BBQ, Bluegrass & Brew Presented by Pierce Insurance

Oct. 6 @ 7 p.m.

The Cotton Barn

942 Laurie Ellis Road, Winterville

Join us for our annual fall fundraiser BBQ, Bluegrass & Brew. We will have the renowned bluegrass band, Hank, Pattie & the Current, all the BBQ you can eat from Moore’s Old Tyme BBQ, beer from Tarboro Brewing Company and Duck Rabbit Brewery, and a silent auction. All the money this fundraiser makes goes back to NC Stop Human Trafficking’s programs so that we can achieve a state free of human trafficking. Come out and have a great time for a great cause!

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THE BAND: Hank, Pattie & the Current

Two of North Carolina’s veteran bluegrass musicians– Hank Smith on Banjo and Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw on fiddle– join forces with some of the most versatile musicians in the Carolinas to create modern, American, acoustic music featuring the full range of their talents as composers and arrangers. The band is on tour regionally and nationally in support of their new album, RISE ABOVE on Robust Records.

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. The arrangements take on a new level of maturation that follows in the footsteps of Bela Fleck, Mark O’Connor, Chris Thile, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, and Tony Rice. Hank, Pattie & The Current want to pick up where seminal crossover groups like The Punch Brothers, Strength In Numbers and the ever-changing Bluegrass Allstars call home. The music is vocal and instrumental, allowing the band to experiment with arrangements and tailor the compositions to become vehicles for exploration. Hank Smith plays banjo, Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw plays fiddle and is lead vocalist. The Current includes Billie Feather on guitar and Stevie Martinez on bass.

PRESENTING SPONSOR: PIERCE INSURANCE

Every employer, public and private, has unique human resources challenges. Employee benefits should not be one of them. Pierce Insurance, an independent benefits consultant and full-service broker, understands the needs of their clients. It tailors benefits offerings based on the demographics, core plans, and desires of the clients and their employees.

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