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Mountain Faith to play WCU

art mtnfaithJackson County-based bluegrass/gospel act Mountain Faith will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University.

The concert is presented by WCU’s Last Minute Productions. General admission tickets are $2 for students and $5 for the general public, or free with non-perishable food donations (two food items per ticket for students, five food items per ticket for the general public.) Donated food will be delivered to the Community Table or Jackson County United Christian Ministries to benefit local residents in need.

Mountain Faith, whose current album “That Which Matters” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard Magazine’s bluegrass chart, recently reached the semifinals of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” in which they performed live at Radio City Music Hall. The band features family patriarch Sam McMahan on bass, daughter Summer McMahan on fiddle and singing lead and harmony vocals, and son Brayden McMahan on banjo and providing harmony vocals, along with Luke Dotson on guitar and lead and harmony vocals, and Cory Piatt on mandolin.

The band’s debut album, 2011’s “Save Me,” won the Southern Gospel Music Association’s New Artists of the Year Award. Last month, Mountain Faith was named the 2015 group recipient of WCU’s Mountain Heritage Award.

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