Regional Music Project
Concerts
Center for Public History
University of West Georgia

		Two performances of "Everybody's Tuned to the Radio: A Live Concert" were held on Friday, March 7th and Sunday, March 9th at the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center. Performers from the golden age of live radio in West Georgia included The Bluebonnet Boys, The Bluegrass Five, The Willing Workers, Alton Stitcher, Charles Cole and His Southern Kinfolks, and the Sewell Gospel Quartet. Historical recordings by these groups are featured on the CD "Everybody's Tuned to the Radio: Rural Music Traditions in West Georgia, 1947 - 1979" produced by former music curator Mick Buck as his graduate thesis project.

The Blue Bonnet Boys, a Bowdon group, reunited for the concert (above photo)
Bluegrass Five (below left); Charles Cole and His Southern Kinfolks (below right)

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Alton Stitcher and Friends, January 31, 2004

More photos will be coming soon

This program is supported in part by the Georgia Humanities Council and the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriation of the Georgia General Assembly. The Georgia Council for the Arts is a partner agency of the national Endowment for the Arts. Additional support includes conbrituions from the Warren P. and Ava F. Sewell Foundation and the generosity of the College of Arts and Sciences and the History Department at the University of West Georgia, Airshow Mastering, Sony Music, and individual donors.