NextThreeDays: Event Display

Beans and Banjos with John and Kathie Hollandsworth and Fort Vause
Venue: Meadowbrook Center, Shawsville
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Fort Vause, John and Kathie Hollandsworth
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2019
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Charity
Cost:
Suggested $5.00 donation per person.

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Description:
The LINC Letter presents April's Beans and Banjos with John and Kathie Hollandsworth and Fort Vause inside the Dr. George R. Smith Community Center located within the Meadowbrook Center in Shawsville, VA.

John and Kathie Hollandsworth will be the featured musicians in their first appearance at Beans and Banjos along with openers Fort Vause.

John and Kathie Hollandsworth are natives of Christiansburg, Virginia, and have been performing and teaching since the early 1980's, with a repertoire that includes traditional Appalachian music and its many related styles.

John has been developing his own autoharp style since childhood, when he became familiar with traditional music through playing with relatives and friends. His playing style incorporates both chromatic and diatonic techniques, and he is highly sought after as a workshop leader and classroom teacher of his style and repertoire. In 2010 he was inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame.Â Kathie sings, plays hammered dulcimer and upright bass, and they are popular performers and clinicians, both in the Virginia and North Carolina region and nationally.

Kathie sings and plays hammered dulcimer and upright bass and she has led workshops on those instruments and on traditional song. Together, John and Kathie truly enjoy sharing their Appalachian musical heritage with a wide variety of concert and festival audiences.

They also perform with the old-time dance band Katie & the Bubbatones.

Link: https://www.blueridgeautoharps.com/resume.htm

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 desserts. 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.

April’s event will be the last Beans and Banjos until fall, so be sure from come by for a dose of Beans and Banjos that’ll carry you through the summer.

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

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: https://www.facebook.com/LINC-Letter-1011365385645495/.

For more information on the event, visit: https://shawsvilleruritan.wordpress.com/.