As the Crooked Road Marching String Band headed toward newly inaugurated Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Saturday afternoon, a man called out to its members: “What are you going to play?”
Another spectator, a woman, replied in jest, “She’ll Be Comin’ ’Round the Mountain,” then began singing the chorus “in sort of a hillbilly accent,” said band member Tim Thornton of Shawsville.
He and the other couple dozen musicians in the Crooked Road troupe hoped to dispel that sort of stereotype, Thornton said…