Butternut Creek and Friends is a folk group from the north Georgia mountains. The group's brand of music is eclectic--blues, old standards, and popular songs as well as traditional folk songs from the mountain region. Each tune bears its happy stamp, as you can hear by clicking the player button on the top right of this page.

To the guitar, banjo, and autoharp they add harmonious voices and an assortment of unusual folk instruments including the flute, clarinet, doumbec, whistles, spoons, and ukulele.

The "Butternuts" perform regularly at the Campbell Folk School and the Union County Courthouse and can be heard in concerts throughout north Georgia and western North Carolina. The very talented group performs for fun and gives the money it earns from concerts away. The fees for concerts, festivals, and parties pay for the recordings and the proceeds from the recordings go to charities such as Wilderness Scouts, the S.A.F.E. shelter for battered women, Habitat for Humanity, the Georgia Mountain Arboretum, and the Union County Courthouse Restoration Project.

Butternut Creek and Friends is, in short, a group that tries to give back all that it receives from the mountain community that is its home, a place where, as one song puts it, "the blossoms are a-bloomin' and music fills the air." Members of the group are Jennifer Cordier (a grower and a member of the Union County Farmers Market Committee), Don Cordier, Steve Harvey, Brenda Hull and Laurie and John Simpson.

You can see more photos of the group and learn about their recordings by visiting www.ButternutCreekandFriends.com . If you would like for Butternut Creek and Friends to play for your local venue or for a private party, contact them at ivylog@windstream.net.