The Indian Run Stringband produced The Smithfield Sessions on a winter day at Blacksburg’s historic Smithfield Plantation. The experience evoked such a spirit of traditional music, they’re hosting the local band’s CD release party there
Award-winning and prolific, Blacksburg’s Indian Run Stringband will host a CD release party at Smithfield Plantation from 3–5 p.m. Sunday.
The band recorded in the drawing room of the old house in February calling the room “the perfect setting – both acoustically and aesthetically.”
Recording the music at the colonial plantation this winter means holding the CD party sets the music in context.
The Indian Run Stringband is Paul Herling, fiddle, Ginger Wagner, clawhammer banjo, and Kristie Dorfler, bass.
“We experienced the same type of hospitality westward-bound settlers received before they journeyed on,” the band said of their experience recording the collection.
“We were completely immersed in the romance of the colonial period as we recorded some of our favorite songs,” they said.
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