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Wiseapple Plays Banner Elk Thursday

Acoustic String Band Closes the Summer Concert Season

Banner Elk’s last Summer Concerts in the Park for 2007 presents Wiseapple on Thursday, August 23. The concert will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Tate Evans Park band shell. You don’t want to miss the final concert of the summer.

This week's co-sponsor is The Headwaters at Banner Elk, a gated mountaintop community on 880 acres adjacent to the Pisgah National Forest that offers homesites and villas, hiking, lakes, swimming, waterfalls, creeks, clubhouse and underground utilities on private, long-range view lots. For info, click to www.headwatersnc.com or call 828-733-8687 and ask for David Haynes.

Wiseapple is an acoustic string band from Boone that proudly continuing in the bluegrass tradition of Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers and Flatt and Scruggs. The band plays a mix of standard classics and original compositions featuring tight vocal harmonies and impressive musicianship.

Formed in 1999, the group consists of Jon Hill on mandolin and vocals, Tim Marsh on guitar and vocals, Ben McPherron on bass fiddle and Brian Swenk on banjo. In addition to bluegrass, the group enjoys arranging numbers by jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, as well as playing songs by important songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young. No matter what style of music Wiseapple chooses to play, the group takes care to create fresh arrangements that have an original sound bearing their distinctive signature.

As during all the summer concerts, Carolina Bar-b-que will be available for purchase.

In case of rain, the concert will be held in the elementary school gym. For more info, call the Banner Elk Chamber of Commerce at 828-898-8395.

Want To Go?

What: Summer Concert in the Park
Date: Thursday, August 23
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Tate-Evans Park, Banner Elk
Cost: Free