Celebrate America’s Birthday and the Re-Birth of The Historic Masonic Theatre with Scott Miller & Friends: Robin & Linda Williams and Trent Wagler (of The Steel Wheels) In Concert Sat., July 1, 2017 in Clifton Forge, VA.
The Scott Miller & Friends holiday weekend event offers people a rare opportunity to see and hear three accomplished and acclaimed artists performing original music in-the-round in this intimate setting, allowing the audience to fully absorb the musicianship and stories behind and within the songs.
Garden and Gun Magazine wrote, “[Scott Miller] bestows dignity on dirt, elevates our pettiest concerns to poetry. A single listen reveals how Miller is exceptional, with a delivery so piercing and true you hardly notice how thoroughly you’ve been shot through. See him sing live once, and you’ll never feel lonely again.”
Scott Miller’s writing is informed and fueled by his connection to his family land in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. He truly is the sum of his ‘Southern place’: rural imagery, sin and salvation, defiant, rebellious, pathos and humor, as heard on his current full-length “Big Big World” album. He is working on new music, stepping up his touring with the Commonwealth’s Ladies Auxiliary (Rayna Gellert and Bryn K Davies) and finding a way to merge his life on the farm with his songwriting.
“History is my jam,” states Miller. “The story is already there and all you need to do is find some connection with it and try to connect that to the listener.”
Friend and “Americana songmaster” Trent Wagler is known for his unique vocal and lyrical stylings with his band The Steel Wheels (also responsible for the Red Wing Roots Music Festival in Mount Solon, VA). Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine declared Trent as, “Shenandoah Valley’s newest, and brightest, songwriting force.”
For more than four decades, Robin and Linda Williams have performed their robust blend of bluegrass, folk, old-time and acoustic country music across the United States as well as on The Grand Ole Opry, Austin City Limits and Mountain Stage in addition to frequent appearances on Prairie Home Companion. Their original songs have been covered and recorded by some of the greats of country music, including Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, George Hamilton IV, Tim & Mollie O’Brien, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kathy Mattea and The Seldom Scene.