Bashful Mountain Broadcasters to perform at Folk School

The Bashful Mountain Broadcasters will be featured in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 2 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown.

The public is welcome to enjoy a public exhibition of Folk School student crafts from 6:40 - 7 p.m in the Keith House Community Room, where the concert will be held.

The Bashful Mountain Broadcasters play old time string band music with a kick, bringing a strong new energy to the best old tunes and songs. According to Bluegrass Now Magazine, reviewing the band's debut CD: "They are young adult veterans of oldtime, alt country, and even rock music scenes. But the band members all come together with an obvious passion for traditional music, and the passion shows with a release that is wonderfully polished without being fussy, both energetic and carefully crafted.

They do indeed

come from diverse musical backgrounds. For several years, Tracy Hackney played electric mountain dulcimer with Bare Jr., a rock band out of Nashville fronted by Bobby Bare Jr., son of legendary country singer Bobby Bare. Alex Hall performed as a singer-songwriter in Virginia for many years before discovering the banjo when he moved to Greensboro, NC. In Greensboro, he played with Sissy T and the Grown Ups, an old-time group that also had as members Cary Fridley from the Freighthoppers and Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show. Alistair Newbern grew up playing classical violin in youth symphonies and listening to her father's bluegrass band, Sugarhill. She finally saw the light and started fiddling when she moved to Nashville. Matt Richardson has been playing music with Tracy Hackney since they were in high school, moving through many different genres and bringing a little bit of all of them to his melodic old-time guitar playing.

Currently the band members all live in different cities and enjoy getting together to pick.whenever they can. Tracy is a financial planner in Nashville. Alex manages Teacher's Aid, an educational supply store in Wilmington, NC. Matt works for Richardson Electric, a

family electrical supply business in Chattanooga. Alistair is a

professor at the UNC Law School in Chapel Hill.

Upcoming Folk School concerts include Celtic music by Barney's Goat (March 16) and old time mountain music by Mountain Fling (March 23). 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.