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Group to Perform at Carter Family Fold

A five-piece band, who has been together for more than 20 years, is this week’s performer at the Carter Family Fold.

Fescue is playing Saturday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Fold in Hiltons. Admission to the concert is $5 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free. 

Fescue is a five-piece band that has endured, like the grass it is named after, through over 20 years of presenting their style of bluegrass music to fans nationwide with a stage show comprised of a wide range of bluegrass music from slow ballads to hard-driving energetic bluegrass tunes.

While Fescue will certainly treat their listeners to a bluegrass staple here and there, the band prides itself on presenting material you won’t hear anyplace else with a repertoire showcasing standout original compositions and forgotten-but-beautiful bluegrass gems.  Complimenting these different types of songs are the various combinations of harmony vocals available within the members of the band.

Fescue consists of ‘Fat Albert’ Blackburn on bass, Mike Goodman on banjo, Garnet Lester on guitar, Raymond Campbell plays mandolin, Jordon Blevins on fiddle, and the entire band on vocals.  All members of Fescue are local musicians with the support of their families and employers in their music endeavors.

This gives the group the flexibility to very reliable--in all their years of experience on the road, Fescue has not missed any scheduled performances.  Fescue is also clean and wholesome fun for all ages; the band members and their associates pride themselves on being a drug and alcohol free group.

Fescue has received a long string of awards which include several first place wins at various Bluegrass festivals along with many top five finishes.  Specifically, the group took the esteemed first-place award in the Bluegrass Band Competition at the world-famous Galax Fiddlers Convention in Galax in 1997 and then backed up this performance with another first-place Bluegrass Band award in 2000. 

Fescue has garnered an extraordinary amount of critical acclaim, their work being praised in such magazines as Bluegrass Unlimited, Appalachian Life, and Bluegrass Now.  They have released several CDs and have performed throughout the U.S.

Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc. is part of the Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail.  You can visit the Crooked Road Music Trail site at http://thecrookedroad.org. Carter Music Center is a nonprofit, rural arts organization established to preserve traditional, acoustic, mountain music.  For further information on Carter Music Center, go to http://www.carterfamilyfold.org.

For more information on Saturday’s concert, contact the Museum of Mountain Music at (276) 645-0035.  For recorded information on shows coming up at the Fold, call 386-6054.

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