'Sacred Steel' performance set

The Campbell Brothers will perform Sacred Steel: African-American gospel music with electric steel guitar and vocals at FivePine Lodge & Convention Center in Sisters, on Sunday evening, January 27.

The performance is the first of the Sisters Folk Festival's Winter Concert Series.

"This is some of the most stirring music you'll ever hear," said festival board chair Jim Cornelius. "Rock-and-roll energy and intensity with deep gospel roots. This is going to be a real experience."

Pedal steel guitarist Chuck Campbell (2004 National Heritage Fellowship recipient) and his lap steel-playing brother Darick are two of the finest players in this tradition. Rounding out the band, which has been playing together for nearly two decades, is a high-energy rhythm section.

The Campbell Brothers present a compelling, rich variety of material from the African-American Holiness-Pentecostal repertoire with a new twist: the growling, wailing, shouting, singing and swinging voice of the steel guitar

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Christopher Williams opens the show.

The show starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available at FivePine, Paulina Springs Books and at the door. For information call 549-4979.