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Georgia Pick and Bow Band |
 The Georgia Pick and Bow Traditional Music Program, in cooperation with the Georgia Appalachian Studies Center at North Georgia College & State University, seeks to preserve the traditional “roots” music of North Georgia with a series of 10 lessons for participating students each semester at Lumpkin County Middle School. Each lesson series ends with a recital featuring the students and a brief performance by the Georgia Pick and Bow Band. In addition to appearing at the recital, two individual students from the band have appeared onstage at the Mountain Music and Medicine Show at the Historic Holly Theatre in Dahlonega.
To help gain financial support for the Pick and Bow program, the program’s steering committee is sponsoring a raffle for a Weber “Yellowstone” mandolin, which was handcrafted and signed by master luthier Bruce Weber and which has a list price of $4,400. With only 1,500 raffle tickets being made available for purchase in the drawing, the few that remain will be sold during the Bear on the Square Festival in the MainStage Tent in Hancock Park and at the Information Booth on the Historic Public Square. The drawing will take place on Sunday, April 19, just prior to the festival’s closing concert. Tickets are $5 each or five for $20, and the winner is not required to be present for the drawing. The Weber “Yellowstone” mandolin was provided by Thomas Scanlin, owner of Studio Jewelers in Dahlonega.
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Bear art used in logo provided by Bill Lawson, Dahlonega, GA.