The Borscht Belt and bluegrass music were never exactly synonymous, but, in their current tour as a musical-comedy duo, Steve Martin and Martin Short make the distance between the Catskills and the Appalachians seem a lot shorter. “Touring with Steve is a lot like the movie Deliverance: It’s all fun and games till the banjos come out,” said Short, which gave a good indication of what it might have been like back in the day if Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had occasionally used Flatt or Scruggs as a fill-in.

The duo’s very intermittent tour represents the closest thing to pure standup Martin has allowed himself to indulge in since he resumed live performing in 2009 after a 30-year layoff. Imagine seeing a full-length Hope and Crosby mutual-insult act with a few moments of blue garss sublimity wedged in the middle.

Come out for an evening you will forget for the rest of your life featuring the Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Babko.