The bluegrass/folk group, Fresh Cut Grass, will perform on Trenton on Saturday, Oct. 11 as part of the Grundy County Friends of the Arts 2003-2004 program.
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The bluegrass/folk group, Fresh Cut Grass, will perform on Trenton on Saturday, Oct. 11 as part of the Grundy County Friends of the Arts 2003-2004 program.
Husband and wife team Ann and Terry Brock of St. Joseph will bring their unique style of music to the Wesley United Methodist Church in a 7 p.m. performance. Admission is free to Friends of the Arts season ticketholders and North Central Missouri College students. General admission is $5. Season tickets will be available for purchase the evening of the performance. A schedule of the Friends of the Arts 2003-2004 season programs will also be available.
Ms. Brock, who sings lead and harmony vocals as well as plays guitar, grew up around old-time, traditional music, attending the frequent square dances hosted by her family, with her great uncles and grandmother playing guitar, fiddle and piano. She began her career in music as a teenager when she was hired to sing lead and harmony vocals with a traveling country music show. During college she performed at the Country Junction Amphitheater at the Worlds of Fun Theme Park in Kansas City and at Tiffany?s Attic Dinner Playhouse, also in Kansas City.
After earning a degree in English she worked in radio as a disc jockey for KFEQ-AM Radio in St Joseph and for WDAF-AM Radio in Kansas City while also singing lead and harmony vocals on a country music show in Kansas. After moving to St. Joseph, she began singing, dancing and acting in musicals for the Ice House Theatre, Robidoux Resident Theatre and Missouri Western State College and worked on the set of the movie “Ride With the Devil.” Ms. Brock has sung the National Anthem for Royals Baseball games at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. She also currently does a radio program for WDAF-AM Radio in Westwood, KS.
Brock, who plays the fiddle as well as provides vocals, won the Kansas State Fiddlers? championship at age 14 and immediately began performing with a traveling country music show in Missouri. He also played in various bands in dance halls and other venues before joining the Worlds of Fun Theme Park musicians at the Country Junction Amphitheater in Kansas City. While in Kansas City he also did session work for local ad agencies and performers, and for The Rep?s production of “The Foreigner.” After moving to St. Joseph, Brock began teaching Suzuki violin at Missouri Western State College, where he also became the youth orchestra conductor and joined the St. Joseph Symphony. He published a book of old-time fiddle tunes in 1993 and received the Outstanding Graduating Senior-Instrumental Music Award from MWSC in 1994. He is increasingly in demand as a producer and studio musician, and can be heard on recordings by such artists as Pat and Debbie Boone and Steve Walsh of the group Kansas, and commercial works for Better Homes and Gardens and Hallmark Cards. He has arranged and produced several recordings for Kindermusik International. Brock is known for his versatility on the fiddle – playing country, bluegrass, traditional, jazz, rock, and classical music.
The Brocks are accomplished vocalists, musicians and songwriters whose performances have taken them to over 25 states and Russia and every conceivable venue, and whose music has been heard on radio stations from Tennessee to British Columbia. They have shared the stage with such internationally acclaimed artists as Bill Monroe, Steve Spurgin, Eddie Rabbitt, Martina McBride, Lee Ann Womack and even REO Speedwagon. Their traditional and contemporary folk, bluegrass and original music is performed with energy and style, and is leaving its own unique mark on America?s new golden age of acoustic music.