Labor Day weekend 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of Carlton Haney’s first bluegrass festival in Fincastle, VA and the 46th anniversary of Carlton moving the bluegrass festival to Blue Grass Park in Camp Springs, NC.
You can watch once rare footage from Fincastle 1965 on YouTube
Read about the history of Blue Grass Park at Camp Springs and its future potential.
You can watch the movie “Bluegrass Country Soul” filmed at Camp Springs in 1971 also
We live 3.5 air miles from the Camp Springs Bluegrass site. We have volunteered at the Joe Val festival (IBMA 2006 Event Of The Year) for nearly 20 years. We are still quite active in planning for the Joe Val and some other events. We can post posters at the next Joe Val festival if you have any.
Thanks so much! We don’t have any posters now as we are not to that place yet. I grew up in Concord and provided the photo of Joe used for the very first Joe Val Festival
Some @%#$&@ apparently bought the rights to the Bluegrass: Country Soul video and took it off YouTube and now has it for sale on Amazon.com. What a shame.
That was the original filmmaker who is planning a new DVD release for the 50th anniversary