The Carper Family

FAIRBANKS — Look again. That’s the Carper Family, not Carter Family. The Carter Family was around in the 1950s and ’60s was then considered the most famous family in country music. But having a similar name is just the beginning of the fun with the Carper Family, a trio of singing and picking women from Austin, Texas. “People do notice a resemblance even though we’re not quite as folky,” fiddler and former Fairbanks resident Beth Chrisman laughed. “We’re more bluegrass and country than the Carter Family was.”