Plum Blossom Music is your Complete Wedding Music Solution. Built on the solid reputation of the Plum Blossom String Quartet as a provider of elegant classical music for ceremonies and cocktail hours, we now offer Love Me Do, a Beatles band for rockin' and romantic wedding receptions; Appalachian and bluegrass with the Early Grove String Band; Classical Hillbillies, a true classical string quartet with instrument switch to fiddle, banjo, guitar, and string bass for a down home bluegrass band — and more! Choose from a variety of options to suit any budget and let us create a package to meet all your wedding music needs. With decades of experience supplying music for weddings, multi-instrumentalist and singer Peter Markush serves as bandleader, manager, and performer.
Based in beautiful Charlottesville, Virgnia among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Plum Blossom Music serves Central and Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. We've performed in Richmond, Arlington, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Lynchburg, Fredericksburg, and even Greensboro, NC, at The Homestead, The Greenbrier, Townley IV Farm, Country Club of Virginia, Tuckahoe Plantation, The Inn at Old Virginia, Montpelier, The Inn at Willow Grove, The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Castle Hill Cider, House Mountain Inn, The Boar's Head Inn, Farmington, Keswick Hall, The Clifton Inn, King Family Vineyards, Greencroft, Veritas Vineyard and Winery, and countless other venues.
Thank you, Borrowed and Blue wedding vendors, for choosing The Plum Blossom String Quartet as the 2016 Best of B&B gold medal winner for ceremony musicians!
Thank you, Virginia Living Magazine, for choosing The Plum Blossom String Quartet as a Top Wedding Vendor for 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016!
Love Me Do - Beatles Medley
Classical Hillbillies (trio) - Canon in D (excerpt) - Johann Pachelbel
Classical Hillbillies (trio) - Canon Indie - Johann Pachelbel (arr. Classical Hillbillies)
Peter Markush, piano - Pure Heart
Early Grove String Band - Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
Plum Blossom Flute-Cello Duo - Trumpet Voluntary - Jeremiah Clarke
Peter Markush, solo violin - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Plum Blossom String Quartet - Air in D - Bach
Peter Markush, solo cello - A Thousand Years
Classical Hillbillies (quartet) - Midnight on the Water - Luke Thomasson (arr. Classical Hillbillies)
Peter Markush, solo violin - Rose of the Mountain
Love Me Do - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Peter Markush, piano - Home
Plum Blossom String Quartet - Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Peter Markush, solo cello - Prelude, Cello Suite #1 - Bach
Early Grove String Band - Cumberland Gap
Classical Hillbillies (quartet) - Over the Waterfall - trad. (arr. Classical Hillbillies)
Plum Blossom String Duo - 1. Allegro from Spring of The Four Seasons - Vivaldi
Plum Blossom String Quartet - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
Peter Markush, solo fiddle - Lowry's Quardrille
Classical Hillbillies (quartet) - Sheep May Safely Graze (excerpt) - J. S. Bach
Love Me Do - I Feel Fine
Peter Markush, solo cello - All You Need is Love
Peter Markush, piano - New Life
Plum Blossom String Quartet - The Ash Grove
Early Grove String Band - Old Joe Clark
Plum Blossom Flute-Cello Duo - Bridal Chorus - Felix Mendelssohn
Peter Markush, solo fiddle - Pretty Little Cat
Classical Hillbillies (quartet) - The Dopple Gang - D. Sebring (arr. Classical Hillbillies)
Love Me Do - All My Loving
Plum Blossom String Quartet - Largo from Winter of The Four Seasons - Vivaldi
Early Grove String Band - Johnny Don't Get Drunk
Peter Markush, solo cello - Minuet - Bach
Peter Markush, piano - The Kiss
Plum Blossom String Quartet - The Belles of Lexington
Classical Hillbillies (quartet) - Wedding March - Felix Mendelssohn
Early Grove String Band - Elzik's Farewell
Peter Markush, solo fiddle - Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
