You may find us at the Porter Mountain Overlook, mile marker 90 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. You may find us on the porch at the Peaks of Otter Lodge near mile 85 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Welcome
Root 2 Music draws from Celtic music and Deep South Country Blues. Root 2 Music features fiddle, guitar, harmony vocals, percussion plus additional miscellaneous instruments. David Frank and Nancy Reid began Root 2 Music over 15 years ago. Nancy’s sister, Mary Beth Young Coffee, of the successful Celtic group “Beggar’s Circus”, sometimes plays in Root 2 Music. The group's many musical friends may also join in. Root 2 Music has won recognition at the Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop) and at the International Blues Challenge (Beale Street, Memphis) and is well known along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia for fun and music.
In mathematical terms, Root 2 cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers. Irrational? Yes! Nondeterministic? Perhaps, but always a pleasant surprise.
Buy "Appalachian Blues" CD Online
You can contribute $20.00 via https://www.paypal.me/root2music and let us know that you want a CD in the PayPal comments. We can mail you a CD within the USA. If you want us to mail you a CD outside of the…
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Support
Support Root 2 Music at https://www.paypal.me/root2music
Root 2 is irrational and cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers.
Face to Face Crowd Funding
Support Local Music. You can help Root 2 Music's projects by showing up and introducing yourself to the an important member of our enterprise. His name is Phillip, the bucket.
LA Times article still making us famous
See the LA Times travel article that features (uh, mentions) us in text and video.
We have been and will be playing alot during the week at Peaks of Otter Lodge, as well as our regular Saturday evening performance. Last…
Clifftop Neo-Trad Finals! Again in 2022! 
Clifftop WV: Lon Reid (bass) joined Nancy and David to form a Root2 Music trio for the annual Appalachian String Band Festival Neo-Traditional contest. The band made it to the finals . . .again!. The judges selected Root 2 Music…
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Root 2 Music (Nancy, David & Mary Beth)
3rd Street Coffee House, 305 Mountain Ave SW, Roanoke, VA 24016
Best listening room in Roanoke. Real acoustic music from Celtic to Blues. Fiddles & Guitar.