Hank, Pattie & The Current join the Winston-Salem Symphony String Quartet for an evening of modern, American, acoustic and string music at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 12, at the Blue Ridge Music Center. The evening will include separate sets with the String Quartet and Hank, Pattie & The Current, and a collaboration between the groups in the outdoor amphitheater at the base of Fisher Peak. The Music Center is located at milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Two of North Carolina’s veteran bluegrass musicians, Hank Smith on banjo and Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw on fiddle, join forces with Billie Feather on guitar and Stevie Martinez on bass to create modern, American, acoustic music. Their repertoire features the full range of their talents as composers and arrangers as well as singers and musicians.
The band makes use of traditional bluegrass instrumentation in a nontraditional way to present original music to the listener that goes beyond the limits of the idiom. Hank, Pattie & The Current play in the musical space that seminal crossover groups like The Punch Brothers, Strength In Numbers, and the ever-changing Allstars of Bluegrass call home.
The Winston-Salem Symphony’s mission is to bring music to life. Believing that music has the power to inspire, the Symphony desires for audiences to experience music in a way that is relevant and meaningful to their own lives. Through the Symphony Unbound series, it brings music out of the concert hall and into the community, collaborating with musicians from other genres.
In this performance, a string quartet collaborates with Hank, Pattie, & The Current. The evening will begin with a set by the String Quartet, followed by a set with Hank, Pattie & The Current, and finishing with a set with both groups.
Tickets are $25 adults, children 12 and younger admitted free.
