On behalf of John Lawless and Herschel Sizemore, we would like to thank all the many people who have made this past few years of The Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend such a successful, enlightening and enjoyable experience. This includes our indispensable staff (Andy Friedman, Joyce Sizemore and Pam Webber), our many hard-working volunteers, our dedicated instructors and our generous sponsors.

In all things, there comes a time to say goodbye, and so it is with our Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend. We both find our time stretched thin, and are unwilling to continue with this event absent our full attention and concentration. It has not been an easy decision, but we feel that it would be unfair to hold the weekend with so little time to dedicate to making it beneficial for the registrants.

Ultimately, it has been the students who have attended that have had the biggest impact on RBW, and we thank you all most particularly for supporting this event over the years. Your suggestions and feedback helped us to shape and modify RBW from one year to the next, and it was seeing your exhausted but beaming faces as things came to a close each year that kept us going when the time commitment seemed too severe.

We regret any inconvenience that may be caused from this notice coming so late in the year, and hope that we can earn your confidence in the future with any instructional events that could be forthcoming.
Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend
P.O. Box 21061
Roanoke, VA 24018
540-776-6822
540-776-6827 (fax)
response@roanokebluegrass.com