PineCone & Busy Bee Café Celebrate One-Year Anniversary of Bluegrass Jam

July 22, 2011 - PRLog -- For the past year, the PineCone Bluegrass Jam has made its home in the Busy Bee Café in downtown Raleigh, and to celebrate the year-old partnership, the Busy Bee will donate 10% of all food and drink sales from The Hive the night of Monday, July 25 to PineCone, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, presenting and promoting traditional music!

Music will start at 6 p.m. with members of the Clear Run Band and Nixon, Blevins & Gage, as well as other special guests who have graciously volunteered to join in a specil hour-long pre-jam round-robin!

The jam will run as usual from 7-10 p.m. Though the jam is free and open to the public, there will be a $5 suggested donation at the door, or just $1 for musicians; all proceeds from the door will also go to PineCone. Your donation will also enter you into the door prize drawings. Prizes include:

   -Gift certificate for a workshop at High Strung Violins & Guitars in Durham
  -$25 discount for instrument repair at Guitar Workshop in Raleigh
   -CDs from Tommy Edwards; Nixon, Blevins & Gage; The Grass Cats
   -Night on the Town: Busy Bee gift certificate & pair of tickets to Hot Rize Oct. 9 concert in Raleigh

Whether you're looking to play some music yourself or just enjoy the cameraderie and hear some bluegrass music, please stop by the PineCone Bluegrass Jam at the Busy Bee Café on Monday, July 25!

You can join bluegrass musicians of all levels at the Busy Bee Café in downtown Raleigh on the second and fourth Monday of every month. The jam runs from 7 - 10 p.m. Whether you're a first-time jammer or a veteran, you're welcome to learn the tunes and play along, or just listen and observe! For more information, please contact jam leaders Doug Pratt (dpratt14@nc.rr.com) and David Hedrick (stringsof9@hotmail.com).

Learn more about the PineCone bluegrass jam: https://www.pinecone.org/bluegrass-jam.php

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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.