| Date: | October 22, 2016 |
| Time: | 12:00 - 3:00 PM |
| Venue: | Floyd Country Store |
| Organizations: | American Roots, Bradley Steele |
| Description: |
Floyd Country Store presents Americana Afternoon Music on Saturday, October 22, 2016 featuring American Roots, Bradley Steele and Clovis Draper. Music Line-Up: • 12:00 pm - American Roots with Fred & Jon Benfield • 1:15 pm - Bradley Steele • 2:15 pm - Clovis Draper American Roots is a Blacksburg-based acoustic guitar and vocal harmony duo performing roots and Americana music penned between about 1900 and 1950. Fred and Jon Benfield took the name “American Roots” because it describes the music they have enjoyed performing together in the five-county area over the last 30 or so years. The father and son guitar duo's musical influences are many and varied as are their shows which could be characterized as Americana Music: “Carter Family to Gershwin”. They are "Crooked Road Artists” interested in preserving the music of the southern Appalachians, but also enjoy performing tunes from other genres. Fred and Jon have spent most of their lives in and around the southern Appalachians and have developed an affection for the broad scope of music appreciated by folks in the region. Their performance may include traditional ballads, Appalachian blues, Piedmont blues, trad-country, trad-jazz, western swing, early country, tin-pan alley toe tappers, swing tunes, hot fiddle tunes (on guitar), and “folkgrass”. They’ve performed at venues all around the region including the Floyd Country Store, Blacksburg’s Steppin’ Out festival and Shawsville's Beans and Banjos. An retired ecology professor at Virginia Tech, Fred Benfield told a writer for Virginia Tech’s website, “My favorite part of performing is the communication that occurs between us during gigs. We’ve played together for so long that we just somehow know where the other is going on tunes without saying anything or even looking at each other.” Link: https://www.facebook.com/American-Roots-260081600850582/ Bradley Steele is an Americana Rock singer and guitarist from Pulaski, VA who was also the lead singer for regional rock band Aside Oceans. Each week we schedule different performers to play anything from blues, bluegrass and country to the American roots music of Ireland and Africa. Admission is free. For more information, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com or call: 540-745-4563. |