We hope our rendition of “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” perks you up today!
Even before Rudolph became the popular “hero” of the classic Christmas story, I liked him the best out of all of the reindeers. He was my favorite one right from the beginning of the tale. It kind of ticked me off, though, that his peers didn't start being nice to him until he saved the day… Ugh!!!
So please, be kind to others always, not just when it benefits you.
We hope you enjoy this Christmas carol that features Ricie Eubanks’ beautiful Irish penny whistle... “O Little Town of Bethlehem” + “Inisheer.”
“Inisheer” is a Celtic tune that I learned by ear at the Irish sessions that I grew up attending in downtown Augusta. I would go home humming this melody, but didn’t really think to play it for myself while I was a teenager. (I was busy pickin’ lots of other fun songs!) Through the years, I would catch myself humming it again from time to time. Finally around age 29, I put my pen to manuscript paper, wrote out sheet music of what I remembered of this tune, and told my band, “I’ve got a cool, old Celtic song for us to play!” We all love to play it anytime of the year, and when it’s Christmastime, Mom loves to pair it with one of her forever favorite carols from her childhood days, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”
Please continue to pray for Mom. She has been battling a lot of pain this past weekend. But we are doing the best we can to combat it, and we are praying and believing for The Lord to renew her strength. Thank you for joining your love & prayers with ours.
We pray that you all have a peaceful week as we get closer to Christmas Day!
We hope your holiday season is going well.
We are happy to announce that our brand new Christmas DVD has arrived. Let us know if you are interested in it. (You can send me an e-mail at eryneubanks@me.com.)
We were thrilled to get this project done and combine new favorites (like the song above, “Mary’s Boy Child”) with old songs we filmed for our first Christmas DVD 13-years ago. Big thanks to our friends at Nashville City Productions that brought all 30 songs together for us! They are the best when it comes to working on audio, film, and even bringing your old forms of media in to the digital world.
Don’t forget that you can get a good dose of what our new Christmas DVD is like by stopping by our YouTube channel. (Just search “Eubanks Family Fold” on YouTube.) We hope our music puts you in the holiday spirit!
And I save the best note for last... Today is Mom & Dad’s 38th Wedding Anniversary! I am proud of them, and so thankful to God for them.
Mom is so grateful for the prayers that you continue to say for her! Her goal for the new week is to start practicing some music. We’re looking forward to hearing her beautiful sound again.
This weekend would have been our annual trip to Dahlonega, GA to play music for our dear friends at St. Elizabeth’s Church. We especially miss them this weekend, and would like to send this Christmas carol out to them.
My grandfather & I were honored to contribute a song to the 33rd Annual “Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols” benefiting Sacred Heart Cultural Center. We hope you’ll be a part of this “virtual event.” Your purchase of a ticket will help Sacred Heart, and you will receive a link to tune in to the concert anytime you want. Call 706-826-4700 or go to www.sacredheartaugusta.org.
Mom wanted to give you an idea of what she’s looking like after 6-weeks since her surgery date.
So... We did go to the ER last week. We got there at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, and finally made it back home at 5:00 A.M. on Thursday. We were exhausted! Mom had experienced horrible head pains, sometimes referred to as “ice pick migraines.” Mom said she felt like she was having labor pains in her head! She was getting no relief or moment’s peace, so we told her that she needed to get checked out. The ER doctor said that it was “tension headaches,” and she did receive some medicine in an IV to help knock out that intense pain she had those past days. Mom now has a migraine medicine to take at home, so please pray that this pain will stay away. We don’t want any more trouble popping up! She has been doing good, and we are thankful to The Lord!
And we thank you all for praying for Mom.
“Masters Week” and Augusta, Georgia’s world famous golf tournament has been different due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, but we are so proud to see them still carry on with it!
Our band wanted to share with you what “Masters Week” would usually be like for us. We are missing the music and our friends this year, but we are prayerfully looking forward to more fun times together, Good Lord willing... And I believe He is!
It became a “Masters Week” tradition for me to sing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” for our friend, Mr. Tom.
The photo above is what The Family Fold’s living room would look like every night of “Masters Week.”
The photo above is our band playing for the golf tournament guests flying in at the airport.
Saturday, November 11th, 2017 at Hammond’s Ferry (North Augusta, SC)... A spur-of-the-moment video captured on an iPhone.
I was so surprised and honored to be asked by Andy Leftwich & Keith Sewell to play a song with them... And what a bonus treat to play this mandolin that originally belonged to Ricky Skaggs!
Eryn & Ricie - November 2015 - What a fun church carnival that our band provided the music for!
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Parler, MeWe... We even remember the old days of MySpace. Social media is a powerful tool, but don’t forget that the #1 place to find out about The Family Fold is our official website, eryneubanks.com. And the best way to stay informed about our band is to sign up for our e-newsletter. I am happy to deliver the latest to your inbox on a regular basis. You can sign up for our e-newsletter on our website, or you can e-mail me at eryneubanks@me.com, or you can leave a comment here. Social media platforms change through the years, but I have managed our band’s website & e-newsletter for the past 19-years, and I hope/plan/pray to do that until the day I go to Heaven! Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your blessings; and thank all of y’all for being a part of what we do.
