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Crooked Pine Live on This Old Porch 7/30/17 at 4:00pm

Crooked Pine, L-R is Marion Boatwright on fiddle, Troy Harrison on banjo, Craig Bannerman on upright bass.
Crooked Pine, L-R is Marion Boatwright on fiddle, Troy Harrison on banjo, Craig Bannerman on upright bass.

Crooked Pine is a well known old-time band based in WNC who play traditional and original music. They will be on "This Old Porch" to perform and to talk about the nation's oldest folk festival coming up soon.  Founded by Baucom Lamar Lunsford in 1927, the 90th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival takes place at AB TECH August 3, 4, and 5, 2017. 

Marion Boatwright plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, and sings. Troy Harrison adds vocals, banjo, guitar and mandolin to the Crooked Pine sound while Craig Bannerman sings and plays stand-up bass.  They are an active and evolving musical influence in the region.

Carol Rifkin is a longtime member of the mountain music community and is a nationally known, award winning musician, singer and dancer who has performed on TV, radio, recordings, at festivals, in the BBC documentary Down Home, Appalachia to Nashville (with fiddler Tommy Jarrell), the movie Songcatcher, documentaries like Rank Strangers, Why Old Time, public TV shows and more.