Music Mondays with Johnny Cake & The Lunch Truck
Venue: McConnell Library (Radford University), Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Johnny Cake & the Lunch Truck
Date: Monday, March 27, 2023
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
Description:
Radford University's McConnell Library presents Music Mondays with Johnny Cake & The Lunch Truck on Monday, March 27, 2023 in the Bird Room.
Join us to hear the music and mayhem of two banjos and one guitar as a portion of Johnny Cake & The Lunch Truck perform.
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-445105795874043Admission is free.
McConnell Library is located at 945 East Main Street in Radford, VA on the campus of Radford University.
To view the event flyer, visit:
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For more information, visit:
https://www.facebook.com/mclib.ru/ or
https://www.instagram.com/mclib.ru/ or
http://www.radford.edu/content/library/RUC-library.html or call 540-831-5364.