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Hurry! Fortune-Williams tickets
Organizers with the Fortune-Williams Music Festival say tickets for reserve seating for Garrison Keillor and Rodney Crowell have sold out. Tickets went on sale just last week. Keillor, host of the NPR show, "A Prairie Home Companion," and Nashville recording artist Crowell will headline the final day of the three-day country and folk music festival. Reserve tickets for Friday and Saturday are nearly sold out. A limited number of general admission tickets are still available for Saturday and Sunday, said Larry Smith, one of the festival's organizers. Smith isn't too surprised at the early interest, given this year's performance lineup and Jimmy Fortune and Robin and Linda Williams's loyal fan base. People from across 21 states have bought tickets, Smith said. "It shows how well received (Fortune and the Williamses) are," he said. "Statler fans love coming back to see the Valley and see Jimmy." The film, "A Prairie Home Companion," a fictionalized account of Keillor's radio show, featured Robin and Linda Williams. Located at the Frontier Culture Museum, the festival's music will showcase the traditions of immigrants to the Shenandoah Valley. Performances at each of the museum's farm sites ‹ the English, the German, the Irish and the Appalachian ‹ are intended to reflect the music of the original settlers. The events will kick off Friday night with a Songwriter In The Round concert under the Cochran Pavilion at the museum. On Saturday the performances begin at noon at the pavilion and alternate between the pavilion and the surrounding four farm sites. Sunday's performances will again be under the pavilion and will begin in the early afternoon. Exact times of scheduled events will be posted once finalized.
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