Event

The Porch

The Porch - Listening to America

Mon Feb 8 @ 7pm
GALAX COMES TO FIREHOUSE
Wayne Henderson, Stevie Barr, Willard Gayheart, Scott Freeman, and Dori Freeman

Sun Feb 14 @ 7pm
THE LOVERS
Eddie and Bonnie Bond

Mon Feb 15 @ 7pm
REAL ORIGINALS
Red and Allie Knierim, Ryan Phillips and Roy Myers

Mon Feb 22 @ 7pm
FROM SW VA , TO FAME AND BACK
Mac and Jenny Traynham and Larry Burnett

Some of the greatest musicians you've probably never heard of will be coming from their porches throughout Virginia to share their stories and music.

Join us as we explore this mystical musical incubator -- the American porch -- where American music was born, and where it lives again.

Whether affixed to the front of a country cabin or attached to an urban tenement, porches have witnessed -- and fostered -- the birth of a lot of great American music, and a lot of great American talents. Tapping into that proud tradition, and preserving it, filmmaker Christian D'Andrea and the Firehouse Theater will be re-creating an Appalachian porch onstage, where over the course of four nights they'll host Virginia's remarkable folk minstrels, balladeers, pickers, bards, and storytellers. Real artists, who still do much of their singing and playing on porches. And who will now grace ours.

Created and produced by Christian D'Andrea.