February Beans and Banjos with Johnny Cake & the Lunch Truck and Fort Vause
Venue: Meadowbrook Center, Shawsville
Organizations: Fort Vause, Johnny Cake & the Lunch Truck, LINC Letter
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2020
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Family Friendly, Charity
Cost:

Description:
The February Beans and Banjos features music from Johnny Cake & the Lunch Truck and Fort Vause on Saturday, February 22, 2020 in the Dr. George R. Smith Community Center within the Meadowbrook Center in Shawsville, VA.

Along with the music, we will have beans, cornbread and desserts – dinner and a show Shawsville style. Supper and music begin at 6:00 pm.

Johnny Cake and the Lunch Truck are coming back to Beans and Banjos! The group’s Facebook page describes Johnny Cake and the Lunch Truck as a “newgrass/bluegrass band that draws musical inspiration from jazz, rock, country, blues and more. It is all good.”

Johnny Cake & the Lunch Truck is a bluegrass and newgrass band based in the New River Valley. The band draws musical inspiration from jazz, rock, country, blues and more. The band plays classics such as Blackberry Blossom and Red Haired Boy, bluegrass standards such as White Freightliner, and jazzier numbers including Sweet Georgia Brown. They do it with guitars, banjos, bass and a percussion section that includes bodhran (that Celtic drum you’ll often see in Irish sessions).

You may have heard the band at the Palisades, at Rising Silo, or at the Fatback Soul Shack. You can hear more of their music on Facebook and on YouTube.

Band members Bud, Jeff, Aaron, Beth, and Anthony each hungered for a band that would both pay homage to tradition and to interpret that tradition in new ways that were respectful of the past with an eye to the future. One day they somehow all ended up in line together at the lunch truck. The rest is history.

Each member comes to the band from a different musical genre: rock, blues, funk, folk, bluegrass and more come together along with years of experience drawn from playing in bands in all genres. Just like soup, or chili, when you add in all those tasty ingredients, you end up with something much more than a sum of its parts. Johnny Cake & the Lunch Truck satisfies.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/Johnny-Cake-the-Lunch-Truck-445105795874043

Fort Vause will open the show with bluegrass and bluegrass flavored blues, ballads, gospel, novelty and show tunes.

Fort Vause is a collection of musicians based in Montgomery County, VA that performs in a variety of configurations. Depending on how they divide up, the band can play bluegrass, old time, gospel, traditional country and even what some folks call folk music.

Fort Vause features George Smith, who played banjo in the Appalachian Music Masters concert series and on recordings with Jack Hinshelwood and Buddy Pendleton; Jeff Wilcke, a doctor of veterinary medicine and rhythm guitar who also plays mandolin; and the newest member of the band, virtuoso guitarist Steven Paul, who came to Fort Vause from a Gypsy jazz band and is front man for the electric alt-country band Electric Road. Tim Thornton, who slipped onto a Black Twig Pickers recording once, plays bass and sometimes other things.

Links:

• https://myspace.com/fortvause
• https://www.facebook.com/fortvause/

This Evening of Beans and Banjos raises money for the LINC Letter and its LINC webpage. We hope each person who comes will donate $5.00 or more.

It’s the first Saturday after Valentine’s Day, so it’s a good time to show your Valentine you don’t need a holiday to have a good time.

As always, Beans and Banjos operates by granny rules: No drinking; no smoking; no cussing; no spitting on the floor. Y’all come on out for supper. Stay to dance or sing along – or just sit there and pat your foot.

The Meadowbrook Center is located at 267 Alleghany Spring Road in Shawsvile, VA, at the corner of Alleghany Spring and U.S. 460.

For more information, visit: https://shawsvilleruritan.wordpress.com/.