Join the Women’s Diversity Forum for a day celebrating and learning about Orange County Women in Appalachian and Old-Time Music, sharing their love of traditional American music. Featuring performances by Alex Caton and The Piney Woods Gals.

This event is FREE and open to all. No RSVP is necessary. Just bring your curiosity!

Women’s Diversity Forum was launched in 2012 by Rebecca Gilmore Coleman and Gail Starling Marshall. The WDF offers free programs, randomly scheduled, on intriguing topics with interesting people. If you would like to subscribe to the WDF mailing list please click here: WDF Email List

Alex Caton and The Piney Woods Gals shine their light on the women of Old-Time American music. Typically less well-known in the genre, women have been ballad singers, musicians, teachers, recording artists, and composers. Through stories and songs, we’ll learn about some of these influential women and our performers' experiences as women playing old-time music in Virginia.

You will also meet Paige Wright, apprenticing with Alex under the auspices of The Arts Center’s Music Mentorship Program.