September Beans and Banjos with American Roots
Venue: Meadowbrook Public Library, Shawsville
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: American Roots, LINC Letter
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2021
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Charity
Cost:
Suggested donation of $5.00.

Description:
The LINC Letter presents Beans and Banjos with music from American Roots on Saturday, September 25, 2021 outside behind the Meadowbrook Library.

The father-son duo Fred and Jon Benfield with play guitar and sing everything from The Carter Family to W.C. Handy to Hoagy Carmicheal. Along with the music, we will have beans, cornbread and desserts, dinner and a show Shawsville style. Supper and music begin at 6:00 pm.

American Roots is a Blacksburg-based acoustic guitar and vocal harmony duo performing roots and Americana music penned between about 1900 and 1950. Fred and Jon Benfield took the name “American Roots” because it describes the music they have enjoyed performing together in the five-county area over the last 30 or so years.

The father and son guitar duo's musical influences are many and varied as are their shows which could be characterized as Americana Music: “Carter Family to Gershwin”. They are "Crooked Road Artists” interested in preserving the music of the southern Appalachians, but also enjoy performing tunes from other genres. Fred and Jon have spent most of their lives in and around the southern Appalachians and have developed an affection for the broad scope of music appreciated by folks in the region. Their performance may include traditional ballads, Appalachian blues, Piedmont blues, trad-country, trad-jazz, western swing, early country, tin-pan alley toe tappers, swing tunes, hot fiddle tunes (on guitar), and “folkgrass”.

They’ve performed at venues all around the region including the Floyd Country Store, Blacksburg’s Steppin’ Out festival and Shawsville's Beans and Banjos.

An retired ecology professor at Virginia Tech, Fred Benfield told a writer for Virginia Tech’s website, “My favorite part of performing is the communication that occurs between us during gigs. We’ve played together for so long that we just somehow know where the other is going on tunes without saying anything or even looking at each other.”

Link: https://www.facebook.com/American-Roots-260081600850582/

Admission is a $5.00 suggested donation.

All proceeds will benefit helping us continue bringing the non-profit LINC Letter to your mailbox and to Linking Individual Needs in our community.

In case of inclement weather, the event will be moved inside.

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, Virginia.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/eastmont.lincletter

As always, Beans and Banjos operates by granny rules: No drinking; no smoking; no cussing; 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.

For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/eastmont.lincletter/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/4808929789131821/.

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