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Show Bluegr ass at Egyptian Saturday appeared on national television televi-sion last fall in a special Thanksgiving program produced pro-duced by the LDS Church. The group has also been featured at a number of Utah Bluegrass shows and festivals. festi-vals. Members include 11 -year-old Ryan Shupe on fiddle, 13-year-old Matt Flinner on banjo, 12-year-old Will Hales on mandolin, 13-year-old Carl Bullock on guitar and 16-year-old Ron Child on bass. "The Silver Creek String Band" has been a musical , fixture in the Park City area for a number of years, appearing at a variety of shows including the Park City Bluegrass Festival and the North Summit Bluegrass Festival. The band features the Iddling and guitar-playing :alents of young Daniel Bates of Wanship; the banjo work of his dad, David Bates; the vocal and bass playing skills of Nancy Sheurman of Wanship; and guitarist-vocalist Rick Weber. America's newest pure musical form,- Bluegrass emerged as a distinct musical musi-cal form in the United States shortly after World War II through the efforts of the legendary performer Bill Monroe. But while the form may be new, the roots of Bluegrass go back hundreds )f years in American and European folk music, deriving deriv-ing from many styles inducing induci-ng Appalachian songs, -1 southern blues, Irish fiddle music, gospel tunes, coastal "hill music" and traditional country. ' An "Evening of Blue-grass" Blue-grass" music will fill Park City's "Egyptian Theater" with the down-home sound of American traditional music mu-sic Saturday at 8 p.m. The concert will feature three of Utah's most entertaining enter-taining Bluegrass bands including a hot-picking new ensemble from Logan called "Bunchgrass," America's youngest professional Blue-grass Blue-grass band "The PeeWee Pickers" and' Park City's own "Silver Creek String Band." Presented by Park City Performances and Bluegrass West of Ogden, the 2xh hour show will treat concert-goers to a wide variety of Blue-grass Blue-grass music as well as some toe-tapping western swing. Both musical forms are deeply rooted in America's cultural heritage and are the only types of music to originate in the United States besides jazz. Admission io an Evening of Bluegrass" will be $5 for adults and $3 for children. There will be a $1 discount for Park City Performances members. "Bunchgrass" is Utah's fastest-rising Bluegrass and swing band, combining the skills of some of the Intermountain West's finest instrumental musicians with mellow vocals and sensitive treatments of tunes that have become American classics. In addition to traditional and contemporary Bluegrass songs, the band performs a broad selection of swing tunes ranging from the complex but compelling "Dawg Music" of David Grisman to classics by Django Rinehart and both traditional and western swing numbers. Band members include John White of Michigan, who is widely regarded as one of Utah's finest guitarists; guitar-ists; Mike Iverson of Brig-ham Brig-ham City, a multi-talented instrumentalist who plays mandolin and adds a fine traditional sound to the group; Avram Siegel, a gifted banjoist who recently migrated to Utah from the Bay area; Tom Dean, guitarist guitar-ist and lead vocalist; and Andy Keller, an exciting bass player who combines traditional Bluegrass. styl-ings styl-ings with jazz playing. "The PeeWee Pickers" may be young in years -- but they're old in experience. The talented group of youngsters young-sters toured the United States last summer, performing perform-ing at the World's Fair in Knoxville and appearing at several major Bluegrass festivals fes-tivals back east. In addition, the group performed on television in Nashville, Tenn., and also |