The Blue Ridge Music Center presents The Kody Norris Show live in concert in our spacious outdoor amphitheater at the base of Fisher Peak on The Blue Ridge Parkway, near Galax, VA, Mount Airy, NC and Sparta, NC.
Deeply rooted in North American folk music, Kody Norris has crafted a performance that harkens back and tips a hat to several greats from the early days of bluegrass. The Kody Norris Show’s sound and energy channel the instrumental virtuosity of the legendary Bill Monroe, the showmanship of the “King of Bluegrass” Jimmy Martin, the vocal harmonies of the Stanley Brothers, and a bit of the over the top comedy entertainment of vaudeville performances. Top-notch picking is center stage, but humor and visual flash are part of the entertaining package. Always clad in colorful, tailored suits adorned with rhinestones, ties, classic hats, and ornate boots, the band earns its moniker as a “show.” Richard Bowman was recently awarded a 2023 North Carolina Heritage Award. This award is given to exemplary North Carolina traditional and folk artists for their contributions to the cultural life of their communities.
The foursome is fronted by Norris on guitar and his fiddling "sweetie," Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris, Josiah Tyree on banjo, and Cousin Charlie Lowman on the bass. The group’s album, When I Get the Money Made, was named 2017 Bluegrass Album of the Year by the National Traditional Country Music Association. The Kody Norris Show was honored with seven Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America nominations in 2018 and four nominations in 2022. In addition to winning Fiddler performer of the year, The Kody Norris Show was also named the 2022 Entertainer of the Year.
For the past three years, the Kody Norris Show has been the host of the Farm and Fun Time Noon Show, a weekly broadcast through The Birthplace of Country Music Museum and Radio Bristol.
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The Slate Mountain Ramblers is a family old-time band from Mt. Airy, North Carolina. For many years, Richard Bowman, his wife, Barbara, and their daughter Marsha, have spent weekends traveling all over Northwest North Carolina and Southwest Virginia playing music for dances, concerts, community events, and fiddlers’s conventions.