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Mid-day Mountain Music with the Buck Mountain Band
every Monday, May 25-Oct.26
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Buck Mountain Band The Grayson County-based Buck Mountain Band plays
old-time dance tunes with fiddle, banjo, guitar and bass from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. in the breezeway of the Blue Ridge Music Center. Admission is
free. Rocking chairs are provided. The Buck Mountain Band takes its name
from the mountain in Grayson County near the home of Bob and Sue Taylor,
the band's founders. In its original incarnation 40 or 50 years ago, the
Buck Mountain Band had as its core players Wade Ward and Charlie
Higgins. This new group formed in 1999 at the Galax Old Fiddlers
Convention. Core band members are Bob Taylor (fiddle), Sue Taylor
(guitar), Debbie Larson (bass), Larry McPeak (guitar), and Dan Peck
(banjo). Alternate banjo players are Amy Boucher, Roger Wilson, and Ray
Chatfield, who ably fill in when Dan is unable to make it down from
Charlottesville; Katherine Higgins and Karen Carr sometimes plays bass.
The band plays old-time mountain dance music and waltzes. Bob draws on a
wide variety of sources for his fiddle tunes. The band has two
recordings, Moon Behind the Hills (2007) and Chicken in the Snowbank
(2009), available from band members, CD Baby, Amazon.com and County
Sales.
 
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