The show will go on. . .Historic Sandy Ridge bluegrass concert is Saturday

Submitted photo: Jay Adams of Pine Hall, the banjo player for Rich In Tradition and the organizer of this year’s Sandy Ridge Bluegrass Concert, holds two important pieces of history. On the left is the famous poster advertising the 1969 Flatt and Scruggs concert that never took place. To the right is this year’s advertisement.

(By Leslie Bray, The Stokes News) - It was looking like the end of the road for a Sandy Ridge tradition that started when the legendary bluegrass duo Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs came to town for a concert over 60 years ago.

That was until Jay Adams of Pine Hall got involved.

“There wasn’t gonna be one this year,” Adams says of the concert that has been held since 1948. “I felt like with all that history associated with that concert, it was worth a try to try and revive it.”