EVENTS and festivals
just as You Support Your local arts community,
we celebrate our community partners through events and festivals!
our founder Mary Hardy:
aka: Miss Tudala
Mary at her 85th birthday bash!
Mary Hardy aka “Miss Tudala” came to Scottsville in 1995 and started the Family Players Music School. In 2004, this transitioned into The Scottsville Center for Arts and Nature (SCAN) We celebrate Mary’s contribution to the arts and Scottsville.
On May 24, we celebrate Mary and our Community Friends!
Here is to another twenty years of SCAN! Let’s get together and imagine what they can be.
Eliza hardy jones
Music and quilts
Eliza is Mary’s grand daughter. They shared a love for music, cultural experiences, and most of all—thinking way outside the box! Eliza’s quilts are based on songs that she traveled to Russia and right here in Central Virginia to record and share with all of us through singing and quilts. She will be speaking at the Scottsville Library—where the local quilters meet—to share her experiences, songs and quilts. She is also a member of the Hardy Family Band that will be at the theater, and expect to see her in the “Doo Dah” parade and perhaps doing a dance in “All Around the Kitchen.”
Eliza is well known in the Philadelphia music circles and has toured with Grace Porter, War on Drugs, and Iron and Wine.
Two Quilts—Two Songs
On the left:
”Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party”
Sung by Carol Phillips, Mineral
On the right:
”Bury Me Beneath the Willow”
Sung by Alex Caton, Gordonsville
Our friends
The Hardy Family Band
The Hardy Family Band History
by Mary Winchester Hardy Munroe
Grandmother McCulloch entered her four children into the “Bowe’s Amateur Hour” radio program, where they sang in perfect four-part harmony the song “My Name is Joshua Ebenezer Fry”, otherwise known as “Giddy Up Napoleon”. Thus began my mother Mary McCulloch Hardy’s long career of performing family instrumental and vocal music. (an excerpt see full piece in the festival booklet).
Kim and jimbo cary
The Carys were fortunate to have performed with and learned from Scottsville fiddler, Tommy Isenour. They will be performing Jimbo’s “Tommy’s Song” as a tribute to Tommy’s lifetime of playing music. Kim will be playing “Cherokee Lady” one of his favorites.
They will be bringing colorful quilts made by Ruth Graves (of Nelson) and will sing “The Great Grandma’s Song” in her honor. They will also be performing several of Jimbo’s original tunes.
Eliza Hardy Jones
