By Desiree Williams
After completing a cross-country tour last year, as well as touring Europe and Canada, traditional country and folk duo Beverly Smith and John Grimm are stopping in Indiana.
They will be performing at 7:30 p.m., May 27 at Logan Street Sanctuary in Noblesville. Logan Street Sanctuary suggests a $12 donation, which goes to the performers, but admission is free of charge.
Smith and Grimm individually found music at a young age, but they became a duo four years ago after meeting at the Bear on the Square Mountain Festival in Dahlonega, Georgia.
“We met there and played some fiddle tunes together,” Grimm said. “We liked what we did and got together after that.”
Both musicians are award-winning multi-instrumentalists – each can play the fiddle, banjo, guitar and mandolin – and singers. Grimm describes their sound as traditional old time music accompanied by harmony singing.
They are inspired by turn-of-the-century music and fiddlers like Tommy Jarrell and Clyde Davenport, or “obscure artists no one has ever heard of,” Grimm said, jokingly. The duo performs the old time tunes often, but they have also written original pieces.
“In our performances, we don’t want to write anything that sounds too modern,” Grimm said.
The duo recently released their second CD and a third is in the works. Grimm said their albums usually include old tunes with one or two original pieces, but they want to incorporate more originals on the next CD.
Grimm also owns Vintage Music, a shop in Georgia where he sells instruments, teaches music lessons and offers a recording studio facility for patrons.
For more, visit smithgrimm.com.
