Wednesday Mar 12 2008
   David Via at Backstreets - 7:00 - 10:00 pm - no cover charge - 1720 Battleground Ave, Greensboro, NC (336) 279-1113

Thur. 4/24/08
David Via & The Nomadz, O'Mainnins Pub State St., Bristol , Tn.-423--341-6354

Friday 4/25/08
David Via & The Nomadz, The DOWNHOME , Johnson City... The Little Chicago Blues Fest, 300 W Main St. Johnson City, TN 423-929-9822

Sat. 4/26/08
David Via & The Nomadz, 8:30 Ghostriders Motorcycle rally in Jonesborough Tn.

Friday, 6/13/08
Fairy Stone Concerts open with David Via, 7:30 pm, Patrick County, VA for more information: 276-694-7181

Friday, 7/4/08
Greensboro Bicentennial July 4th Festival - Grassroots Production - Downtown Greensboro. David Via on Libby Hill Wonder Stage 4 at 12:10. On Friendly Avenue between Elm and Greene. - for more information go to http://www.aroundthepiedmonttriad.com/gsofestivals/FunFourth/index-fun4.htm

Wednesday, 7/16/08
Center City Lunch in the Park - David Via will perform from 11:45 - 1:15 - Corner of Elm and Friendly, Downtown Greensboro, NC go to http://www.centercitypark.org for more information.

Friday, 8/1/08
David Via & Curtis Burch, The Soul Infusion, 628 East Main Street Sylva, NC, 828-586-1717

Saturday, 8/2/08
David Via & Curtis Burch, TaterFest, The Plum Hollow Farm, New Prospect, SC - for more information: 704-487-0114 or synergystudio212@yahoo.com - also check out www.moonshiners.com and www.tatertime.com

Sunday, 9/28/08
The "David Via Entourage" with John Flower, Billy Constable and Andy Eversole - Bluegrass at Blandwood - 2:00 - 5:00 - Blandwood Mansion, 447 W. Washington, Greensboro, NC 336-272-5003. http://www.blandwood.org/events.html

Saturday, October 4 - David Via & Woody Wood at the Garage. 10:00 p.m. 110 West 7th Street Winston-Salem NC - (336)777-1127
http://www.the-garage.ws/index.html

DAVID VIA

* 1^stplace, 2001 Merlefest Chris Austin Songwriter’s award with the song “Pawn Shops & Wedding Rings”;
* 2^nd place, 2000 Merlefest Chris Austin Songwriter’s award with the song “Virginia Ground”;
* 1^st place, 1997 Merlefest Chris Austin Songwriter’s award with the song “Never Hear the Call”;
* Wrote the hit, “Left this Country Boy (Sittin’ all Alone)”: chosen as one of the Decade’s Top 200 Bluegrass Songs; top ten of the IBMA bluegrass chart.

David Via’s songs come from being raised and living up in the Blue Ridge mountains of Patrick County, Virginia. Via (as most folks call him – that’s pronounced Vi and rhymes with sky) is a well-known figure in bluegrass/newgrass circles, and with twenty-some odd years of singing and songwriting, he’s made a lot of pickin’ buddies along the way. He started his performing career in church when he was three years old. He picked up on the guitar early and in college began playing the blues from coast to coast. Returning home after college, Via’s long-time friend Tommy Morse brought him back to an appreciation for the home tradition – the bluegrass and old time music Via had heard his uncles play when he was a boy. Via and Morse performed with The Bluegrass Buddies and played many well-known bluegrass festivals with members David Via, Alan Bibey (currently with BlueRidge), Tommy Morse (currently with Clearwater) and Ronnie Bowman (now a solo artist and with Lonesome River Band). It was then that Via started playing the mandolin and since then he has won numerous pickin’ championships. Over the years, Via has played in a lot of lineups and with a lot of great pickers: the newgrass In Sync– Jody King and James Donchez, Kim Gardiner, and Alan Purdue (now with New Vintage)– and with the Dan River Revue (Wyatt Rice, Tommy Morse, Tim Jefferson, Pete Ross) among others. He traveled to the west coast in 2000 for a six week tour with Larry Keel and Curtis Burch. He is now highlighting original material, teaming up with longtime friends who spin the Corn Tornado.

Corn Tornado features Via with Daniel Knicely (guitar), “Fiddly Dave” Van Deventer (fiddle), and John Flower (doghouse bass. Other frequent guests include Woody Wood (guitar), Tommy Morse (banjo), David Knicely (bass) and Curtis Burch (dobro). They all highly complement Via’s songs, singing and mandolin with pyrotechnic pickin’ and tight harmony vocals. Before coming together with longtime buddy David Via, Daniel and John were original members of Magraw Gap (with Larry Keel and Will Lee), band winners at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and one of the hottest bluegrass bands of the mid-1990s. Fiddly Dave also toured with the Gap and heads his own old-time funk and new acoustic group, Furnace Mountain. Woody Wood was an original member of The Blue Rags and frequently performs with his father, world-champion banjo-picker A.L. Wood.

All band members, including Via, perform frequently with friends The Larry Keel Experience, Acoustic Syndicate and Colorado’s polyethnic Cajun Slamgrassers Leftover Salmon. Via has, in just the past year, joined the stage with Vassar Clemmens, Ronnie Bowman, The Blue Dogs, Tony Rice, Curtis Burch, John Cowan, A.L. Wood and Rex McGee. Daniel and Fiddly Dave are featured on several recordings with Keller Williams ; Knicely is currently performing with such artists as Mark Schatzand Rooster Ruley and VanDeventer still heads Furnace Mountain.

Most important, David Via and Corn Tornado is a collection not just of stellar musicians, but of close friends – a feeling that really comes through on stage.