This amazing partnership between Junior Appalachian Musicians, Tryon Fine Arts Center (PacJAM), Earl Scruggs Music Festival and Tryon International Equestrian Center is back for the second year of this new festival! Registration provides JAM Kids and parents with festival tickets, access to high-profile workshops, and an overall super dynamic regional JAM gathering. This event is also partially funded by the IBMA Foundation. Register online here. As part of this event, JAM is also hosting a...

Join us Saturday, May 13 to enjoy this youth event in Southwest Virginia hosted by The Crooked Road at the SWVA Cultural Center and Marketplace (formerly known as Heartwood). This event features workshops and competition for youth musicians.

by Anna Tokar Anna Tokar, from Tryon, NC, is 15 years old and has played fiddle in the PacJAM program since age 10.                       PacJAM students dance the Virginia Reel at the Flint Hill Stage at the first Earl Scruggs Festival Photo by Eli Johnson It was months ago when I was told that our band, the Clover Pickers - a house band of Tryon Fine Arts Center’s Pacolet Junior Appalachian Musicians - would be playing at the Earl...