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The West Branch Angler & Resort will host a river celebration featuring two top-notch musical acts on Sunday, Aug. 21.
The featured bands are the Alvarado Road Show, a Nashville-based country trio making its first appearance in New York that
weekend, and the Blues Maneuver, the horn-driven Catskills R&B band
that has been a regional favorite for more than a decade.
The event, “North Meets South on the West Branch,” is sponsored by Friends of the Upper Delaware River. It will be held from 5 to 9 p.m.
Admission
is free and open to everyone. Donations will be taken to cover the cost
of the bands and to support FUDR’s ongoing work to protect the Upper Delaware River system. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
“We’re
inviting everyone to come celebrate the best fishing season we’ve had
in a long, long time with some cold beer and some hot music,” said Dan
Plummer, chairman of FUDR, a nonprofit river conservation group. “A new
reservoir water release plan and Mother Nature--along with a little help
from our friends--has kept the fish safe, and the fishing is still
going strong. It’s time to celebrate.”
The
West Branch Angler & Resort is located on the West Branch of the
Delaware River near Hale Eddy, off Route 17 between Hancock and Deposit,
N.Y. (To get there, take Route 17 to the Hale Eddy exit, cross the Hale
Eddy Bridge, then turn left on Faulkner Road and proceed 3/4 of a mile
to the resort.)
The
Alvarado Road Show features brothers AJ and Cleve Clark and their
nephew, drummer Brandon Trey. Known for tight sibling harmonies and
vivid songwriting, ARS is a touring band that does more than 150 shows a
year. The trio has performed in Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry, the famed Ryman Auditorium and at the CMA Music Festival.
Cleve
and AJ Clark are contract songwriters for Sony/ATV Music Publishing,
and they have shared credits with some of the biggest hitmakers in rock
and country music, including Steve Wariner, Stan Lynch, David Z, Kyle
Cook, Kim Williams and Rick Carnes.
The Blues Maneuver will get the party started at 5:15 p.m., then will join ARS on stage for a north-meets-south jam at end of the trio’s set.
Luther Krajicek, frontman of the Blues Maneuver, said he became acquainted with the Clarks and Trey on the Gulf Coast.
“There are hundreds of great musicians working down on the southern coast, influenced both by Nashville and New Orleans,”
Krajicek said. “But these guys stood from the moment I heard their
first song as something completely original. Great songs, great
harmonies, great guys.”
Krajicek lured them to New York for
the first time this summer by booking them at several gigs, including
the “Hoedown in the Blowdown” festival near Oneonta on Aug. 19 and as a
show-opener for Mary Chapin Carpenter at the Belleayre Summer Music
Festival on Aug. 20.
“I
was saving Aug. 21 for a joint show with Blues Maneuver and ARS, and
the river celebration was the perfect fit for that, thanks to Dan
Plummer of FUDR and Sam Batschelet of West Branch Angler,” Krajicek
said.
Dan Plummer, Chairman
Friends of the Upper Delaware River
607-363-7848 office
607-363-7975 fax
