2010 Bluegrass, BBQ, and Beer
A Summer Celebration

Date: Thursday, August 5th
Place: Rotary Park
Time: 5:30 - 7:30
Cost: $5 per person
Bands: Waiting on Trial, Sally Shuffield and Pat Dressen

Join Durango Nature Studies for our second annual bluegrass and beer fundraiser. This year we have moved it to Rotary Park. It should be a great way to relax with the family on the lawn and listen to some good music while supporting Durango Nature Studies. Thanks to donations by Sunnyside Meats, James Ranch, and City Market, there will be brats and burgers available, as well as beer donated by Carver’s.

The music will start off with Durango Nature Studies’ own, Sally Shuffield, accompanied by Pat Dressen from the Badly Bent on mandolin. Sally’s third CD, “Something in the Water,” charted nationally on the folk and american roots radio charts. According to No Depression Magazine, “Although she shares a regional home and vocal style with Iris Dement, Shuffield’s decades-long stay in the Western states has tinged her song-writing with themes of coyotes and canyons, as well as lost love and rambling songs...There are plenty of reasons to be glad Shuffield rode west.” To hear her music, visit www.sallyshuffield.com.

Sally will be followed by one of Durango’s hottest new bluegrass bands, Waiting on Trial. According to David Smith from KDUR, “As a collective whole, Waiting on Trial is a welcoming addition to the Durango acoustic scene. Not quite bluegrass and not quite old time – they’re the Animas River in a spring flood; they’re the La Plata Mountains in a dusting of October snow; they’re a grove of Ponderosas in a summer fire – you know it’s going to happen eventually, but you never really know what it’ll be all about. All you can do is sit back and take it in.” To hear their music, visit www.myspace.com/waitingontrial.