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A Young Guitar Player on Galax
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Lucas Nichols, a guitar player from West Virginia, plays his cover of Blackberry Blossom.
West Virginian Lucas Nichols was one of the thousands of musicians who attended the Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Va. this past August. The traditional music festival attracts people from all over the world for the better part of a week to pick, fiddle and dance. The festival was first put on in the 1930s by the local Moose Lodge in Galax.
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A Young Guitar Player on Galax
Clip: Season 2 Episode 16 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
West Virginian Lucas Nichols was one of the thousands of musicians who attended the Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Va. this past August. The traditional music festival attracts people from all over the world for the better part of a week to pick, fiddle and dance. The festival was first put on in the 1930s by the local Moose Lodge in Galax.
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♪ I've come in from Charleston, West Virginia.
♪ I wanted to come and jam and play with other people, learn some new stuff.
♪ I learned a lot.
Just depends on who you hang out with.
♪ You learn a lot from different people.
And there's a lot a lot of songs that people know.
♪
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