Sat 2/18@ 8PM
It hasn’t been that long since the Honey Dewdrops — husband-and-wife duo of Kagey Parrish and Laura Wortman — were in northeast Ohio. They’ve made several appearances at the G.A.R. Hall in Peninsula as part of its Voices in the Valley series, mostly recently last April.
Their tradition-based acoustic music, which relies on guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and the duo’s intuitive vocal harmonies, combines an artless simplicity and an artful confidence. Original from Virginia, but now settled in Baltimore, Maryland (and spending a good chunk of their time on the road), the Honey Dewdrops released their fourth album Tangled Country in 2015. Its spirit and stories emerged directly from all that road time.
“Touring is like collecting images of landscapes, sounds of voices, contents of stories, moods of places and environments,” says Wortman. “All of that can be useful. It tells you something about human nature, about how the world works, little by little.”
This time around, the duo is playing a slightly larger venue — Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s Happy Days Lodge just up the road from the G.A.R. Hall. Tickets are $20, $15 for conservancy members and $5 for kids 3-12.
Buy tickets at forcvnp.org/concerts or by calling 330-657-2909, option 4.