Music & Arts

Last year’s  Houston Caldwell Music Scholarship recipients will be showcased in a special performance during this year’s festival.
Last year’s recipients — Jared Boyd, Brandy Miller, Danielle Yother, Daniel Greeson and Catherine Conner — will perform during HoustonFest 2013, which is scheduled for May 3-4 at Felts Park in Galax.
HoustonFest is organized and presented by Galax Volunteer Fire Department and community volunteers.

FANCY GAP — Only one author with Carroll County ties has topped the Amazon sales charts for an action-adventure series.
David “Bubba” Gelly saw possibilities in the infamous fog of Fancy Gap — as a shroud of mystery for the setting in his fictional thriller.
To write "Fancy Gap," Gelly combined his experience as a corporate security supervisor with his love of writing and his interest in the local culture of the Blue Ridge Mountains to pen this tale of a loathsome crime.

The Crooked Road has ended its effort to achieve National Heritage Area status, after Tea Party groups alleged that the move would put local land use decisions under federal control. The trail that includes the Twin Counties would have been eligible for federal grants to promote mountain music.

By SHAINA STOCKTON, Staff
It’s not every month someone brings a giant fiddle to a Galax City Council meeting.
“If you think this is large, you should see a full-sized fiddle. This one is only a three-quarter [size]!” laughed Chris Shackelford of Chestnut Creek School of the Arts, as she carefully leaned the sleek instrument against a nearby column where the council members could get a full view.
Shackelford was there at the Jan. 28 meeting to help sing the praises of a musical-themed public art project.