2022 Newport Jamboree featuring American Roots and The Jugbusters
Venue: Newport Community Park, Newport
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: American Roots, The Jugbusters
Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Family Friendly
Cost:
Adults: $5.00 Donation Kids Ages 12 & Under: Free
Description:
The Newport Jamboree continues their 13th Season Jamboree featuring the music of American Roots and The Jugbusters on Saturday, July 16, 2022 at the Newport Community Park.
Join us for a concert by The Sinking Creek featuring flat picking duo American Roots and local all stars The Jugbusters!
American Roots is a Blacksburg-based, father and son 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” (folk tunes played at bluegrass tempo).
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.”
The Jugbusters are the New River Valley's high energy old-time and honky-tonk dance kings!
Link: https://www.facebook.com/thejugbusters
The Big Lick Ice Cream truck will also be on site selling ice cream and frozen treats.
We will ask for a $5.00 donation from each adult to benefit the bands. Kids under 12 get in free.
Picnics and dogs on a leash are welcome.
Bring a chair, pack a swimsuit and your creekin' shoes and invite a friend.
The Village of Newport Ruritan Park is conveniently located 1.4 miles down Highway 42 / 650 Bluegrass Trail keep your eyes peeled for the signs off of 460 West.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/G2NHBx48/image.png.
For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/NewportJamboree/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/424428612844365/.
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