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Date and Time: Saturday, December 12, 2026, at 7 p.m.
Tickets: Admission is $10. Youth ages 17 and younger are admitted free. Tickets may be purchased at the door on the day of the performance or in advance at the 4th Avenue Gallery in Marlinton, WV.
The Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys return to the Pocahontas County Opera House for a beloved December tradition and an evening of classic West Virginia bluegrass.
Led by Mill Point’s Richard Hefner, the Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys are widely recognized as one of West Virginia’s longest-running bluegrass bands. For many Opera House listeners, this concert is more than another performance in the season. It is part of the soundscape of Pocahontas County.
The band’s music carries the familiar architecture of traditional bluegrass: banjo drive, fiddle lift, mandolin chop, guitar rhythm, bass foundation and harmony singing that lands somewhere between joy and ache. Their long history gives each performance a special weight. This is music passed hand to hand, stage to stage, generation to generation.
It belongs to dance floors, festival grounds, radio programs, family gatherings and small-town theatres where the audience knows the difference between something performed and something lived.
Their December appearance at the Opera House is a chance to celebrate not only a band, but a tradition. Expect a warm evening of hard-driving bluegrass, local pride and the kind of musical continuity that does not need to shout to prove its importance. The banjo will handle that.
Series Support: The Pocahontas County Opera House Performance Series is presented with support from the West Virginia Division of Culture & History, the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, Pocahontas County Dramas, Fairs and Festivals and the Pocahontas County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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