The Familiar Strangers

* Sunday, July 9, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Smiley’s Saloon presents The Familiar Strangers

The Familiar Strangers play an Americana grab bag of music from western swing to country, bluegrass, folk, blues and even a little bit of gypsy jazz!

They always generate a big response from audiences with their friendly banter and responsiveness to requests from audience members, and can easily move between material designed to get you up on your feet dancing or tugging at your heart to buy another beer and lose your sorrows.

Their musical palette runs from American roots music to styles of Western swing, classic country, country and blues based rock and more! Imagine John Hiatt gets in a car with Chuck Berry and they pick up a hitch hiking Dolly Parton! It’s kinda like that!

Familiar Strangers is:

• Candy Girard – fiddle & vocals
• Tim Sarter – bass & vocals
• Kevin Russell – guitar & vocals

  And our occasional Strangers

• Joe Craven – mandolin, vocals and percussion
• Sean Allen – lap steel guitar, standard guitar, vocals