Jonesborough’s Yarn Exchange to Hold Special Memorial Day Performance May 28

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. – This Memorial Day, May 28, the Jonesborough Yarn Exchange Radio Show will perform stories that honor the men and women who served and died in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Stories will also be shared from their family members and those with whom they served. 

Joining the cast this month will be fan-favorites Freddie Vanderford and Brandon Turner from Buffalo, South Carolina, bringing their famous Piedmont Blues. Vanderford, who was inducted in the South Carolina Folk Life Hall of Fame for his contribution to Piedmont Blues Harmonica, has become a frequent music guest of the Yarn Exchange Radio Show, electrifying audiences with his unique talent he learned as an apprentice with Blues harpist Peg-Leg Sam Jackson.

Tickets for this event are $5 and on sale now at the Historic Visitors Center by calling 423-753-1010. Tickets are also available online at www.Jonesborough.com/tickets.

This production is sponsored by Ballad Health and the Tennessee Arts Commission through Jonesborough’s Mary B. Martin Program for the Arts at the McKinney Center.

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