Mom came home from the hospital on Friday afternoon... And I have been busy ever since, haha! I apologize for not getting the word out sooner. My one track mind has been focused on playing nurse. We are happy to have Mom home, and we are so grateful for all of you praying for us during this time. Please continue to pray for Mom over the next few months as she heals from this surgery. Thanks again for every prayer!
Songs from the 2008 “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold Music Festival.” Grammy award winning mandolinist, Mike Compton, accompanies The Family Fold on the country classic, “In The Jailhouse Now;” and Eryn Eubanks’ original song, “Don’t Fall In Love With Me.” Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold also perform “Wayfaring Stranger.”
On Saturday, June 14th, 2008, the first “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold Music Festival” was held with over 1000 people attending from the Southeast region. All proceeds benefited Lynndale, Inc., an organization founded in 1952 that helps those with developmental disabilities.
Mayor Deke Copenhaver also proclaimed that Saturday, June 14th, 2008 was “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold Day” in Augusta, GA.
These videos were taken from “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold’s TV Show,” which broadcasted for 4-years every week in the Central Savannah River Area of Augusta, GA.
Outro Music - “Hawk’s Gulley,” written by: Eryn Eubanks.
Eryn Eubanks talks about coming boldly before God’s throne of grace in prayer, how Jesus is our high priest who understands us, and how there is nothing that we can say or do that would cause God to stop loving us or wanting fellowship with us.
We were thankful to read that we were voted
2nd Place for “Local Bluegrass Band”and
2nd Place for “Local Christian Band” in
Augusta Magazine’s “Best of Augusta 2020” contest. Congratulations to everyone mentioned in the magazine! Our band is very grateful to be thought of and voted for.
We are honored to be Nashville City Productions’ “Featured Artist.” They are the wonderful people who have duplicated our CDs and DVDs through the years. You don’t have to have a band to take advantage of their amazing services, though. Check out their specials below and what all they can do for you. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have your old photographs, videos, and tapes preserved digitally? They can do it! That would be fabulous for the holidays, you know. A priceless gift... Christmas time’s a-comin’... Oh, and so is our NEW Christmas DVD that they’re putting together for us!
The Family Fold & I were honored to “virtually” provide the music for our church family in Dahlonega, GA this morning. Here is the link to the entire service from Saint Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church. Every minute of it is a blessing!
Please hold my mom in your prayers over these next few months. She has “cervical spine compression,” and will have surgery on the morning of Wednesday, October 28th.
It all started with her “self diagnosis of a frozen shoulder,” and she just accepted that she had less function in her left arm. This past March, her leg started giving her problems, with pain from her hip down to her shins. So she went to the doctor, and instead of a reference to pain management, she was sent to a neurosurgeon. The first person to give Mom a thorough exam was an old coworker of hers, so that was a ray of sunshine. After that exam, Mom had an MRI, and that is when we found out that she has pretty significant compression in her cervical spine (C3-C7). The doctor said that if she didn’t have surgery for it, it could cause further loss of function, and eventually paralysis.
The surgery may last up to 6-hours. They will go through her neck to do an “anterior cervical discectomy with fusion and plates, C3-C7,” then flip her over to do a “posterior fusion and plates, C3-T1.”
The healing time after the surgery will be about 3-months, and she will be in a neck brace for the first 6-weeks. Please pray that all of this will go well for her, and that The Lord will anoint her medical team. Please pray that there will be no complications, and that there won’t be any problems as this surgery is happening very near her larynx/vocal cords. We want Mom to continue to be able to play her beautiful penny whistle and sing with us. We love her so much!
The bottom right photo is a sneak peak of Mom’s upcoming “fall fashion accessory.” Seriously and sincerely, we thank you all for caring and praying for us.
Songs from the 2008 “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold Music Festival.” Grammy award winning mandolinist, Mike Compton, accompanies The Family Fold on country classics “Slowly,” “You Are My Sunshine,” “I’m So Afraid of Losing You Again,” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart.”
On Saturday, June 14th, 2008, the first “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold Music Festival” was held with over 1000 people attending from the Southeast region. All proceeds benefited Lynndale, Inc., an organization founded in 1952 that helps those with developmental disabilities.
Mayor Deke Copenhaver also proclaimed that Saturday, June 14th, 2008 was “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold Day” in Augusta, GA.
These videos were taken from “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold’s TV Show,” which broadcasted for 4-years every week in the Central Savannah River Area of Augusta, GA.
Intro Music - “New York Minute,” written by: Eryn Eubanks; Outro Music - “Hawk’s Gulley,” written by: Eryn Eubanks.
Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold perform “I’ll Fly Away” with Charlotte Ritchie.
Charlotte is such a kind lady and a wonderful vocalist who has sung all over the world with Southern Gospel legends like The Nelons, Jeff & Sherri Easter, and the Gaither Gospel Homecoming Series. We were honored to have her sing at our music festival.
On Saturday, June 14th, 2008, the first “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold Music Festival” was held with over 1000 people attending from the Southeast region. All proceeds benefited Lynndale, Inc., an organization founded in 1952 that helps those with developmental disabilities.
Mayor Deke Copenhaver also proclaimed that Saturday, June 14th, 2008 was “Eryn Eubanks & The Family Fold Day” in Augusta, Georgia.
Eryn Eubanks talks about the grace and truth we have through Jesus Christ (Augusta Canal - 2008).