Friday, October 4, 2019
Poplar Springs Elementary School
King, NC
5:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Enjoy Our "World Famous" Silent Auction!
Smoking Bluegrass Music, Food and Fun!
Stokes Partnership for Children is pleased to announce that the annual event “BBQ for Books with a Side of Bluegrass” will be held Friday, October 4, 2019 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Poplar Springs Elementary School in King. Bluegrass music is woven into the very fabric of Stokes County’s rich heritage. BBQ for Books with a Side of Bluegrass raises funds for early literacy initiatives for the county’s young children, including Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Because of these two things, it only made sense to add a side of bluegrass to our event!
Bring your dancing shoes because the music is going to be great! You can look forward to good food and great entertainment, including our World Famous Silent Auction, Dessert Silent Auction, Heads and Tails Game, Slop Bucket Bidding and Pig Pen Raffle. BBQ for Books has the reputation for having spectacular auction items! We are always trying to outdo ourselves! Due to high demand, we will have our popular take-out option again this year. Now folks can choose to dine-in with us or take their food to go. However, we’re encouraging people to stay because they don’t want to miss out on the music, auctions and games!
Food will be served from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and features John Brown’s BBQ. Tickets are $20 per plate in advance and $25 at the door, which includes barbecue pork, fried chicken, two slaws, beans, drink and dessert and all the entertainment.
Follow us on our Facebook page as information is updated and added. We will feature silent auction items there as time allows.
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Featuring
Terry Baucom's Dukes of Drive
7:00 PM
A native of Monroe, North Carolina, Terry Baucom has enjoyed a career in music that started in 1970 with Charlie Moore and continued over the years as a founding member of ground breaking bands like Boone Creek (with Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas), Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, IIIrd Tyme Out and more. Winner of the 2013 IBMA Recorded Event of the Year for "What'll I Do", Baucom currently tours with his own band, "Terry Baucom's Dukes of Drive". Last year's single, “The Rock”, finished 2015 as Bluegrass radio’s most played song on the Bluegrass Today chart. The band’s current Top 10 single, “Around The Corner”, is receiving heavy national and international airplay. In 2008, Deering Banjos introduced the Terry Baucom Signature model banjo, while the Dunlop company also uses Baucom as an endorser, offering Terry Baucom custom sets of banjo strings. A testament to his influence is evident when you listen to countless younger generation banjo players who use Baucom signature licks and emulate his driving technique.
In addition to playing on numerous recording sessions and producing instructional materials, Baucom teaches banjo, face to face - both privately and in camp and workshop settings.
The band consists of Joey Lemons from King, NC, on mandolin and vocals; Will Jones of Cana, VA, on guitar and vocals and Joe Hannabach of Pfafftown, NC on bass.
With Special Guest
Cindy Brooks Baucom
For more than thirty years, Cindy has pursued her passion for Bluegrass Music as an award winning broadcaster, producer, promoter, singer, musician, writer, photographer and MC. Her national radio show, “Knee-Deep In Bluegrass”, went into syndication in 2003 with distribution by the John Boy & Billy Radio Network. Now heard weekly in nearly a hundred radio markets, Cindy uses her knowledge of the music and enthusiasm to entertain and educate the listeners of her show. Her radio career started at the age of seventeen at her hometown station, WKSK in West Jefferson, NC. Her radio work continued regionally over the next fifteen years at WKBC, North Wilkesboro, NC and WFMX, Statesville, NC, preparing her for her ultimate broadcasting goal of national syndication.
Cindy was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Bluegrass Music Association and served two, 3-year terms consecutively, including one year as the IBMA Board’s vice-chair. She was producer of the 2008, 2009 and 2010 IBMA Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN.
Cindy has been involved with Merlefest since its beginning in 1988 and started serving as MC in 1990. Her MC work has taken her to a variety of stages and venues over the years.
She was producer on the 2011 Bluegrass release, “In A Groove” by her husband, Terry Baucom, bringing together some of the top names in Bluegrass for these recording sessions. She also produced the recording, “Never Thought of Looking Back”, which yielded the 2013 IBMA Recorded Event of the Year, “What’ll I Do”, featuring Terry Baucom with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Steve Bryant, Wyatt Rice and Buddy Melton.
She credits her early love for Bluegrass 100% to her father who played banjo, fiddle, guitar and mandolin and built stringed instruments. As a teenager she performed in a band with her dad and went on to work in other regional bands, singing and playing bass and guitar. She feels fortunate to have been presented the opportunities to promote the music she has loved all her life.
While being blessed with many accomplishments, Cindy is most proud of her family – children, Houston, Molly and Hunter, grandson, Kayden and husband, Terry. She thanks her mother and brothers for tolerating her Bluegrass obsession when she was relentlessly thumping bass to albums late into the night; carrying around a cassette recorder insisting on an interview; having jam sessions in the den; and begging to attend the next festival or show. She dedicates her work in Bluegrass to the loving memory of her dad, Jim Brooks, who taught her that music is less about notes and lyrics and more about the bond it creates among those we share it with.
Drive Time Band
6:00 PM
DriveTime is an innovative bluegrass band based out of Roxboro, NC. The band is known for their hard driving sounds and sweet, high harmonies. Influenced by Boone Creek, Doyle Lawson, Quick Silver, IIIrd Tyme Out and many others, they create their own refreshing sound. With diverse backgrounds in traditional bluegrass and country music, DriveTime encompasses a unique sound of their own. Coming straight out of the studio, DriveTime is underway to have their first album release early summer 2019. Be on the lookout for DriveTime and as their saying goes - Keep a DriveTime state of mind!
Austyn Howell - Guitar, Lead/Harmony Vocals
Tyler Jackson - Banjo, Harmony Vocals
Austin Koerner - Mandolin, Harmony Vocals
Katie Springer - Fiddle, Lead/Harmony Vocals
Grayson Tuttle - Bass, Lead/Harmony Vocals
Stokes Junior Mountain Music
5:00 PM
The Stokes Junior Mountain Music Program offers low cost group music instruction to students ages 8-12. Students learn traditional instruments such as guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and bass. Lessons are held on a weekly basis at The Arts Place of Stokes and Mount Olive Elementary. The program, offered through the Stokes County Arts Council, is funded in partnership with the North Carolina Arts Council.
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