2011 Bluegrass, BBQ, and Beer
A Summer Celebration

Date: Thursday, August 4th
Place: Rotary Park
Time: 5:00 - 9:00
Cost: $5 per person
Bands: Sky High, Sally Shuffield and Kathy Sutterfield, Sugar Don't Stop, Rusted Prairie

Join Durango Nature Studies for our third annual bluegrass and beer fundraiser at 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. Last year was so muc fun, we've decided to double it! We'll have four bands, twice the beer, and twice the food. 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.

5:00 - 5:45 - Sky High
Luann Andrew, Michael Schultz, and Caroline Johnson are amazing local pickers who have formed the band Sky High.. They play all genres of music from Bluegrass to Celtic to Beatles tunes.

6:00 - 6:45 - Sally Shuffield and Kathy Sutterfield
Durango Nature Studies’ own, Sally Shuffield, will be accompanied by Kathy Sutterfield on guitar and clawhammer banjo. 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. Kathy also hails from Arkansas and has had many years playing at the Ozark Mountain Folk Center.

7:00 - 7:45 - Sugar Don't Stop
Sugar Don't Stop is the musical union of Estella Moore and Brad Bartlett, the wife and husband duo better known as the founding members of one of Durango's favorite bluegrass bands, Wild Mountain.  Sugar Don't Stop plays a unique mix of original bluegrass and Americana music which blends traditional ‘mountain music’ music with engaging historic, social, and environmental themes. Sugar Don't Stop is unadultered fun that will make you want to get up and dance around the jukebox.

8:00 - 9:99 - Rusted Prairie
Rusted Prairie hails from the backyards of Spring Hollow and Bear Creek and the spaces in-between, blending traditional bluegrass, folk ballads and upbeat originals.  No strangers to the music scene, the lineup includes vocal blends by rhythm guitar player Bruce Whitehead, Sue Coulter on bass and mandolin, and Carol Calkin on fiddle. Duane Tucker drives the group with banjo melodies, Michelle Fletcher accompanies with guitar, and Jeff Moorehead rounds out the ensemble with blazing dobro and six-string flat-picking.  The audience is encouraged to join in the fun by dancing and providing an occasional “hoot & holler” when the feeling so moves.  Don’t miss this opportunity to see Rusted Prairie!