Members of the Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys, from Mill Point, playing on stage at the Pocahontas County Mountain Music and Bluegrass Festival in Huntersville, W.Va. July 28, 1978. Pictured left to right: Bruce Johnson on fiddle; Richard Hefner on banjo; Harley Carpenter on guitar; Dave Sizemore on bass; Unknown on mandolin. The festival was filmed in 1978 by WMUL-TV as the final segment of the West Virginia Public Television 13-part Series “Sugar in the Gourd.” (Huntersville Music Festival Collection: Photo by Larry Hall, Courtesy of Gina Shrader; ID: PHP004008)
The Huntersville Music Festival Collection is available in the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library at http://pocahontaspreservation.org/omeka/
Many of the photographs in this collection were taken by WMUL producer Larry Hall. Preserving Pocahontas welcomes photographs to this collection and help with identification. Email us at info@pocahontaspreservation.org
If you have photographs or documents to be scanned for the county Historical Archive contact Preservation Officer B. J. Gudmundsson at 304-799-3989 or email info@pocahontaspreservation.org Prints of photographs are available.
