New Appalachian music performers set to play at TFAC amphitheater Thursday

Published 8:00 am Wednesday, May 23, 2018

New Appalachian duo Zoe & Cloyd will perform at the Tryon Fine Arts Center’s Sunset Series on Thursday at 7 p.m.

Hailing from opposite ends of the Appalachian mountains, husband-and-wife duo Zoe & Cloyd features fiddler and vocalist Natalya Zoe Weinstein and songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist John Cloyd Miller.

Coming from a line of klezmer and jazz musicians, Weinstein trained classically in her home state of Massachusetts while Miller, a 12th generation North Carolinian, is the grandson of pioneering bluegrass fiddler Jim Shumate. Founding members of the Americana trio, Red June, and long-time veterans of the Asheville music scene, the couple shifted to their duet project after the birth of their daughter in 2015.

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Zoe and Cloyd will perform in the Peterson Amphitheater as the sun sets over the Blue Ridge Mountains behind Tryon Fine Arts Center.

The Sunset Series is sponsored by the Plume Family Foundation. More information about Tryon Fine Arts Center and the Sunset Series is available at www.tryonart.org.

Submitted by Michelle Fleming