Kate Campbell, master storyteller and highly acclaimed singer/songwriter, from Nashville, Tenn. will be the featured performer at the Brundidge Historical Society’s June Buggin’ & Barbecue at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4 at the We Piddle Around Theater in Brundidge.

Tickets are $20 and include the performance and a barbecue supper and are available by calling 334-685-5524 or 670-6302.

“We are extremely excited to feature Kate Campbell at June Buggin,’” said Lawrence Bowden, BHS president. “We like to say our June Buggin’ events are as unpredictable and magical as the flight of a June bug. And Kate Campbell’s performance will be magical.”

The June Buggin’ events are usually ladies’ luncheons but not this time. And for a couple of reasons.

Members of the storytelling committee heard Kate Campbell at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn. in October and were so impressed by her performance that her name was put at the top of the June Buggin’ list.

“We first heard Kate Campbell, who is a preacher’s daughter and originally from Sledge, Miss., at the Friday night olio where each teller was on stage for 10 minutes,” said BHS member Mernette Bray. “On Saturday, we went to Kate Campbell’s hour-long performance, and the tent was packed — 1,200 people, and she got a standing ovation.”

Bray said Campbell is such a versatile performer – storyteller/singer/songwriter/ musician — that she will appeal men as well as women.

“Also, we wanted to participate in the state’s Year of the Barbecue promotion,” Bray said. “So, we’re having barbecue rather than chicken salad.”

Kate Campbell’s gift for storytelling has been compared to that of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner. She also has command of a full-range of American music styles. Two of her albums have earned “Folk Album of the Year” nominations from the Nashville Music Awards.

She has recorded in Muscle Shoals with noted musicians including Shoals ace David Hood and legendary Spooner Oldham. Emmylou Harris lends harmony on Campbell’s “Alabama Department of Corrections Medication Blues.”

Campbell has played around the globe from Merlefest in North Carolina to the prestigious Cambridge Folk Festival in England to the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Australia.

“We are excited to have someone of Kate Campbell’s talents at the We Piddle Around Theater,” Bray said. “We are looking forward to a great night of June Buggin’ and Barbecue.”