The Hoot Owls will be featured in the Noon Hour Concert from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Park Rapids.
With 100 years of combined musical experience, Dave Karam, guitar, and Dick Max, string bass and vocals, will perform an eclectic mix of roots, Americana and bluegrass music on traditional stringed instruments.
According to a press release, they cover many styles of folk music including cowboy songs and traditional gospel.
Karam picked up his first guitar around 50 years ago, the release states. He declares, “You are never too old to pick up an instrument and learn a tune, or you are never not good enough to sing a song.”
Max has played music since he was a toddler, the release states, and started playing bass in eighth grade. Starting in 1958, he played in a jazz/dance band called the Naturals and continued in the dance band and jazz genre as well as big band and light opera orchestras. Most recently, he played big band and praise music with Karam in a Minnesota folk/bluegrass band called Unpolished.
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