June 5, 2008 issue
Free Summer Music Around the High Country
Compiled by David Brewer
Find your favorite blanket or lawn chair and throw it in the trunk of the car so you’ll be prepared to enjoy any one of the 50 free concerts taking place around the High Country this summer and into the fall. Many familiar performers will hit multiple stops on the summer circuit, while plenty of first-timers will make their warm weather debuts. Stay tuned to High Country Press for weekly updates and calendar listings.
Beech Mountain
Fred’s Summer Sunday Concerts
Fred’s General Mercantile
Sundays from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
7/13 Joe Shannon & The Mountainhome All Stars
7/20 The Cockman Family
7/27 Amantha Mill
8/3 Strictly Clean & Decent
8/10 Watauga Community Band
Blowing Rock
Blowing Rock Concerts in the Park
Memorial Park
Sundays at 4:00 p.m.
6/15 Buck Haggard
8/10 Grandfather Mountain Highland Fife & Drum Band
9/14 Hayes Graduate String Quartet
10/5 Die Rheinlanders
Boone
Watauga Arts Council’s Concerts on the Lawn
The Jones House
Fridays at 5:00 p.m.
6/6 Worthless Son-In-Laws/Rod Farthing
6/13 Lisa Baldwin & Dave Haney/Buck Nelson
6/20 Songwriter Showcase #1 with Monica Woodard/Nathan Taylor/Crys Matthews
6/27 Blue Notes Dixieland Jazz Band/Fiddlers’ Competition #1
7/4 Jones House Centennial Celebration with Southern Accent/Watauga Community Band/Steve & Ruth Smith/Beech Mountain Echoes
7/11 The Neighbors/Fiddlers’ Competition #2
7/18 The King Bees Duo
7/25 Lazybirds/Sugar Grove Sweet Talkers
8/1 Songwriter Showcase #2 with Jeff & Benares/Melissa Reaves/Jay Brown
8/8 Amantha Mill/Fiddlers’ Competition #3
8/15 Surefire Bluegrass Band
8/22 Echo Park/Jessica Presnell
8/29 Community Dance with the Elkville String Band
9/5 Barbershop Quartets/The Forget-Me-Nots
9/12 The Harris Brothers
9/19 Songwriter Showcase #3 with Deborah Jean Sheets/Shay Lovette/Matt Rue
9/26 Brian Yerman
Linville
Habitat Live After Five
Land Harbor Pavilion, Linville
Fridays from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
6/20 Ten Broek/Herb Greene & Herman Coffey
7/24 TBA
8/28 TBA
Todd
Todd Summer Music Series
Walter & Annie Cook Memorial Park
Saturdays from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
6/21 Amantha Mill
6/28 The Worthless Son-In-Laws
7/5 Wayne Henderson & Helen White (3:00 to 5:00 p.m.)
7/12 The Corklickers
7/19 Buck Haggard
7/26 Southern Accent
8/9 Doc Watson & Friends (3:00 to 7:00 p.m.)
Valle Crucis
Valle Crucis Music in the Park
Valle Crucis Park
Fridays at 7:00 p.m.
6/13 The Worthless Son-In-Laws
6/20 Kent Doobrow & The Other Brothers
6/27 Full Throttle Bluegrass
7/4 Jeff & Benares
7/11 Brian McGee & The Hollow Speed
7/18 Steve & Ruth Smith
7/25 The Rust Kings
8/1 Bob & Ellie with Patty
8/8 Children’s Sing-A-Long Night
8/15 The Blue Notes Dixieland Jazz Band
8/22 Full Throttle Bluegrass
8/29 The Forget-Me-Nots
9/5 Randy & Deborah Sheets
9/12 Ryan Cryder
A Bit of Music With Your Dinner?
Music at Local Restaurants
With restaurants opening their patios for diners to revel in the High Country’s cool summer nights, many of the area’s talented pickers and singers will be there to provide a delightful sonic backdrop to your meal.
Banner Elk Café
828-898-4040
6:00 to 10:00 p.m.
6/7 Jessie Smith
6/12 Melissa Reaves
6/14 The King Bees
6/21 Bob & Ellie
6/29 Jon Jon Davis & Friends
7/4 Jon Jon Davis & Friends
7/10 TBA
7/11 Jessie Smith
7/12 Bob & Ellie
7/18 Jessie Smith
7/19 Jon Jon Davis & Friends
7/25 Bob & Ellie
7/26 Jon Jon Davis & Friends
Highlands Blowing Rock
828-295-9683
Tuesdays: Klee Liles
6/6 What’s On Tap
6/20 Groove Gypsies
6/21 What’s On Tap
6/22 Luke & Tom
6/27 Rox Trio
6/28 Luke & Tom
Jackalope’s View
Soulful Sounds of Summer
Saturdays, July 5 to August 16
828-898-9004
Old Hampton Store
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
828-733-5213
6/7 Jon Jon Davis and The Boonetown Pickers
6/8 Boss Hawg
6/14 John Shuffler Band
6/15 The Major Sevens
6/21 John Shuffler Band
6/22 The Major Sevens
Makoto’s
Fridays & Saturdays (Weather Permitting)
828-264-7976
Great Summer Music That Isn’t Quite Free
The best things in life truly are free, but shelling out a few dollars to see music can be a good thing. Joe Shannon’s venerable Mountainhome Music Series is a guaranteed good time for the entire family, and the nominal fee charged at the St. John’s Episcopal Music Series helps keep up one of the High Country’s most historic churches.
Mountainhome Music Series
Blowing Rock School Auditorium
Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.
The cost is $12.50 in advance and $15 at the door.
6/7 David Johnson & The Dixie Dawn Band
6/14 Jamie Laval & Ashley Broder
6/21 The Cook Shack Community
7/5 Mountainhome Music Brass & Bluegrass Boys
7/19 The Circuit Riders
8/9 Little Windows
8/23 Puddingstone
8/31 Mountainhome Bluegrass Boys
10/4 Johnny Possum & Good Time Hootin’ Band
10/11 David Johnson & The Studio Band
10/18 Strictly Clean & Decent
11/25 Wayne Henderson & Friends
12/6 An Appalachian Christmas
St. John’s Episcopal Summer Concert Series
Valle Crucis
Sundays at 5:00 p.m.
The cost is $10 for adults; children under 12 attend free of charge.
7/6 The Carolina Brass
8/3 Summer Wind
9/7 The Southern Appalachian Chamber Singers
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