Butternut Creek and Friends in concert

Butternut Creek and Friends: Kneeling: Jennifer Cordier. Back row: Don Cordier, Brenda Hull, Steve Harvey.

Traditional folk songs, blues, gospel music and more will be featured in a free concert by Butternut Creek and Friends at 7:30 pm on Friday,

October 19 at The John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. The public is welcome to enjoy a public exhibition of Folk School student crafts from 6:40 - 7:00 p.m in the Keith House Community Room, where the concert will be held .

Butternut Creek and Friends is a folk group from the North Georgia mountains. The group's repertoire is eclectic - blues, old standards and popular songs as well as traditional folk songs from the mountains.

Members of Butternut Creek and Friends are Jennifer Cordier, Don Cordier, Steve Harvey and Brenda Hull. To the guitar, banjo, bass and autoharp they add harmonious voices and an assortment of unusual instruments including flute, doumbec, spoons and ukulele. For this concert they will be joined by two other "Friends," John and Laurie Simpson. Laurie plays autoharp, clarinet and concertina, while John plays guitar, pennywhistle and recorder.

Butternut Creek and Friends performs for fun and donates the money that it earns to charity. The group has donated money to the Wilderness Scouts, S.A.F.E. House, the Union County Courthouse Renovation, the Brasstown Concert Association and the Georgia Mountain Station Arboritum as well as a variety of environmental protection projects.

Butternut Creek and Friends has fiverecordings. The most recent CD is entitled "Down In My Garden Row" and features several original numbers by John Simpson, including the title song.

The Folk School's concert schedule is available on the world wide web at http:// www.folkschool.org. Upcoming performers include Geoff Hohwald & Friends (November 2) and The Songtellers (November 9).

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