COYLE — Squirrel Butter will perform at Concerts in the Woods at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The concert will be at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center at 923 Hazel Point Road.
Admission is by donation. Complimentary cookies and coffee will be served at intermission.
Squirrel Butter performs traditional and original music influenced by Appalachian, early country, jug band and blues artists from the late 1800s through 1950s.
It is the husband-and-wife duo of Charlie Beck — on banjo, fiddle and steel guitar — and Charmaine Slaven — on guitar and fiddle. Both sing. Slaven also is a square dance caller and clog dancer.
The band was recently featured on “A Prairie Home Companion” and has just released a new album, “Chestnuts.”
“I am very pleased to introduce Coyle to the duo Squirrel Butter, who I have known mostly from their previous project The Tallboys, a very active Seattle string band that led square dances at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard, as well as being a regular at the Bainbridge Bluegrass Festival,” said Norm Johnson, organizer of the concerts.
“Charmaine and Charlie are excellent musicians who understand the music they present. They are the real thing.”
The performance is a makeup concert for one canceled when a massive windstorm was predicted, but didn’t materialize, in October.
“This makeup is on a Saturday night instead of the usual Sunday afternoon for winter shows because the first Sunday in February is the Super Bowl,” Johnson said.
“Nobody comes to concerts when the Super Bowl is on.”
For more on Squirrel Butter, see www.squirrel butter.com.
For more information on the concert series, see www.coyleconcerts.com or contact Norm Johnson at 360-765-3449 or johnson5485@msn.com.
