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Shenandoah County Fair 2014 Woodstock, Virginia Todd Bynaker, Roger Bynaker, Scott Fultz, Joy Dix, Bruce Bynaker, Carroll Bynaker, Dale Bosserman

Thrashen Hollar Bluegrass Band originated from the family of the late Raymond Bynaker of "Raymond's Pickin' Parlor". This small store located along the road just west of Mount Jackson, Virginia, was the place to go if you wanted to hear down home traditional bluegrass. In a book called “Shenandoah Valley Folklife” by Scott Hamilton Suter, he describes folklife music in the Shenandoah Valley. In these places, musicians and nonmusicians gather together to learn and enjoy the music. Raymond Bynaker, sometimes found the crowds that gather at his place remarkable: "There are so many here playing, I have seen--and this is honestly the fact--I have seen as much as four mandolins players back here playing; four, five, six guitar players; three or four fiddle players; as many as three basses on many a time; and as much as three dobros at a time...That's really too much, you know, but they're all enjoying themselves. And what of it? They're doin it for fun--nobody gets paid anything for playing." The group now consists of three of Raymond's sons, Roger Bynaker on banjo, Carroll Bynaker on guitar, Bruce Bynaker on bass, and a grandson, Todd Bynaker on mandolin, plus Dale Bausserman on Dobro, and Scott Fultz on fiddle, and Joy Dix - Vocals.

Thrashen Hollar Bluegrass Band 2013 w/ Ira Carte
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