Bluegrass under the stars April 7 at Tri-County Tec

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Little Roy and Lizzy, recent inductees into America’s Old Time Country Music and Fiddlers Halls of Fame, will headline Tri-County Technical College’s Seventh Annual Bluegrass under the Stars concert.
The community is invited to attend Bluegrass under the Stars, a free concert and fireworks event for the family set for Saturday, April 7, from 6-9:30 p.m. in the amphitheater on the Pendleton Campus. It will be held rain or shine (rain location is College’s Student Center).
The concert will also feature Volume Five, Nitrograss and Last Road and will end with a fireworks extravaganza.  Concessions will be sold during the event.
Elizabeth Long, or Lizzy, plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, resonator banjo and sings.  She is a graduate of LCHS and Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia.  She has mastered the piano, the fiddle, the banjo, the resonator and bass banjos, the guitar, the autoharp, the bass fiddle, the mandolin, the trumpet, the trombone, the tuba and the drums. She paired up with Little Roy Lewis from the legendary Lewis Family in 2007.
During his career, Roy Lewis has received awards for his showmanship, as well as his musical ability. He and his famous family, known as “America’s First Family of Bluegrass Gospel Music,” were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) Hall of Honor. For more information, visit www.tctc.edu/bluegrass.