Admission is free followed by a reception. The event takes place June 21-24 at Summersville Music Park. Ralph Stanley, Rarely Herd, J.D. Crowe and New South, Del McCoury, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Josh Graves and Kenny Baker, IIIrd Tyme Out, and the Reno Brothers . The movie, starring Willem Dafoe and Luo Yan , is a tale of yearning for freedom and forbidden love set in the last days of imperial China. Buck was born in West Virginia in 1892 to Presbyterian missionaries, but was taken to China as an infant, where she lived more than 40 years.
Organizers say they are trying to bring the film to West Virginia.
Escovado's recording career began in 1978 with the punk band the Nuns. But it was with Rank and File, which formed in 1981 with Escovado on guitar, that he first garnered serious attention. And that's when listeners first got a sense of Escovado's uncanny knack for synthesizing disparate, seemingly unreconcilable interests. Rank and File was short lived, however. Then, in 1983 Escovado formed the True Believers with his brother Javier, opening a now famous Austin, Texas show in 1983 for Los Lobos, with whom they subsequently toured.