Butternut Creek to Play in Brasstown Community

Left to right: Don Cordier, Jennifer Cordier, Steve Harvey, and Rachel Caviness.

Once again, the Brasstown Community Civic Center will feature live music at their location on Settawig Road in Brasstown, North Carolina. This Saturday, August 26, 2006, at 7:00 PM, the spotlight will shine on Butternut Creek and Friends. Butternut Creek and Friends is a folk group from the North Georgia Mountains. The group's brand of music is eclectic - blues, old standards, and popular songs, as well as traditional folk songs from the mountain region - but each tune bears its happy stamp. To the guitar, banjo, and autoharp, they add harmonious voices and an assortment of unusual instruments including the flute, doumbek, spoons, and ukulele.

The group began as a mountain church choir in the late eighties, but soon did performances in the community, and has been performing as Butternut Creek and Friends since 1993. Now the "Butternuts" perform regularly at the Campbell Folk School, at community festivals, and for private gatherings throughout North Georgia and Western North Carolina. Butternut Creek and Friends have produced a total of five recordings. The most recent recording is "Down My Garden Row", a CD featuring some of the more frequently requested songs from the group's concerts. The CD includes "Lazy Bones", "Cruel War", "The Garden Song", and "Prayer". Butternut Creek and Friends perform for fun.

The fees for concerts, festivals, and parties pay for their recording expenses, and the proceeds from the recordings go to charities. Through donations and benefit performances, Butternut Creek has supported many local organizations including: the Wilderness Scouts, the S.A.F.E. shelter for battered women, the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center's Community Council education projects, the Union County Food Bank, and the Union County Courthouse Restoration Project. They also support projects to protect the environment in places as far away as Vermont and Guyana. Butternut Creek and Friends is, in short, a group that tries to give back all that it receives from the mountain community that is its home, a place where, as one song puts it, "the blossoms are a-bloomin' and music fills the air".

Traditional music concerts are held at the Brasstown Community Civic Center on the second and fourth Saturdays of warm weather months. Concert time is 7:00 PM, with the box office and kitchen open at 6:30 PM. Admission is $3.00 for adults, with children under 12 free. Hot dog plates, desserts, and soft drinks are available for purchase. The center is fully air-conditioned, and strives to provide affordable entertainment in a family-friendly environment. Everyone is welcome to hear some good music in beautiful Brasstown, North Carolina this Saturday Night!