Friday Night LIVE!

Live music will be performed at the Taylor Pavilion in Old Town Winchester, VA (directly behind the Taylor Smokehouse) starting at 5:30.  The Alex Hilton Band, an upbeat country music and slow country ballads band from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia will be opening and headlining at 7:00 is the Thom Shepard Band.  Thom Shepherd is an Austin, Texas based touring artist.  He performs constantly with his band, as a solo acoustic performer, and as a duo with artist Coley McCabe. 

His latest song “Little Miss Everything,” from the Bandolier Records project “12 Pack,” is his 5th single as an artist in Texas.  Thom, along with his Radio Margaritaville hit “Always Saturday Night,” are featured in the upcoming documentary “Parrot Heads: The Movie”

He is the writer of five #1 singles -  “Redneck Yacht Club,” recorded by Craig Morgan, “Riding with Private Malone” recorded by David Ball, Kyle Park’s “The Night Is Young,” Josh Abbott and Pat Green’s single, “My Texas,” and Kevin Fowler’s “Beer Season.”

Thom wrote the title track of Tracy Lawrence’s Grammy nominated album “The Rock,” has a song on James King’s 2014 Grammy nominated album “Three Chords and the Truth,” and wrote the 2011 GMA Canada Song and Video of the year for High Valley’s recording of “A Father’s Love (The Only Way He Knew How).”

In total Thom has had over 10 singles and had almost 100 cuts by artists including Easton Corbin, Pam Tillis, John Anderson, Lorrie Morgan, Colt Ford, Bucky Covington, George Jones, Trailer Choir, Montgomery Gentry, Buddy Jewell, and Cledus T. Judd.

In addition to live music by The Alex Hilton Band and The Thom Shepard Band, there will be various street performers, acoustical performances, and more!  

Entertainment will start up around 5:30 pm and the bands will play from 5:30 pm until 10:30 pm.

Beverage sale proceeds from each Friday Night Live! event benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters of Winchester, Frederick and Clarke Counties.