New Year's Eve with Acoustic Syndicate

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by Molly Kummerle
on Thursday, December 08, 2011

2012 is shaping up to be a truly monumental year for Acoustic Syndicate. The seminal western North Carolina folk-rock fusion band will be celebrating their 20th Anniversary with a brand new CD, a full tour and a very special concert highlighting their 20 years of making music together. Come join them in kicking the year off right for New Year's Eve at the Grey Eagle Tavern and Music Hall.

Acoustic Syndicate was born in December, 1977 when Joe and Fitzhugh McMurry, a couple of brothers from Cleveland County, NC got together and decided to get their kids bluegrass instruments for Christmas that year. The kids were brothers Fitz Jr. and Bryon McMurry, and their cousin Steve McMurry. Fitzie, as he was known back then, got a Gibson Hummingbird guitar. Bryon got an Eagle banjo and Steve got a fiddle from Sears & Roebuck. All were excited and happy. The trio was nicknamed the "The Maple Creek Three" by Fitzhugh Sr. They learned a few songs, mostly church songs from the Methodist hymnal, and threw in a couple of country and bluegrass numbers and before long they were playing whenever they could mostly serving at the pleasure of the parents at family gatherings and church functions. Joe and Fitzhugh, taking great delight in the results of their scheme, had unwittingly laid the foundation of what was to become Acoustic Syndicate. The boys spent the remainder of their childhood and adolescence singing, playing, living and working together on the family farm in Cleveland County.

Saturday, December 31, 2011. 9pm.
$20 advance / $25 day of show.
Advance tickets available online and at our local outlets: www.thegreyeagle.com/
The Grey Eagle
185 Clingman Ave, Asheville, NC 28801
828-232-5800