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Steamboat Springs — For the past few years, Graham Geppert has played bass in rock bands with his peers, taking to the Teen Battle of the Bands stage and eliciting raucous applause and a couple of mosh pits.

For the past few months, Geppert has been stepping onto a different type of stage, joining his father, Paul Geppert, and two other musicians in a traditional bluegrass band called Cornbread.

"He's grown up around me, so he's been influenced by all the acoustic music that I've played over the years," Paul Geppert said. Paul and Graham Geppert play with Cornbread at 7 p.m. Saturday at The Mugshot in Oak Creek. Admission is $3 at the door.

Cornbread had their first public appearance in early May at the seventh annual Great North Routt Chili Cook-off. Event organizers had asked Paul Geppert - who also performs regularly in North Routt and across the county with the bluegrass band 3Wire - to put together a group.

"We figured it would go well with chili," Scott Kirton, Cornbread's banjo player, said about the band's name.

Bass player Denton Turner brings a North Carolina upbringing to the band's traditional mountain sound, Paul Geppert said. Kirton has a background in gospel music and said many of the traditional bluegrass tunes he plays have some roots in that style.

Kirton lives in Oak Creek and has been trying to get live music and jam sessions going for a while, he said. The Mugshot owner Jane Sindell has offered her store space for a few jam sessions, Kirton said.

"My story down here is that Jane has been really supportive and let me organize jams to conduct over there at the coffee shop, and we haven't had a whole lot of success. So part of this is to play there to keep the dream alive," Kirton said. Because The Mugshot is a coffee shop and not a bar, families are welcome to attend, he said.

The Geppert father-and-son duo had played together around the house, but Cornbread is their first collaboration in a band.

"It's been a hoot," Paul Geppert said. "Really, it gives me great pleasure to be able to do this with him because he's going to be going to college in the fall."

Graham Geppert has agreed to come home for a weekend from the University of Colorado at Boulder if Cornbread has a big gig, Paul Geppert said. Still, the band might be in the market for a new guitar player sometime soon, he said.