WOODBINE
is a taste of small town America at its best!
Woodbine, Georgia is a fairly small town, population 1,283.
You could probably spit from one end of it to the other. But
if you get lost, well, fer gosh sakes, stop and ask anybody in town
where to find the Woodbine Opry. There's also signs up on Highway 17 to
show you where to turn.
While you're cruising down Highway 17 be sure to keep an eye out for
the legendary Stardust Motel and the Junque Shop with the sign out
front that says, "We sell dead folk's stuff". The
little diner on Hwy. 17 across from the turn into the Courthouse has
some of the world's best biscuits and they serve homemade jelly in Ball
canning jars and the waitress will snap her chewing gum at you and call
you "honey".
Woodbine is a down-home place and we like it just like that,
yessiree.
About the name "Woodbine" WOODBINE is the common name of certain thicket creeper vines or
honeysuckle vines.
Honeysuckles
(genus Lonicera) are arching shrubs or twining vines, many with
sweetly-scented, bell-shaped flowers. There are over 180 species of
honeysuckle, the most common of which are Lonicera japonica
(Japanese honeysuckle, White honeysuckle, or Chinese honeysuckle) and Lonicera
sempervirens(Coral honeysuckle, Trumpet honeysuckle, or Woodbine
honeysuckle). (Information courtesy of Wikipedia,
the Internet encyclopedia.)
That little white woodbine flower is popular here in Georgia, creeping
up over fences and walls, so we used it in the design of our website. See the Woodbine
flower on the links names
and other website graphics.
Woodbine, Georgia is where
you’ll
find the WOODBINE OPRY-it’s an open mike jam
session with some of the best musicians in the Deep South! We’ve got
all the old-timey music you've been
hankering for! NEW PICS AND
NEWS for the Woodbine Opry! To see the latest news about
the
Woodbine Opry, visitwww.woodbineopry.wordpress.com
To see the latest pictures
for Friday and Saturday
nights, visit www.webshots.com
and search for
Woodbine Opry
October 2011 Update
PLEASE NOTE: The Opry is not
serving meals at this time--we will advise when meals resume.
New audience and
cute kid pictures have been added, a list of Memory bricks is now shown on the Cake Raffle Page,
and we've updated the musicians pages.
Opry
music nights on Friday and Saturday are
still going strong, so come on out and join us!
FRIDAYS -
Acoustic Bluegrass & Gospel
SATURDAYS-Amplified Country
Admission
to the music is free - donations cheerfully accepted. Music starts at 7:00 PM Cake Raffle/Intermission at 9:00 PM
We call it a night at 10 PM!
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The Woodbine Opry was recently
featured on the
Georgia Public Broadcasting Georgia
Traveler series!
Click the photo below to view the video-
video will open in a new window, close to return here.
WOODBINE OPRY VIDEO!
Click the picture above to view the YouTube video
produced
by Camden TV--gives all the information about the Woodbine Opry!
Be sure to view all the other videos about Woodbine Opry on YouTube!
If you play an instrument, come join in! If you
just sing, talk to us and
if we know the song, we'll play the instruments to accompany you!
Acoustic instruments are welcome on Friday
evenings--guitar, mandolin,
fiddle, dobro, upright bass, banjo, harmonica, accordion,
autoharp,
other acoustic instruments--if it doesn't need to be amplified, you're
welcome to bring it Fridays--we've even had bagpipes here
before!
Check in with Friday host Hoydt Drury to get in the
lineup.
Electric
instruments, keyboards/piano, pedal steel, amplifiers and
drums
are allowed on Saturday evenings
only. This night is not an open jam
session.
The music is provided by the Woodbine Opry Band and the Saturday night
host
is Bob Staats. If you are interested in performing, contact
Bob to check
on getting scheduled into the line-up. Only those musicians that are
invited
by the host will be allowed to sit in with the band.
You can contact Bob via e-mail at bob.staats@comcast.net
or by calling 912-264-8019
The Woodbine Opry provides
microphones and sound reinforcement
both nights for vocalists and lead performers.
The Woodbine Opry is a
community function and alcohol is not allowed on the premises.
Smoking is allowed outdoors near the front entrance and ash
cans are provided.
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