Vandalia Gathering
2007 Schedule of Activities
All activities are FREE.
Schedule is subject to late changes
Friday May 25
Concert in the State Theater - 7:00pm
Vandalia Sampler: West Virginia's finest traditional musicians in concert.
Food Booths and Crafts Circle 10am - 6pm
Three Rivers Avian Center 11 - 5
Theater / Great Hall / Old-Time Stage / Circle Stage / Dance Stage / Jam Tent
1:00 – 1:30
Nat Reese
1:45 – 2:15
Frank Boles
2:30 – 3:00
Adam Booth (liars contest winner 2006)
3:30 – 5:00
Ethel Caffie Austin Gospel Workshop / 11-5pm
Appalachian
Heritage Dancing
Featuring Celtic and European ethnic dancing
Band: Poteen / 11am Contest
Registration
Noon - Senior Fiddle Contest
1:00 Concert:
Pam Lund
1:15 Awards: Senior Fiddle
1:30 Youth Fiddle contest
2:30 60 and Under Fiddle Contest
4:30 Concert:
Boyd Phillips
5:00 Awards: Youth Fiddle, 60 and Under Fiddle Contest / 11am Contest
Registration
Noon Bluegrass
Banjo Contest
1:30 Concert:
George Daugherty
2:00 Awards: Bluegrass Banjo contest
2:30 Mandolin
Contest
4:00 Concert:
Butch Osborne
4:30 Awards: Mandolin contest / Noon-5pm
Dancing
Callers: Mack Samples, Lou Maiuri, Steve Ballman
1:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Old-Time Square Dances
Bands: Mudhole Control and Born Old / 11am – noon Doug Van Gundy
12:15 – 1:15 Tim Bing
1:30 – 2:30 Tracy Schwarz
2:45 – 3:45 Ginny Hawker
Old-Time for Young'uns
Allegheny Echoes – Please Touch the Instruments - Jackson’s Mill - Art Activities
North Briefing Room
12:00 – Building a Cello With Harold
This feature-length video features Harold Hayslett, a retired pipe fitter and master builder of violins and cellos, and documents in fascinating detail, from start to finish, the entire process of his construction of a cello. (105 minutes)
6:30pm - Quilt Awards Ceremony in the State Theater
7:00pm - Concert in the State Theater and presentation of the Vandalia Award
Vandalia Gathering
Schedule is subject to late changes
Sunday May 27Food Booths and Crafts Circle open 10am-6pm
Three Rivers Avian Center noon - 5
Theater / Great Hall / Old-Time Stage / Circle Stage / Dance Stage / Jam tent
Noon: Liars Contest
Registration and
Storytelling
1 -3pm
Liars Contest
MC: Ken Sullivan
Judges: Bonnie Collins, Tom Drummond,
Colleen Anderson / Noon - 5:
Appalachian
Heritage Dancing
Featuring Celtic and European ethnic dancing
Band: Poteen / 11am Contest
Registration
Noon Senior Banjo Contest
1:00 Concert:
Katie Stricker
1:15 Awards
Senior Banjo Contest
1:30 – 2:15pm
Youth Lap Dulcimer Contest
2:15 Lap Dulcimer Contest
3:15 Concert:
Virgil Ross
3:30 Awards:
Youth Lap Dulcimer, Lap Dulcimer
3:45 Old-Time Banjo Contest
5:15 Concert:
Bob Webb, Heidi Muller
5:30 Awards
Old-Time Banjo / 11am Contest
Registration
Noon Youth Flat Pick Guitar Contest
1:00 Flat Pick Guitar Contest
3:00 Concert:
Brandon Bentley
3:15 Awards:
Youth Flat Pick Guitar, Flat Pick Guitar
3:30 Concert:
The Grass Stains
4:00 Concert:
Mountain Thyme
4:30 Concert
Presby Pickers / Noon – 5 Dancing
Callers: Mack Samples, Lou Maiuri, Taylor Runner
1:15 pm – 3:30 pm Old – Time Square Dances
Bands: Echoes Band and Rush Hour / noon – 1pm
Frank George and David O’Dell
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm Terry Vaughan
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Andrew Dunlap
3:45 pm – 4:45 John Blisard
Old-Time for Young'uns
Allegheny Echoes – Please Touch the Instruments - Jackson’s Mill - Art Activities
North Briefing Room
12:00 – Building a Cello With Harold
This feature-length video features Harold Hayslett, a retired pipe fitter and master builder of violins and cellos, and documents in fascinating detail, from start to finish, the entire process of his construction of a cello. (105 minutes)
6pm - Finale: Concert in the State Theater
Happy Valley Boys - Soup Kitchen - Angie Richardson
Vandalia Gathering
Schedule is subject to late changes
Friday Evening Concert - State Theater
Jim and Valerie Gabeheart
Alan Freeman (dulcimer contest winner 2006)
Johnny Staats and Robert Shafer
United Gospel Singers
John Morris
Tim Bing (Old-time 60 under banjo winner 2006)
Meredith Pheasant (fiddle 60 and under, youth fiddle winner 2006)
Robin Kessinger (flat pick guitar winner 2006)
Ginny Hawker/Tracy Schwarz
Black Mountain Blue Grass Boys
Saturday Evening Concert - State Theater
Patty Looman
Ethel Caffie Austin
Karl Smakula (Liars Youth winner)
Samples Brothers
Phyllis Marks
Frank George
Lester McCumbers
Bonnie Collins
Dwight Diller
Nat Reese
Jim Costa
Gandy Dancer
New for 2007
Three Rivers Avian Center will be on hand to discuss their birds
In the North Briefing Room:
The film Building a Cello with Harold
Check the schedule above for times