The Cobbler Gobblers with Kent Lockman will perform on Thursday October 22, 2009 at the Strand.   The performance will start at 7:30pm.   Tickets are available at Mickey’s T-Mart,  Blue River Printing, and the Strand Theatre Box Office.   Tickets are $5.

Dishpan Pie has been performing traditional American folk music for 22 years. Band members Kent and Marianne Lockman, Dee Capozzi, and Craig Moorman performed publicly for the first time in a small dinner theater in February 1987 and then again at a folk festival in June of the same year. They all decided they liked the music and each other and remained the Once In Awhile Stringband until summer 2008. Craig Moorman’s busy schedule as a doctor forced him into semi-retirement.

Dee, Kent, and Marianne tightened up their old tunes and songs, added fresh new ones, and chose a new band name…Dishpan Pie. Dishpan Pie is an old southern chicken pot-pie recipe where one uses an enamelware dishpan as their baking dish. It’s definitely a delicious recipe that matches the old time flavor of Dishpan Pie’s music. For the recipe, email the band and they will get a copy to you. Let them know how your dishpan pie turned out!

Dishpan Pie performs with banjoist Linda Cabe and fiddler Joey Neal from North Carolina three or four times a year as the band… The Cobbler Gobblers. The musicians met in Norris, TN for six years before becoming a part-time band. They have appeared in Huntington, WV and played at the Mt. Airy, NC Fiddlers’ Convention for several years, and performed here in Indiana in October 2008.

In June 2008, The Cobbler Gobblers recorded a CD at Eastwood Studio in Virginia. The recording entitled Eat More Cobbler/Play More Tunes has 18 old-time mountain fiddle tunes and traditional songs. Kent, Marianne, and Dee did all the harmony vocals on the recording and usually perform them when in concert. CDs are available from Dishpan Pie for $13 postage paid. Just email or call the band to order your copy.

Dishpan Pie features both high energy instrumental dance tunes led by hammered dulcimer and fiddle, and songs with tight close harmonies that range from old to new, ballads to modern country. Dishpan Pie performs with spirit and humor expressing their respect and love for this old-time genre of American roots music. And they have as much fun performing the music as their audiences do hearing them play it.