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Polio Drive Sponsors
Mac Wiseman Show
- Mac Wiseman will appear Thursday night, January 14 in the Sperryville Elementary School auditorium, - in a program sponsored by the Polio Drive in Rappahannock County.
The sovereign State of Virginia which yields to none in the Union as • a stronghold of' mountain-bred folk music, has come up with a new musical champion, Mac Wiseman, from the foot of White Top Mountain, who holds forth on the Old Dominion Barn Dance.
Oddly, though Virginia's folk music has been well explored by researchers, it has developed relatively few widely known singers in the popular hilbilly idiom. But big, young Mac Wiseman, who's toted a git-box since he was a boy, is putting his home state on the country-style music map.
Mac Wiseman was bom and raised on a farm eight miles from Waynes- 5 boro, and he grew up with the oldold songs he learned on the farm, in - church and from itinernt gospel— singers. '
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