Banjo Extravaganza with Charles Wood

Come join your friends at Hagood Mill on Saturday, July 18, as “Music in the Mountains 2015” continues with “Banjo Extravaganza,” featuring Charles Wood with Nitrograss. This sonically unique Asheville-based band creates a carefree and exciting atmosphere of pure acoustic pleasure. The percussion rhythms of two-time national banjo champion Charles Wood lay the foundation for the band’s unique style. Wood is a veteran showman with appearances on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor. Wood has toured in Austria and Germany with the Lonesome Road Band and taught at the esteemed Munich, Germany, Banjo Camp in 2009. Wood has also starred at many regional and national bluegrass festivals. Other members of Nitrograss include Caleb Hanks on mandolin, Micah Hanks on guitar, and Dakota “Smokey” Waddell on the stand-up base. This promises to be a very entertaining show from the fun and hilarity of the five-string banjo to moments of pure fire and sensitivity created on stage by this highly unique and energetic band.

Admission: free; Parking: $5