Falon Lewis felt no fear when she and her friends Michelle Boyd and Megan Boyd debuted as Black and Blue, a country-metal power trio. The Robert Frost Middle School students were ready to rock.
“I was happy that we were finally doing something, because we were practicing down in my basement for two months,” Falon said.
Falon, a metal fan, and the Boyds, who both like Tim McGraw and other country acts, concluded their first show with Green Day’s “I Walk Alone” on the stage at Ron and Joan Furman’s Query Mill Road home on Saturday, Oct. 1. Black and Blue was one of three acts performing in a talent show that concluded a carnival at the Furman’s home, where $4,000 in proceeds went to Red Cross disaster relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina victims.
The carnival featured attractions as elaborate as casino games and carnival rides, or ones as simple as games of horseshoes or a pair of black cats that were favorites of children at the fair.
Dawn and Kevin Gordon moved from Potomac to Frederick earlier this year, but they came back to Potomac last Saturday for the event. While Kevin Gordon took on his friend Scott Siger in a game of croquet, Dawn Gordon said, “We wanted to help and support the cause … and have a good time.”