Musical Heritage Homecoming Tour,
​Saturday, August 31st, beginning Downtown with the mural unveiling at 11am. 

Visit the places where ballads were born, stories shared, and many of the Old Time standards were written. Find the homeplaces of the people who preserved, passed on, and carried forward the musical traditions that became the basis of modern Country music. Maps will be available to guide you through your visit to heritage sites throughout the county, each with live music.
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We are still finalizing plans for the other sites, but two stops on the tour will be the Tom Ashley homeplace where Kenny Price and Jerry Moses will perform Clarence "Tom" Ashley's traditional clawhammer banjo style right on his front porch and the Fred Price Homeplace with the Piney Woods Boys sharing tales and songs from the folk revival in honor of Doc Watson, Clint Howard and Fred Price.  An open jam will finish out the day. 

Bring a quilt or lawnchair and an instrument if you play. Enjoy a laid back evening of music and mountain air with friends and family.

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If you want to take the sounds of the Mountains home, a CD is available now at Johnson County Center for the Arts.

Long Journey Home CD

$15.00

Learn all about Johnson County's Musical Heritage and hear 20 songs from the Johnson County Repertoire, including selections from G.B. Grayson, Clarence "Tom" Ashley, Clint Howard and Fred Price as well as present day pickers.

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Long Journey Home T Shirt

$10.85

The 2018 Long Journey Home T Shirts feature the Theme "Black Smoke a Risin'".

Available online in Heather Sapphire (Blue)

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