Fresh Humiliation for Abigail Spanberger As Fiddlers' Convention Boos Her Off the Stage

Red State ^ | August 09, 2026 | Teri Christoph

[Red Badger]

Whatever in the world possessed Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger's staff to think this was a good idea? For some inexplicable reason, they scheduled the Democrat to appear at a Saturday fiddlers convention in rural southwest Virginia.

Needless to say, this was not her crowd, and they let her know it.

The setting was Galax, Virginia, a small independent city in the Blue Ridge Highlands of Southwest Virginia, located very close to the North Carolina line. It's been called the “gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains," and its identity has deep ties to old-timey Appalachian bluegrass music.

Galax takes its role of preserving and showcasing the musical traditions of the area very seriously. Its rural residents also enjoy things like guns and not having congressional representation by the far-left Democrat radicals of Northern Virginia.

The event was the 90th annual Old Fiddlers' Convention, which bills itself as the "world's oldest and largest" event of its kind. It draws bluegrass and old-time musicians, families, campers, and music fans from across Virginia and around the country. It’s a very rural, rootsy crowd that gathers with their banjos, fiddles, and RVs. And guns. This is a crowd that likes their guns.

The governor was super pumped to be there, at least according to video she posted from her car as she made her way through Galax. (Virginia Dems love to post "here I am being chauffeured around in my fancy car – see, I'm just like you" videos for some reason; Sen. Mark Warner gives a daily masterclass in why you shouldn't hold the camera too close to your face.)

Anyway, here's a super-pumped Spanberger raving about her experience with their fiddler enthusiasts:

VIDEOS AT LINK..............

I’m in Galax to join the Old Fiddlers’ Convention for its 90th annual celebration. Great food, great music, and great community. pic.twitter.com/iAYph66eW4— Governor Abigail Spanberger (@GovernorVA) August 8, 2026

Here's what actually happened: When she arrived and took the stage to address the crowd, she was greeted with a chorus of boos and a flood of people turning their backs to her and making tracks in the opposite direction.

Governor Spanberger booed in Galax. Turns out when you break your campaign promise, attempt a Leftist power grab pushing an unconstitutional gerrymandering effort In order to silence rural Virginia voices, coupled with massive tax increases, it results in a frosty reception…. pic.twitter.com/oqOBR58SEF— Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) August 9, 2026

Governor Spanberger booed in Galax. Turns out when you break your campaign promise, attempt a Leftist power grab pushing an unconstitutional gerrymandering effort In order to silence rural Virginia voices, coupled with massive tax increases, it results in a frosty reception….

Absolutely brutal optics for a woman with presidential ambitions.

This was never going to go well for Spanberger, and it's a real head-scratcher as to why her staff booked her such an event. Maybe they have it out for her?

It's the latest in a long line of humiliations for Spanberger, who garnered the lowest early-term approval ratings of any Virginia governor in recent memory, got slapped down in her party's aggressive gerrymandering push (for which she put her smiling mug front and center), and watched her gun grab agenda get kneecapped by the courts before she could turn her party's anti-gun wish list loose on the rest of Virginia.

If the Democrat Party cares at all about rural voters, they might want to think twice about the possibility of Abigail Spanberger being a vice presidential contender for their '28 ticket. If this is how a so-called "moderate" Democrat is treated when she tries to mingle with rural Virginians, imagine how well that sales pitch is going to play in small towns and rural communities across the rest of America.

[Danie_2023]

“”Its rural residents also enjoy things like guns and not having congressional representation by the far-left Democrat radicals of Northern Virginia.””

“”This was never going to go well for Spanberger, and it’s a real head-scratcher as to why her staff booked her such an event. Maybe they have it out for her?””

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The first paragraph from the article explains clearly the “why” it’s not a head-scratcher that she got booed... since Spanberger is the very epitomy of a “”far-left Democrat radical””. The fact that she’s an ex-spook/gov goon also doesn’t play well in rural America.

