Galax

But in Southwest Virginia, our roster turnover is crazy year to year.

And what, uh, what Galax has one year is not gonna be what Galax has the next year.

It's gonna be completely different.

So, um, so you're gonna get, you're gonna get, um, a lot of variation year to year.

... into family music making.

Yeah, my older siblings had gone to Galax, um-

Mm

... for a long time, and they had-

Oh, I don't actually know.

Yeah.

Um, yeah, he got real inspired at Galax and was really excited about old time.

Hm.

And I talk about how I have friends from France and Japan and Australia and...

How special this music is because it's really unique, especially to exactly where we are here in the Galax, Virginia region.

It's known as the world's capital of mountain music.

So it's a great way to be part of something.

It moved away because that's an incredibly rural part of the state.

And the biggest town is Galax, which today only has about 2000 people.

And when the trail came through originally, it went like right through downtown.

Galax probably had a population of seven or eight hundred.

And the that's the biggest.

But, you know, 2000 people is the largest town ever.

Thank you for joining us for today's story.

Hello, my name is Austin Binkney, and I'm from Galax, Virginia.

I support Freedom Firm because I think all people are uniquely created, and it's wrong for them to be reduced to objects.

Today, I'm a voice for Lubna.

There was back, I don't know what year it was, maybe 2007 or 2008 or something like that, I had been dabbling with it, and I just couldn't figure it out.

And we were at Galax, and my neighbor camping was Jim Lloyd.

Jim Lloyd is from Rural Retreat, Virginia.

Great Clawhammer manager player, real unique.