10/22: Supper & Music in Shawsville

Nancy Smith will be the featured performer at October’s Beans and Banjos. For years, Nancy performed her gospel music once a month at Hale’s restaurant. Now she’s back and performing at Hale’s twice a month. She’s performed at churches and events throughout the area and into West Virginia. She’s also recorded a dozen or more CDs featuring gospel standards as well as her own compositions. Nancy and her band were featured performers at a Mountains of Music Homecoming event, a Crooked Road festival of the music and culture of Southwest Virginia.

Fort Vause will open the musical portion of the evening with bluegrass and bluegrass flavored blues, ballads, gospel songs, novelty tunes and show tunes.

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 Tim Thornton, who plays bass for the band and has recorded with the Black Twig Pickers and Eight Point Star. (You may have heard Eight Point Star on the Blue Ridge PBS documentary The Story of the New River.)

In addition to all that music, the evening will feature beans and cornbread and dessert. Supper and music start at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22, at Shawsville’s Meadowbrook Community Center. That’s at 267 Alleghany Spring Road in Shawsville.

As always, we operate on 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. There’s no admission fee, but the LINC Letter hopes everybody who attends will chip in at least a $5 donation to help the LINC Letter keep publishing on paper and on line