Thursday, July 21st
Kings County Opry
Freddy's Back Room
485 Dean St. at 6th Ave.
Brooklyn
8 pm
Free
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The evening starts at 8pm with a song circle featuring all the night's acts as they jam and croon away on whatever songs strike their fancy. Following the circle three bands play an hour set. Sir His Highness El Presidente Doc Oscar books amazing bands every month and you can be assured an evening steeped deep in the hills of traditional American song.
The Lineup is:
The Song Circle at 8:30pm
Four performers around a microphone taking turns singing songs and picking. Each singer plays an old tune or an original song in this intimate setting. Tonight we have Bruce Henderson, Scott Williams (Buddy Scott Trio), Andy Tershak (Shotgun Shack) and Dock Oscar with Katherine Etzel (Sweet William).
Michael Daves Bluegrass Mob at 9:30pm
The Michael Daves Bluegrass Mob plays roof-raising string band music, as much in touch with the psychotic, trance-like Applachian mountain fiddling roots as with the notion that the early Bluegrass heroes - Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin, and others -- embodied the visceral, iconoclastic essence of rock n' roll before its time. Led by Daves on guitar, mandolin, and tenor vocals, the group features a rotating cast of New York's top traditional musicians.
Sheriff Uncle Bob at 10:30pm
An accomplished dobro player and singer of country and bluegrass songs, you may have seen Sheriff Uncle Bob as the leader of the weekly Old Time Jam at the Baggot Inn, or possibly performing onstage as leader of the Nieces and Nephews, or as a sideman in the popular group UncleF***er, but whatever the venue, expect a wonderful helping of sweet country music from the man with the badge.
