Travis Frye & Blue Mountain

Location: R.A. Fountain

Travis Frye and Blue Mountain plays Fountain as part of their 2026 Farewell Tour, as this year they end 18 years of picking, recording, & travel. They’re a multi-generational bluegrass band that honors Appalachian roots music while adding a modern twist. With members from Virginia and North Carolina, the band incorporates spirited fiddle and banjo tunes along with modern country, bluegrass, and gospel traditions, as well as original material. They’ve performed on historic radio and television shows such as “The Merry-Go-Round” in Mount Airy,  “The Blueridge Backroad” in Galax, Virginia, and multiple times on PBS’s Song of the Mountains in Marion, Virginia. They also played for the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway celebration at Appalachian State University.

The band has shared the stage with Big Country Bluegrass, the Steel Drivers, Lou Reid and Carolina, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Marty Raybon & Full Circle, Sammy Shelor, and Terry Baucom. Members include Mount Airy’s Travelin’ Travis Frye, on guitar; Hersie McMillian of Asbury on banjo (he’s also a charter member of the GoodFellers); Hen Doug Joyce of Stuart, VA, on bass; and Mount Airy’s Tim Frye, host of “Mountain Morning” and “Mountain Midday” on WPAQ radio, on mandolin. For tonight’s show, Johnny Ridge, from Mebane, is sitting in for Blue Mountain’s regular fiddler, Henry Mabe. Big John is familiar to RAF audiences for his many performances with the Malpass Brothers.

Links to purchase advance seats are below the photos.

 

Tags: bluegrass, bluegrass gospel, Concert, original, tradtional bluegrass