Al Petteway & Amy White

October  14   7:30 pm, no potluck
October 15    3:00 matinee, no potluck
Suggested donation, $20

Grammy-Winning Guitarist, Indie-Award Winning Duo Contemporary Celtic- & Appalachian-Influenced Acoustic Groove.

Back for their 5th Streamside weekend for 2 performances. 

Award-winning, critically acclaimed, passionate and playful, Al & Amy offer an intoxicating blend of musical styles. Their repertoire includes original, traditional, contemporary Celtic- and Appalachian-influenced music with occasional nods to rock and jazz. Their performances feature acoustic guitar, mandolin, Celtic harp, piano, banjo, lap dulcimer, world percussion, and a touch of vocals.

Before moving from the Washington, DC area to the mountains of Western North Carolina, Al & Amy won 50 WAMMIE Awards from the Washington Area Music Association. In addition, they were awarded 5 separate grants from the Maryland State Arts Council for both music composition and instrumental performance. They won an INDIE from The Association for Independent Music, and Al won a GRAMMY from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Al was voted one of the Top 50 Guitarists of all time by the readers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine and in 2008 he won Silver and Bronze medals in the magazine’s “Players’ Choice Awards.”

Al & Amy’s music was featured throughout the soundtrack of the 2009 Ken Burns EMMY-winning documentary, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, and part of many more, including Baseball: The Tenth Inning, Prohibition, The Dust Bowl, and The Roosevelts. Their album, Caledon Wood, (which includes the main theme of the National Parks documentary) was counted among the essential albums of the past 20 years in the Acoustic Guitar Magazine 20th anniversary issue.

“High in the Blue Ridge,” Al & Amy’s recording of Appalachian- and Celtic-inspired melodies, was released in early 2011. And they each released solo CDs in 2012. Al’s is a solo acoustic project featuring Fingerstyle Blues titled “It’s Only the Blues” and Amy’s features her original songs and is titled “Home, Sweet Home.” In 2014, Al released “Mountain Guitar – A Musical Portrait of the Appalachian Mountains” and in 2015,  the long-awaited “Dream Guitars, Vol. II – Hand Picked” was released. In 2016, “Didn’t We Waltz” spotlights Amy’s deeply evocative vocals and lyrics and features both Amy’s and Al’s instrumental work, with support from Sally Van Meter on slide guitar and Sally Sparks on Continuum Fingerboard