When was the last time you went to a concert and the lead singer gave a shout-out to Troutville?

Leave it to the neo-traditionalist rounders of Old Crow Medicine Show to celebrate the music and places of Southwest Virginia. The six-man, three-banjo band played a Saturday night show at the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre that was part hoedown, part travelogue. Stretched across the stage six abreast like suspects in a police lineup, the group conducted a virtual tour of Southern stringband music from the early 1900s through 2006.

The crowd of 1,050 resembled the dudes on stage: Most of the fans appeared younger than 30, although more than a few guys sported ZZ Top-style beards.

Old Crow knew it was on home turf. The opening romp, “Are You From Dixie?,” set the tone and pace, as the group briskly and breezily worked through two sets of old songs and originals.

Of course, “Wagon Wheel” was an anticipated highlight. The song, an old Bob Dylan chorus swiped from Arthur Crudup, is the group’s most popular number, and the crowd sang every word. The final verse, which mentions Roanoke, went over especially well.

But “Wagon Wheel” was just the capper on a splendid, rousing evening.

Displaying their sense of place, the Medicine men ripped through the fiddle breakdown “Lee Highway Blues,” knowing full well that the road that bears that name — old U.S. 11 — rolls right through Roanoke.

After an encore that included Secor’s mock band introductions of members Turner Ashby, Ralph Sampson, Stonewall Jackson and John Payne (another nod to Roanoke), the band went out with a stringband version of the Alabama hit “Dixieland Delight.” Twenty young audience members rushed the stage and danced improvised jigs, hippie-chick shimmies and flatfoot imitations; a fitting end to a rowdy, fun night.