Tourism Tuesday: Katie Long with Luray-Page Chamber of Commerce & JD Cave from Caverns Shriners Club talk about Bluegrass in the Blue Ridge Festival

2 August 2016

We were joined at Bowling Green Country Club for our LIVE broadcast of Tourism Tuesday by co-host, Katie Long from the Luray-Page Chamber of Commerce and her guest, JD Cave with the Caverns Shriners Club. We talked about their upcoming bluegrass festival being held August 4-6 in Luray, Virginia. Bluegrass in the Blue Ridge is in it’s 12th year and will feature over a dozen bluegrass bands, great food plus, 100% of the proceeds go to benefit the Shriner’s Hospitals for Children.

For more details, visit their website: http://www.bluegrassinluray.com/

Their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/luraybluegrass

You can click here: BluegrassFestivalLurayFlyer2016 to download their flyer.

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