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In the market for a new home? Don’t miss the Open House guide in the paper Saturday and Sunday.

An extra helping of Top Tickets includes Blue Highway, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Funk Punch, Sanctum Scully, The Elderly Brothers, Kings of Belmont, Song of the Mountains taping

Blue Highway |  File photo

Blue Highway performs on Friday at Radford University | File photo

THURSDAY

Just Duet
8:00pm – 11:00pm at Brambleton Deli & BBQ
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Jody Ensor at Blues BBQ

FRIDAY

Appalachian Events Program
With Blue Highway, with Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out
7:30 p.m. Bondurant Auditorium, Preston Hall, Radford University. Student/RUid $7; Public $14/Under 12 $7. Hurlburt Information Desk,  (540) 831-5420. bisher@radford.edukgpettit@radford.edu

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, with Funk Punch
9:30pm. Location: Martin’s Downtown

Oxjam Benefit with DJ Manndibles, at Gillie’s. 10 p.m.

Down Home Gospel, Roscoe P. & Coal Train, Tenbrooks
Floyd Country Store. 6:30 p.m. $5.

Eric Steele Project at Beyond the Green

The Woody Nelsons
Pop’s Ice Cream & Soda Bar
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Shorefire
Coffee Pot

Fuzzy Logic Band
Location: Bravos

The Elderly  Brothers at Billy’s Barn  9 PM. $5

SATURDAY

Song of the Mountains television recording
With Sierra Hull and Highway 111, Roni Stoneman and Mountain Country, Lou Reid and Carolina, the Cockman Family
Road trip alert: You’ve got young mandolin act Sierra Hull and Ernest “Pop” Stoneman children Roni and Donna Stoneman on this bill. Sounds good.
Details: 7 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, Marion. $25. 276-783-6093, songofthemountains.org, sierrahull.com

Kings of Belmont
Coffee Pot

Grass Monkey // The Bowl Dusters // Welcome to Hoonah at Martin’s Downtown

The Rosco
With Faraday
The Rosco brings pop/punk and power-pop. Faraday is a band of indie/alt-rockers.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Champs Sports Bar and Cafe, Blacksburg. $5. 951-2222, champssportsbar.com, myspace.com/theroscoband, faradaymusic.bandcamp.com

NRCC Fiddle, Banjo and Dance Club Jamboree
With Adam Larkey Band, Whitetop Mountain
Adam Larkey has been playing fiddle since he was 6. He’s a teenager now, and still working hard.
Details: 6 p.m. Edwards Hall, New River Community College, Dublin. Free (club encourages donations to performers). 674-3600 (ext. 4307), nr.edu/fiddle

Americana Afternoon with Andrea Marshall & Bernie Coveney, Americana Open Mic
Noon (open mic at 1:30 p.m.) Floyd Country Store. Free.

Sonny Skyyz and the Rainmakers at Blue 5. 9:30 p.m.

Buchanan RiverFest
With Southpaw
6:00pm. Buchanan Carnival Grounds
Tickets: $10 in advance; $15 at the gate
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STONE CANYON LIVE IN CONCERT!
5:00pm. Blue Ridge Vineyard
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Bebop Hoedown
The Brambleton Deli
9:00pm  no cover charge

Formula 2.0 Returns to Good Times Cafe
8:30pm. Location: Good Times Cafe 18768 Main St Buchanan, VA

Live at the Rives
Sanctum Sully CD release party
Asheville, N.C., band will hold a CD-release party  as part of the Rives’ series. This newgrass/rock band, which features Martinsville natives Jay Franck and Win Webster, has played at the theatre on two previous occasions and performed at all three Rooster Walks.
Sanctum Sully will also serve as the “festival hosts” for Rooster Walk 4 on May 25-27.
403-0872 rivestheater@gmail.com or visit  www.rivestheatre.wordpress.com or www.facebook.com/rivestheater.
facebook.com/events/161706890608230/. Tickets: $8 advance/$10 door.

MONDAY

Ross Flora hosts 202 Market’s open mic at 9:00 P.M. No cover. All players, singers and songwriters are welcomed.

WEDNESDAY

WROV Homegrown Live Series, with Jerry Wimmer
9 p.m. Growler’s Towers. Free.

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