The Homegrown String Band will be celebrating their 28th anniversary performing as a family with a concert on Sunday, Jan. 12 at Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, 120 Main Street, Setauket at 2 p.m.
Twenty-eight years ago, the Homegrown String Band went to a Long Island Traditional Music Assoc. (LITMA) member’s concert and found out there was only one other person signed up to perform. Rather than a 15-minute slot, they had 45 minutes to fill up. They had so much fun, they continued performing and have since played at such venues as The National Theatre in Washington DC, the AFBA Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival, Musikfest, and the Festival of American Music in Branson, MO.
A family band with a unique repertoire of original and traditional music, the Homegrown String Band brings an American folk tradition into the twenty-first century. Comprised of mother, father, and daughter, the trio adds their own musical DNA to an American tradition, performing original acoustic arrangements of the traditional music that has become part of the popular roots and folk rock canon. All the songs the band presents have stood the test of time by not only surviving, but thriving and flourishing for hundreds of years via the folk process and oral tradition.
Listen to songs by the likes of the Carter Family, the Delmore Brothers, and Jimmie Rodgers, along with a tasty sprinkling of original material inspired by the rural American string band and folk traditions of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
Registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. To register, please call 631-941-4080.
