On Saturday November 11 the Fort Bragg Guild present an album release party for Mason & Weed: Across the Pond at the Inglenook Community Center, (Grange Hall)
Doors open at 5:30pm, show time is 7pm 5:30pm dinner hour with live music and food before the show. There will be a bar with mixed drinks and food for purchase. All proceeds raise funds for the Inglenook Community Center.
Tickets are $20 online at Brown Paper Tickets, Nello’s Market or at the door.
There will be a bar with beer, wine and mixed drinks and food for purchase. All proceeds raise funds for the Inglenook Community Center. Please help support the Guild so we can bring in more touring musicians!
John Weed (fiddle) and Stuart Mason (guitar, bouzouki, mandola, banjo) have completed their first recording as a duo, aside from their two instructional CDs. On Across the Pond from Mason & Weed, the traditions of Ireland, Scotland, France, Canada, and Louisiana meet in the American melting pot. The album was recorded last winter just up the hill from the Community Center where the show will be held.
The music on Across the Pond ranges from early American ballads and songs newly composed by their peers, to beautiful melodies with Celtic and French roots. From the Irish jigs that open the record to the joyful reels that signal the end, Mason & Weed remain true to their love of American old timey music and Irish trad while expanding the repertoire to include traditional and new music from other eras and regions.
John Weed (fiddle) and Stuart Mason (guitar, mandola, banjo) will be performing traditional Appalachian, blues, and Celtic music that digs deep into the roots of bluegrass music.
Long before the time of Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley and the Carter Family, rural Americans were singing and fiddling the ballads and dance tunes of Britain and Ireland, as well as the sentimental and comedy hits of the wildly popular minstrel shows. These sources provided a well of material that later formed the basis of the bluegrass repertoire.
Mason & Weed in Concert
Fort Bragg Grange #672
26500 N. HWY 1, Fort Bragg, CA
Doors open for drinks and food at 5:30, show starts at 7pm. Tickets are
$15 and are available at Nello’s Market in Fort Bragg and Brown Paper
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3114445
2016/11/11 - 2016/11/11
Fort Bragg Grange #672
26500 N. HWY 1, Fort Bragg, CA 95437