On January 28, 2023, the Winter Bluegrass Jubilee Celebration at Pickens High School will feature over 5 hours of performances, jam rooms, and workshops with music and Appalachian heritage themes. Doors open at 12:30 pm with performances starting at 1 and lasting until 6:30 pm.
This year’s performers include Shawn Lane and Sons (3-3:30 guitar workshop with Shawn Lane, 5-6:15 pm main stage performance, 6:15-6:30 pm main stage finale), Carley Arrowood (3-3:30 pm fiddle workshop, 4-4:45 pm main stage performance), The Foreign Landers (3-3:45 pm main stage performance, 4-4:30 pm mandolin workshop with David Benedict), The Wilder Flower (1-1:45 pm main stage, 2:45-3 pm side stage), the Sweet Potato Pie Kids (2-2:45 pm main stage, 3:45-4 pm side stage) and the Young Appalachian Musicians (6:15-6:30 pm main stage finale).
There will be a jamming room all day long, where our performing musicians will be dropping in and picking along with our audience. There will also be three workshops throughout the day offered by our performing musicians. Shawn Lane will offer a guitar workshop from 3 to 3:30. Carley Arrowood will offer a fiddle workshop at that same time. David Benedict, of The Foreign Landers, will offer a mandolin workshop from 4 to 4:30. All workshops are included with your entry fee.
This year we are inaugurating an Instrument-A-Thon. We will have a donation station where you can make a pledge to purchase an instrument for the program. You can also bring a playable instrument in exchange for your entry. We will accept donations of gently used guitars, mandolins, banjos, and fiddles.
To stay up to date on the Winter Bluegrass Jubilee happenings and updates, visit www.WinterBluegrassJubilee.com. Follow the Winter Bluegrass Jubilee on Facebook and Instagram. You can also stay up to date on all YAM happenings by visiting their website www.yampupstate.com and by following them on Facebook www.facebook.com/yamupstate and Instagram @young_appalachian_musicians. This is a NEW Instagram page, so please give it a follow to stay in the loop on the latest happenings!
Tickets are $15 in advance and can be purchased online here and at Cornerstone Christian Music and Supply located at 1895 Gentry Memorial HWY, Easley, SC 29640. Online sales and early bird pricing will close at 8 pm on January 27. Tickets at the door are $20 with all proceeds supporting the Young Appalachian Musicians afterschool music program, teaching students to play traditional music by ear on the banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and guitar.
Up to two family members accompanying a YAM student to the event can receive entry at 1/2 price at the door. They may also purchase one ticket online, but both family members must be arriving with their YAM student.
A special thanks to all the folks that are sponsoring the 2023 Winter Bluegrass Jubilee: Pickens County, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, Cornell Dubilier Electronics, South Arts, the School District of Pickens County, The Electric City Broadcasting Bluegrass Radio, WNCW, Memorial for Martin Acevedo, Hiott Printing, Cornerstone Christian & Music Supply, the UPS Store of Clemson, GBS Building Supply Six Mile, Riversong Grove, Pickens Railway Company, Bee Well Honey, Gary and Donna Nations, Allen and Linda Crenshaw, Terry Posey, Kristin Knight, Rensing Center, Sharon Fennell, Paula Rivers, Virginia Matthews, Elizabeth Rollins, Thomas Stokes, Brian Gulliford, Charles Phipps, Timothy Granger, and James Granger.
