Music Maker Homecoming *SOLD OUT*

Break out your dancing shoes at the historic Old Murphey School! From 6 PM until the music stops, we’ll catch up with old and new friends to the sounds of the Kelley and the Cowboys and the Music Maker Blues Revue, featuring Albert White, Aretta Woodruff, Leonard Lowdown Brown and Jimbo Mathus.

Dinner and drinks included in your ticket price!

VIP Packages Available Now! Regular admission tickets are SOLD OUT.

About the artists

Music Maker Blues Revue featuring:

Leonard Lowdown Brown

Leonard “Lowdown” Brown is an electric guitar-slinging blues legend in the Houston music scene. His virtuosic fingerwork and formidable voice seem effortless, evidence of his raw talent and over four decades of dedication to his craft. Born in 1953 into a family with five brothers and four sisters, Leonard grew up with music all around him. Music was one way his family remained connected to their southern roots, and they shared this passion with their children.

Leonard and his siblings spent their formative years singing in traveling gospel choirs, which he credits as the foundation of his musical style. Around the age of six, Leonard’s father gave him his first guitar and he hasn’t stopped playing since.

Aretta Woodruff 

Raised in the dirt-road town of Wellington, Alabama, Aretta Woodruff found her voice in the Hopewell Baptist church choir at five years old and has not stopped singing since. A force to be reckoned with, she brings her indefatigable spirit and powerhouse vocals to every performance. Aretta’s talent and commitment to her art have propelled her into fame within the Birmingham Blues and R&B music scene.

Albert White 

Albert White, an Atlanta native, grew up playing behind his uncle, Piano Red, a legendary Rhythm & Blues powerhouse who had many hits including the song “Doctor Feelgood” famously covered by the Beatles. In Albert, the tradition of high energy, funky R&B lives on. Albert and his band The Rockers have played jukes, clubs, weddings and celebrations throughout the Southeast from the 1960s to the present. Along the way, they have shared the stage with every notable R&B star that has traveled the circuit including Rufus Thomas, Ray Charles, The Tams, Joe Tex and many more.

Jimbo Mathus

Jimbo Mathus is a Mississippi native, visual 8 musical artist, writer & producer with deep ties to the Delta.  The 55 year old Mathus has spent a life learning the musical lexicon of the Deep South. His father taught him the ropes of bluegrass, honky-tonk and gospel.  He absorbed the blues on visits to Clarksdale where his grandfather, Tony Malvezzi, ran the Conerly shoe store.​ Jimbo is also a GRAMMY-nominated musician and multidisciplinary artist.

Also Featuring:

Kelley and the Cowboys

Kelley has been steeped in the music of Appalachia for over twenty years, she is no stranger to the roots of country music. Kelley is an accomplished, award winning claw-hammer banjo player, a fiddler, guitar player, and bassist and stays busy as a full time member of the award winning Old-Time stringband, The Crooked Road Ramblers, Host of The Floyd Radio Show and her own variety show, The Blue Ridge Opry, and as an occasional vocalist for the NC Sacred Steel Legends, The Allen Boys. Kelley has helped pass these traditions on by teaching Old Time fiddle and flat-picking guitar in the Ashe County Junior Appalachian Musicians program since 2017. The Music Maker Foundation also honored Kelley with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023 for her contributions to roots music.