Leroy Savage & the Bottom Feeders Cap Off Wake Forest Unplugged Weekend

Sept. 16, 2010 - PRLog -- WAKE FOREST, N.C. -- Bring your dancin' shoes to the park for an afternoon with Leroy Savage & the Bottom Feeders! Famed tenor Leroy Savage brings his traditional country and honky tonk sound to the great outdoors for a music-filled afternoon at E Carroll Joyner Park. The Bottom Feeders feature Nashville studio stalwart (and former Contender) Tommy Goldsmith on electric guitar and Donnie Evans on pedal steel. Triangle favorites "Greenie" Marley and Ben Runkle deftly handle the bass and acoustic guitar duties. It's country music the way it used to be with a few surprises thrown in from the band's deep repertoire.

Savage, "The Father of Newgrass Music," earned his nickname, reputation and inclusion in the documentary films Bluegrass: Country Soul and High Lonesome, for his expressive tenor and his introduction of non-traditional songs into the bluegrass genre. His 1969 recording with the New Deal String Band on London Record's Sire label has become a cult favorite. Contemporary stars including Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush and Jack Lawrence list him as an influence on their musical development. In addition to the New Deal, Savage was a long-time member of one of North Carolina's best known bluegrass groups, The Bluegrass Experience.

From Friday, Oct. 1 through Sunday, Oct. 3, Wake Forest will be hosting "Wake Forest Unplugged...Get Connected," a rare opportunity for Wake Forest-area residents to "disconnect" from cell phones, PDAs, and computers, and "re-connect" with their community, friends, and family; it is sponsored by Wake Forest's Recreation Advisory Board.

Area residents and their families have an opportunity to sign a pledge form promising to "unplug" from their televisions, personal computers, blackberries, phones, and video games and instead engage in healthier, more active pursuits. The pledge form is available on Wake Forest's website. Everyone who returns their pledge form will be included in several prize drawings to be held during the concert intermission.

The Leroy Savage concert starts at 3 p.m. and will be the weekend's culminating activity, so plan to come early, bring a picnic lunch, and enjoy sack and relay races, hula hoop and more before the show! Fly a kite, take a stroll along any of the park's numerous trails and come kick off fall with some fun the whole family can enjoy! This concert is free and open to the public. Visit http://www.pinecone.org for complete details.

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PineCone—the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, is a private, nonprofit, charitable membership organization dedicated to preserving, presenting and promoting traditional music, dance and other folk performing arts.