Beans and Banjos with Eight Point Star and Fort Vause
Venue: Meadowbrook Center, Shawsville
Organizations: Eight Point Star, Fort Vause, Shawsville Ruritan Club
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2018
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Charity
Cost:

Description:
The Shawsville Ruritan Club presents Beans and Banjos with Eight Point Star and Fort Vause on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at the Meadowbrook Center starting at 6:00 pm.

Eight Point Star, an old time band with a sound all its own, will be the featured performers at the latest edition of Beans and Banjos with Fort Vause opening the evening.

Eight Point Star is a New River Valley-Roanoke collective gathered around old-time and improvisational fiddler Mike Gangloff and bluesy fingerstyle guitarist Matt Peyton that draws on traditional and international roots to create a sound all their own.

With hardanger fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, banjos, gongs, singing bowls and lots more, this is a mostly acoustic sound, but with Matt's theremin and other electronics occasionally rising to the surface sometimes from the Golden Age jazz or Great American Songbook classics that Cara grew up singing, sometimes from the urgent, raw blues that Matt has pursued and sometimes from pure, free improvisation aimed at creating an in-the-moment symphony. This is extended Appalachian music with a story of its own to tell.

Solid, bluesy fingerstyle guitar and soaring, scratchy hardanger fiddle combine for duo explorations; a search for beauty.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/Eight-Point-Star-Band-2115905332014152/

Fort Vause is a collection of musicians based in Montgomery County, VA that performs in a variety of configurations. Depending on how they divide up, the band can play bluegrass, old time, gospel, traditional country and even what some folks call folk music.

Fort Vause features George Smith, who played banjo in the Appalachian Music Masters concert series and on recordings with Jack Hinshelwood and Buddy Pendleton; Jeff Wilcke, a doctor of veterinary medicine and rhythm guitar who also plays mandolin; and the newest member of the band, virtuoso guitarist Steven Paul, who came to Fort Vause from a Gypsy jazz band and is front man for the electric alt-country band Electric Road. Tim Thornton, who slipped onto a Black Twig Pickers recording once, plays bass and sometimes other things.

Links:

• https://myspace.com/fortvause
• https://www.facebook.com/fortvause/

In addition to the music, the evening will feature a supper of beans, cornbread and dessert. Both supper and music start at 6:00 pm.

A suggested $5.00 donation per person is requested to support the LINC Letter, a local publication that aims to help keep the Eastern Montgomery community communicating.

As always, Beans and Banjos operates on granny rules: no drinking, no smoking, no cussing and no spitting on the floor.

Y’all come on out for supper. Stay to dance or sing along – or just sit there and pat your foot.

LINC Letter is the non-profit community newsletter for Eastern Montgomery, and an affiliate of Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation. The LINC Letter is distributed to residents of Alleghany, Elliston, Ironto, Lafayette, and Shawsville.

For more information on LINC Letter, visit: http://www.lincletter.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/LINC-Letter-1011365385645495/.

For more information, visit: https://shawsvilleruritan.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/eight-point-star-old-time-with-a-twist/.