Sunday, July 28, 2019 @ 2:30 PM
Stonefield Cellars Winery8220 NC Highway 68 NorthStokesdale, NC
Featuring:
Paula Dellenback & Fox River
Paula Dellenback & Fox River was formed from a musically rich area near the state’s heritage music trail called “The Crooked Road”. With a style of their own, these members bring a mixture of original material, traditional and progressive Bluegrass music.
Paula Dellenback is an award winning singer and songwriter born in the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia. Her songwriting has a style of storytelling through song that brings visuals of the region’s history and intrigue of trials, family, love, and life. Her second original song “Jar Gap”, won WPAQ’s Ralph Epperson Award for excellence and has been the most popular so far. Paula began music later in life but took off at a fast pace singing lead, harmony and playing rhythm guitar and electric bass. She has played in numerous Gospel bands, solo shows, and manages the Paula Dellenback & Fox River Band. Paula and her band have appeared in numerous festivals and venues including “Song of the Mountains”, IBMA, Reeves Theater, Heartwood, Blackmon Amphitheater, and many more.
George Cutchins began his music career at a very young age by attending all the festivals and fiddlers conventions during the late 70s-80s with his mom and grandma who danced with local dance teams. He has played upright bass with many musicians throughout the years. George briefly played with, and was influenced by “Old Standby” Mr Jim Eanes around 1992-1993. He also played with many other local groups until 1996 when he joined Don Smith and the Foggy River Boys. George is still with Don and they have been going strong for 23 years. Other bands include Bluegrass hall of fame artist Bobby Atkins and The Countrymen, Out of Bounds, The Hardtimes Band, Paula Dellenback and Fox River from 2016-current, and The New High Country Boys from 2018 to current. He played mostly upright bass and occasionally rhythm guitar with all the bands. Several of George’s influences are Charlie Waller, Ed Farris, Bill Harrell, Roy McMillian, Monroe Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Ray Cline, Don Reno, Charlie Poole and many others. George is a member of multiple organizations of bluegrass music including the Sandy Ridge Music Association where Paula Dellanback is a board member and promoter, the North Carolina Bluegrass Music Association, High Lonesome Strings Bluegrass Association, and several luthier organizations. George Cutchins’ passion is to help promote the traditional style of music and to preserve the heritage of its meaning in song.
Charlie Milliron grew up in Franklin County, VA. No one in his family played music but he was drawn to the Bluegrass & Old-Time style of music that was played at the old Cannaday’s Store in Boones Mill, VA. Charlie started joining music jams at the age of 10 and by 14 was becoming a good rhythm player and taking lead breaks on the popular Bluegrass and fiddle tune instrumentals. From that time through high school he was influenced greatly by the band Lost & Found and Charlie Waller and Country Gentlemen. Uncle Josh Graves and Bashful Brother Oswald influenced Charlie’s Dobro playing, and to this day he still makes that old box cry and sing like they did! Charlie is now a prize winning Dobro player himself as well as a singer and songwriter. He is currently part of the Roger Handy and Friends band as well as Paula Dellenback & Fox River. One of Charlie’s greatest passions is to help young musicians develop their skills in Bluegrass/Old-Time music. He encourages them to mature into great players and to help preserve the tradition for future generations. Charlie’s favorite saying to these young musicians is “Don’t ever lose the melody!”
Thanks to Johnny Cox who is filling in on mandolin.
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