Jimi Hendrix, Sheryl Crow, Eric Clapton, then you need to see the New Steele Cookin’ Band.
September 17 | Studio Brew
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra explodes onto stages with an indescribable sound that is as much felt as it is heard: “a Thelonius Monk-like attitude with a Mozart creativity” (Pan on the Net).
Weaving together collective and individual influences without compromise, they are as much themselves as they are a unit—a crucial trait of landmark instrumental ensembles. At center stage, steel pannist and founder Jonathan Scales’ compositional skill mixes with tasteful, avant-garde improvisations to form an unmistakably unique approach to an instrument often associated with cruise ships and tropical music. Driftwood Magazine says: “Scales is to steel pans ....what Béla Fleck is to the banjo—an über innovator.”
September 17 | Studio Brew
Lord Nelson is two brothers, one greasy trombone, backbone bass, pocket drums, dirtysouth guitar and a hell of a lot of fun.The band was formed in 2012 by brothers, Kai and Bram Crowe-Getty. With the addition of Henry Jones on trombone and Trevor Pietsch on bass, this collection of Virginia boys presents original roots rock compositions about the people and places they grew up around.Lord Nelson’s unique sound varies inrange from slow burning, harmony laced anthems to back beat pulsing floorstompers.
September 18 | Studio Brew
Wise Old River shares songs about the human condition, human experience, times of need, times of pain, times of being lost and times of being found, our searching, and finding hope, grace and truth as well as times of spiritual growth. They sing about it all. Their desire is for their music to be stripped down organic, earthy, wires, wood and vibrations from the soul.
September 18 | Studio Brew
About If Birds Could Fly
Three kids from the mountains of Southwest Virginia that love to make music.
September 18 | Studio Brew
Three wonderful musicians you won't want to miss!
September 18 | Bristol Brewery
Enjoy The Grand Shell Game at Bristol Brewery for a Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion after party!
About The Grand Shell Game
Carrboro, North Carolina band the grand shell game, was formed in 2014, bringing together an eclectic, rock-based blend with intriguing lyrics and strong musicianship. Band members include Dan Fields, Dylan Turner, Joe MacPhail, Rob DiMauro, Rob Davis, and e-s Guthrie.
September 30 | Paramount Center for the Arts
CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS! The Paramount Chamber Players and Colpi d’arco combine musical forces to present Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on September 30.
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, which do you like best of all?
Join The Paramount Chamber Players and Colpi d’arco in celebrating the seasons of the year as the ensemble presents Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
There is no doubt that Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is one of the most beloved works in all of music history largely as a result of the joy that permeates its every musical moment. To balance this 18th century warhorse, we will present the 20th century work sharing the same name, Piazzolla’s tango-infused Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires).
The Paramount Chamber Players welcomes the young artists of Colpi d’arco, a Tri-Cities based youth chamber ensemble, to the stage to share this exciting event.
Players appearing in this performance:
Craig Combs, piano;
George Figueroa, violin;
Catherine McGlasson, violin;
Luis Casal, viola;
Cherylonda Fitzgerald, cello;
Thomas Maternik-Piret, cello;
Vicki Fey, harpsichord.
Students are admitted free.
For the Paramount Center performance, purchase tickets online at ParamountBristol.org or at the box office for $15 plus fees.
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