Every summer The Blue Ridge Music Center hosts the Roots of American Music Concert Series. The concerts take place in their beautiful outdoor amphitheater at the base of Fisher Peak, from late May through September. This week the series features Joe Troop and Diego Sanchez and they'll be joined by The Wolfe Brothers String Band. 

The concert is on Saturday night, August 1st at 7pm in the outdoor amphitheater. The Blue Ridge Music Center is located at Mile Post 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near the Virginia - North Carolina state line, just about an hour from the Triad. Tickets are ten dollars. You can also catch Joe and Diego in concert on Friday night, July 31st at the Muddy Creek Music Hall in Bethania

Blue Ridge Music Center Program Director Richard Emmett sat down with Eddie Garcia to talk about the bands.

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