Honey Dewdrops return to Hamden

HAMDEN — Connecticut — and especially stages booked by Chris Wuerth’s GuitartownCT Productions — is like a second home for The Honey Dewdrops, who will perform Friday night in their sixth GuitartownCT concert and second at Best Video Film & Cultural Center.

Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20, available in advance at guitartownct.com.

The Honey Dewdrops — the husband-and-wife duo of Kagey Parrish and Laura Wortman — have become recurring, seasonal visitors to the area over the past few years, bringing their “high and lonesome” southern harmonies to shows at several different area folk

music venues.

Now in their ninth year of touring full time as The Honey Dewdrops, Parrish and Wortman have played stages and festivals across North America, as well as in Europe.

They offer tight harmonies and beautiful, heartfelt, bluegrass-influenced music on clawhammer banjo, mandolin and guitars.

Wortman and Parrish both are former teachers

who met and married while living in their home state of Virginia. They now live in Baltimore.

Parrish and Wortman play and sing acoustic folk music from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, blending and weaving their formidable voices and nicely spun stories with guitars, banjo and mandolin.

They write and perform songs full of characters and images from the people they’ve met and the places they’ve been.

They have been touring almost nonstop since the release of their first album,

“If The Sun Will Shine,” in 2009. Their 2010 release, “These Old Roots,” was the top-ranked album on the Folk DJ Charts at one point. Their 2012 album, “Silver Lining,” also was released to rave reviews, followed by “Live From Folk Alley” and their 2015 release “Tangled Country.”

GuitartownCT Productions was started by Wuerth, of Hamden, in 2008 to bring top bluegrass and Americana performers to the area.