Buck and Nelson featured in folk school concert

David Buck Buchanan and Nelson Thomas

Mountain, folk, bluegrass and old-time country music will be featured in a concert by Buck and Nelson at 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 20 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. Admission is free. Before the concert begins, the public is welcome to enjoy a public exhibition of Folk School student crafts from 6:40- 7:00 p.m. The Folk School Craft Shop will be open until 7:30 p.m. David Buck Buchanan and Nelson Thomas have been performing together for more than 25 years at concerts, barbeques, folk societies,

coffee houses, state parks, political rallies and festivals.. For several seasons they were featured as musicians and actors in The Reach of Song, Georgia's official historical drama. David Buchanan sings and plays guitar, mandolin, fiddle, old time clawhammer banjo, and mountain dulcimer. He lives near Baldwin, Georgia with his wife and two daughters. Nelson Thomas performs on guitar, bluegrass banjo, harmonica, jaw harp, washboard, spoons and more. He also sings, tells stories and lives in Blarisville, Georgia with his wife and three children.

Buchanan and Thomas feature old time mountain, bluegrass and country music along with a goodly dose of jokes and stories.

Upcoming Friday concert performers Fiddlin Howard Cunningham and the Appalachian Tunesmiths (November 10) and County Farm (December 1). The Folk School concert schedule is available on the world wide web at http://www.folkschool.org.

For further information call the Folk School at 828-837- 2775 or 1-800-FOLK-SCH.