And yeah, try that in a small town or even in most towns in Texas, Abigail. I dare ya.

[Danie_2023]

“”Leftists, and leftist women in particular, never, ever equate their ideology and subsequent policies with their lack of popularity and outright failure. Never.......””

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No, they blame it on mysogyny... or their skin color... or their sexual proclivities... or their religion... or a myriad of other excuses. They’re just dense that way.

[sopo]

I can’t help but thinking some of these liberal peopleare culturally Republican, probably not her, but are under the spell of lock step conformity to NPR, so propagandized they don’t know who they are. That must have been true of the “greatest generatiion” (CBS-ABC-NBC ed through that time) who bought so far into FDR/JFK myth that they returned Democrat House and Senate to power even in Republican presidential years, for decades. How can you explain the south for about half + of that time who kept Dems in charge? Suburban, educated people gave Republicans their bastion until Clinton and the nineties , I guess they got gulled partly on abortion, even while the south spun?

[TokarevM57]

...hmmmm..in the Commonwealth of Virginia a governor is
limited to one term only....too bad former Governor
Youngkin could not have run again as he probably would
have been reelected.....

[steve8714]

Can’t.

[frank ballenger]

Divided state.

Did she think all of her enemies would be civil in this war?
Only her side with all the attacks against pro-Americans?
Hope she pays the flunky who looks under her car with a mirror and starts her car enough. No retirement plan needed.

[brownsfan]

“in the Commonwealth of Virginia a governor is
limited to one term only”

Thank you for the correction.

[chajin]

I have been studying the connections between Scotch-Irish reels and Appalachian music, including the differences between VA, KY, and TN versions.

One of the many performers at Galax this weekend is one of the top buck-dancing fiddlers, Hillary Klug--who just finished, of all things, a successful European tour for eurotypes wanting to experience "real American" music.

Even from faraway TX, I wish I could have been there, to see her perform, to enjoy the differences among the regional versions of bluegrass, and to join the Spanberger booing.

[chopperk]

Don’t blame Abby, blame the dumb dem voters.

[chopperk]

Don’t blame Abby, blame the dumb dem voters.

[bantam]

This is the socialist/communist playbook!

[Albion Wilde]

Wow. That Georgia map looks like they took over Columbus, home of Ft. Benning or whatever Biden was calling it now. That’s shocking.

[Albion Wilde]

That blue spot in the lower west foot of the Appalachians is where Obama inserted a big bunch of muslim "refugees" decades ago around Roanoke. I think Washington and Lee University, which has been assailed by Wokeists, is the small blue dot just above that area also. The biggest blue dot in the upper center west is Charlottesville, home of University of Virginia -- again, Woke hotbed and lotsa liberals.

On the top east side, the counties all around DC are full of wealthy government teatsuckers and lots more of Obama's muslims and Biden's south border and third world "refugees."

On the lower east corner, Norfolk and lots of permanent military. I can't figure out why that was blue, unless it was a place for lots of ballot harvesting or ballot cheating operations.

[Missouri gal]

Thanks for that explanation. I mainly think of blue areas as computer-generated votes. That's why motor-voter is so important for Democrat power. Dems know they can insert their own votes on fake ballots for ineligible non-citizens. That's why Virginia officials (Dems) declined to remove false voter registrations.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

My Old Timey Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS0kTGuKwlw

[Albion Wilde]

I see I left out Richmond, a BLM stronghold, the dark blue dot halfway down the eastern side.

[ripnbang]

Isn’t Charlotsville VT, not UVA?

[hal ogen]

She is a sociopath...no shame...no limits.

[Albion Wilde]

The University of Virginia (UVA or Virginia) is a public research university located in Charlottesville city and Albemarle County in Virginia, United States.

[rxh4n1]

My brother was and is an old-time fiddler. He has played the Galax festival many times. He told a story when Sen. John Warner brought Elizabeth Taylor along one year. He said she was visibly frightened by the crowd.