Roots music singers and players will perform a benefit concert for mandolin player Butch Baldassari on Oct. 22.
An all-star cast of roots music singers and players will perform a benefit concert for Butch Baldassari, a respected Nashville musician, record producer and adjunct associate professor of mandolin at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, who is battling cancer.
The concert begins at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22. Tickets cost $50 and patron tickets will be sold for $125. All proceeds will go to Baldassari and his family.
Baldassari has taught mandolin at Blair since 1996. He is a former member of the bands Weary Hearts and Lonesome Standard Time. His current projects include the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble, which he founded in 1991.
“Butch is a fantastic mandolin player,” said Matt Combs, one of the concert organizers and adjunct instructor in fiddling at Blair. “This is a community where people band together for their friends who are hurting, so that’s what we’re doing.”
Tickets for the show are being sold at Gruhn Guitars at 400 Broadway in downtown Nashville, and will be made available at www.mandolincafe.com. Online donations are being accepted at that Web site.
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