Joe Newberry and Chris Brashear. This show will sell out so get your tickets ($20, no hidden fees) early! https://rockhousecenterforthearts.org/calendar-tickets

Doors open at 6:00. Music begins at 7:00. BYOB, Potluck dinner optional. Reeds Spring Pizza Co. delivers. (417)272-3507.

Parking across the street or anywhere in downtown Reeds Spring. Parking behind the Rock House is for musicians and handicapped parking only. Please call ahead if you need to use one of the handicapped parking spaces. (417)339-9396.

Joe Newberry, Known around the world for his clawhammer banjo playing,
Missouri native Joe Newberry is also a powerful guitarist, singer
and songwriter. Growing up in a family full of Ozarks singers and
dancers, with roots in Spring eld, Mo., West Plains, Mo., and Eureka
Springs, Ark., his Grandfather Newberry was a long-time hunting
and fishing companion of Ozark song collector Vance Randolph.
Joe's dad was a classmate and friend of song collector Max Hunter.
A longtime and frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion,
Newberry was a featured singer on the Transatlantic Sessions
2016 tour of the U.K. with fiddler Aly Bain and Dobro master
Jerry Douglas, and at the Transatlantic Session's debut at Merlefest
in 2017. In addition to his Ozarks collaboration with Chris Brashear, he plays
in a duo with mandolin icon Mike Compton, and with the fiddler and
step-dancer April Verch. Chris Brashear plays fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and he is a singer with a wide vocal range and a clear, distinctive voice.
Growing up in Ozark, Missouri, in the rolling farm country situated south of the James River between Spring eld and Branson, Chris frequented “the Shack” on Saturday
nights to hear and play along with fiddlers Emmanuel Woods and Art Galbraith, the Woods family, and Byron “Bye” Kelly. He also knew Max Hunter and a variety of regional singers interested in learning, singing, and performing ballads from the Ozarks.
Chris’s Ozarkian heritage remains a vital piece of his musical creativity and repertoire. In 2017, he was asked to be part of the Berea College Music Festival as a presenter and performer of music from the Ozarks region. Brashear’s solo recordings were produced by Jody Stecher and Jim Rooney.