Friday and Saturday, July 22-23, 2011
Hagan-Stone Park Campground 5920 Hagan-Stone Park Road Pleasant Garden NC 27313Sponsored by Hagan-Stone Park.
Please call Pammy at 336.674.1277 for camping reservations. A host will be at the partk collecting the camping fee at the park for campsites C1-C20 only. Look for a sign at the shelter for his campsite #. Bring your check or cash on Friday evening. Make checks payable to City of Greensboro. Camping fees are $16 for HLS only in area C1-C20 (sites around the shelter).
You will pay park personnel for these areas: Area B (woods) or C21& up $18 or $16 seniors, Area A $15 (tent sites, no water or electricity)
Friday: Jamming
Choose your pick – at the shelter or at campsites up to when the Park Manager says shut it down.
Saturday morning and afternoon: Jamming
Choose your pick – at the shelter or at campsites.
Saturday: Pot Luck at 5:30 PM
The club will provide plates and utensils; you provide a side dish or dessert and your drink. We will have ice cream for dessert!
Saturday: Southern Gentlemen at 6:30 PM
The Southern Gentlemen is a bluegrass & bluegrass gospel band based in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains of Virginia and the piedmont area of North Carolina. The band was founded in 2001 by Johnny Johnson and Gary Handy. Our music, we are proud to say, is up to date and down to earth with a drive and energy that keeps our audience amazed and enthused. We have been featured on Blue Highways TV on Reno’s Old Time Music Festival with an interview and performance at High Falls, NC Fiddlers convention in March of 2009. Also we have opened for several name acts in our area including Dr. Ralph Stanley in 2001
Johnny Johnson – founder bandleader, guitar, lead vocals – Collinsville, Virginia
Johnny or band name ” John ” has been performing bluegrass most of his life. A past master and trooper beginning his professional career as a youth playing mandolin with Smilin’ Jim Eanes & the Shenandoah Valley Boys, Johnny then becoming a founding member of the Classic Grass with Gordon Brown for ten years. John is a Songwriter & owns Woodchopper Music Publishing BMI. He plays guitar, mandolin, banjo, and bass.
Gary Handy – co-founder bandleader, mandolin, fiddle, harmony vocals – Reidsville, North Carolina
Gary is a true past master of bluegrass music. He grew up in a musical family. Taking to the stage at an early age he developed his own style on the mandolin. Performing in various regional groups over the years, Gary feels right at home going into his tenth year in the Southern Gentlemen.
Bobby Whitlock – lead, tenor, baritone vocals banjo, guitar – Fieldale, Virginia
Bobby is truly one of the smoothest, and cleanest five string banjo players anywhere. With a style of perfection all his own, his driving banjo is very distinctive to the Southern Gentlemen sound. As with the others, Bobby started at a young age performing and co-founded the Fork Mountain Grass in the late 1970′s playing the circuit. He also played banjo with the Churchmen gospel band. Bobby also pays three finger lead guitar made popular on quartets by the great Earl Scruggs. and is also a very gifted song writer.
Johnny Mullins – lead, tenor, baritone, bass vocals , upright bass – Collinsville, Virginia
Johnny originally born in the coalfields of Southwest Virginia in the town of Clintwood, he grew up in a musical family with his brothers. Johnny is one of the best bass players in the business, always right on the beat with perfect timing. A super singer and musician in his own right, we are very proud to call him a Southern Gentleman.
