Who are we?

Dry Ridge Productions is a nonprofit organization (501-C-3) made up of an eclectic brew of acoustic music fans working to promote the art of original acoustic music in the upstate of South Carolina. We have been presenting artists since October of 1997.
In our brief tenure we have branched out into several areas. Here are some of the pies in our oven, irons in our fire, feathers in our hat, notches in our belt... (you pick the metaphor that work best for you)

Underground Folk at the Fellowship is our original once a month series that has been moved from the Coffee Underground, after 6 years of beautiful music, now to be hosted at the Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship located at 1135 State Park Road in Greenville, SC.

AcousticSeen at the Coffee Underground is the expanded series that was formerly presented each week on Wednesdays. Now Wednesdays are our open mic night and on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays we are presenting the full spectrum of original and traditional acoustic music, the foundation of which will always be songwriters.

Whitman's Back Room is a wonderful 80 seat listening room in the back of Whitman's Ice Cream and Sub Shoppe at 127 North Main Street in Simpsonville SC. We have consolidated the songwriters series that we previously presented at Whitman's into the AcousticSeen series but will continue to present artists of various performing disciplines whenever possible.

Fall for Greenville in 2003 was our first opportunity to present an Acoustic Stage as a part of this long standing downtown Greenville SC celebration. We hope to participate again each year.

Underground Folk Radio -
This weekly, 2-hour radio show focuses on today's independent contemporary folk artists and informs the public of the area's live music happenings. We are temporarily off the air but hope to resume broadcasting one day. (click for our last seasons play lists.)

Reedy River Folk Festival -
We co-produced this festival with The Friends of the Reedy River. It was held on the Brashier campus of Greenville Technical College in the Spring of 2000. The festival included one-day classes designed to promote environmental awareness and a concert of nationally recognized performers. (click here to visit Reedy River Folk Festival web site)
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Dry Ridge Production's Eclectic Brew of Roadies:

Ray Guenthner dryridge@mindspring.com
Founder, AcousticSeen booking, financial matters, newsletter.

Chip Radford cjr1@mindspring.com
Underground Folk booking, promotion.

Leslie Berry LBerry@InfoAve.Net
Artistic consultant and songwriter

Heather Magruder 1heatherm@home.com
Underground Folk Radio host, grant writing.

James Harper jbharper@ncsu.edu
Webspinner of the Underground Folk web site

Caroline Harrington caroline@workhorsecreative.net
Web designer of the dryridge.org web site