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Harry & Friends featuring Pete and Joan Wernick
May 15 @ 7:00 pm
$20.00
Doors: 6PM / Show:7PM
About Harry & Friends
In 2025, the tradition continues! Our founder, Harry Tuft, will be coming by to swap songs and stories with his talented musician friends.
The evening begins with an interview and performance with Harry’s guest, from 7:00 – 8:15 PM.
From 8:15 – 9:45PM, there will be a song circle, to which players and listeners are all invited.
Harry’s friends will be Pete and Joan Wernick!
Pete Wernick, “Dr. Banjo” of Hot Rize fame, and his singer-guitarist wife Joan are one of bluegrass music’s most appealing and enduring performing couples. Joan’s clear, soulful singing and Pete’s masterful picking bring life to a diverse repertoire including traditional bluegrass, vocal duets and blazing instrumentals. In the early ‘70s the pair performed with the groundbreaking progressive bluegrass band Country Cooking, based in Ithaca, New York. Since 1976 they have lived in Niwot, Colorado, and have known Harry Tuft all that time. They are both members of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame and the Colorado Bluegrass Hall of Honor.
“Dr. and Nurse Banjo” have performed as a duet all over the continental US as well as in England, Ireland, Russia, Hawaii, Israel, Holland, the Czech Republic, and on national TV in Denmark, as well as a special appearance on the David Letterman show with Steve Martin and Earl Scruggs. Pete and Joan also work together in presenting Pete’s long-running Bluegrass Camps at Merlefest and other locations around the US.