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  • Dave Schwartz (left) and Kim Terpening, known as the Chambergrass duo, will perform at Edgecombe County's first bluegrass and folk music festival Saturday at Indian Lake Park. The festival will benefit Edgecombe Arts.

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September 7, 2012

Sounds of bluegrass, folk to fill Indian Lake Park

Staff Writer MIRANDA BAINES

TARBORO — The sounds of bluegrass and folk music will greet visitors at Indian Lake Park this Saturday as Edgecombe County’s first bluegrass festival begins at 10 a.m. and won’t end until 6 p.m. Saturday’s festival is a fundraiser to benefit Edgecombe Arts.

The Beaufort County Traditional Music Association — who performed at Second Saturday in July — will play from 10 a.m. until noon, as folks arrive for the festival. Marshall Stephenson and the Bluegrass Train will officially kick off the show at noon.

“I really look forward to the festival and I'm glad I got a hand in it,” Stephenson said. “It’s going to really be a lot of great pickin’ [out there] and it’s a great location.”

Stephenson started the Eastern North Carolina Bluegrass and Folk Festival in 1973 and is glad to see the establishment of a bluegrass festival in Edgecombe County. Go to a bluegrass festival once and you’re liable to “get hooked” on the upbeat acoustic music that tells “stories about real life,” he said.

As the band’s lead singer, Stephenson plans to serenade audiences with a number of ballads, including “Long Journey Home,” “Blue Ridge Mountain Home” and “Salty Dog Blues.”  The band’s banjo player, Eric Ellis, will do a rendition of “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” first recorded by Earl Scruggs, Stephenson’s “hero” of bluegrass music, in 1949. Rounding out Marshall Stephenson and the Bluegrass Train are Clyde Mattox on the dobro, tenor singer David Guthrie, and bass player/ harmony singer Carol Wade.

A bluegrass duo, Chambergrass, will take the stage at 3:40 p.m. The duo combines the traditional bluegrass style of banjo player Kim Terpening with bass player Dave Schwartz’ classical music training. Terpening teaches banjo lessons at the Blount-Bridgers House, headquarters of Edgecombe Arts, and found out about the festival from coordinators Joyce Turner and Carol Banks.

At the festival, Chambergrass will play everything from Beethoven, Bach and bluegrass instrumentals such as “Jerusalem Ridge” to the Flatt and Scruggs song “Great Big Woman” and a humorous tune about a Mississippi squirrel that gets loose in a church. The duo also plans to play Bill Monroe fiddle tunes chamber style. Monroe created the style of music now known as bluegrass and his band “Blue Grass Boys” were named after Monroe’s home state of Kentucky – the “bluegrass state.”

“He borrowed a little bit from blues guitar, Celtic music, and Irish/ Scottish,” said Terpening. She said many bluegrass songs have the feel of an Irish ballad telling a mournful story, but the timing of the music is unique to the bluegrass genre.

Saturday’s bluegrass festival is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Peter Temple, founder of the Tar River Boys. Temple started the bluegrass group in 1972 after playing at a show at East Carolina University coordinated by Monroe.  

The remaining members of the Tar River Boys have continued the musical tradition that Temple started. The group will perform at 1:35 p.m. at the festival.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for children ages 6 to 12 and free for children under the age of 6. Food vendors will offer carnival-style fare at the festival. No coolers or alcohol will be allowed on site.

Indian Lake Park is at 3202 Western Boulevard in Tarboro, near DaVita  Dialysis Center.

 

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