The Little Roy & Lizzy Show

The Little Roy and Lizzy Show, an award-winning bluegrass band from Georgia, featuring Holger Olesen from “Sloughgrass”, will open the 2022-23 Backus Performing Arts Series at 7 p.m., Tuesday, August 9th, in the Backus Auditorium.
     Little Roy has won awards as an entertainer as well as for his banjo playing. Little Roy learned to play the banjo when he was only six years old, and won a local talent contest for his playing when he was eight. USA Today called Little Roy 'a banjo master, truly a picker's picker'.
     Elizabeth Long, or Lizzy as her friends and fans know her, began her music accomplishment at an early age. While starting out on the piano, Lizzy soon took up the fiddle, guitar, autoharp, bass, banjo, and the mandolin, and has become an accomplished musician. At the 2015 GMA Dove awards she was awarded Best Bluegrass Song of the Year for a Duet with Rhonda Vincent called "God is There". She is one of the youngest fiddlers to be inducted into “America’s Old Time Fiddler’s Country Hall of Fame” in LeMars, IA. Her latest solo Album "Blueberry Pie" has ranked as high as #2 on Billboard's Bluegrass Charts. 
     Tickets for the performance will be on sale at City Drug, the Backus Office, and at the door. Admission for adults is $15, for children, $5, and for children who are under five admission is free.
     For more information, call 218-285-7225