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This Week in FREE Live Music

Compiled by David Brewer

Banner Elk Concerts in the Park

6:00 p.m.
828-898-8395
7/3 The King Bees
www.myspace.com/thekingbeesblues

Founded in 1987 by guitarist/organist Rob “Hound Dog” Baskerville and singer-song-writer and bassist Penny “Queen Bee” Zamagni, The King Bees cut their teeth traveling to Mississippi and other distant corners of the Deep South to learn first-hand from real-deal blues artists. The band honed their skills sitting in with and backing up many blues titans including the recently deceased Bo Diddley, Tinsley Ellis, Billy Branch, Mojo Buford, Big Jack Johnson, Sam Carr, Frank Frost, Lazy Lester and Ronnie Earl.

The show is sponsored by The Headwaters, a masterfully designed 880-acre mountain community offering pristine mountain views and four ridgelines protected and bordered by the Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests. Within the staffed gated entrance, you will find home sites, villas, cottages and first-class amenities only 12 minutes from downtown Banner Elk. The best of modern communication technology is offered by fiber optic cabling to each home. Clubhouse amenities include swimming, theatre, fitness, spa, tennis and hiking. Home sites range from the $150s to the $400s. Turnkey package private cottages range from the $330s to the $550s. Visit The Headwaters Information Office in town or drive to our Welcome Center. Call 828-733-8687 or click to www.headwatersnc.com to watch a 6-minute video.

Jones House Concerts on the Lawn

Friday at 1:00 p.m.
828-264-1789
7/4 Southern Accent/Watauga Community Band/Steve & Ruth Smith/Beech Mountain Echoes/Steve Kruger & Friends
www.watauga-arts.org

The Jones House Community Center celebrates its centennial as a fixture of downtown Boone this Friday, July 4, with an afternoon full of music from some of the area’s favorite sons and daughters. Steve Kruger & Friends will be aboard the Jones House float during the parade playing some old-time music.

Following a round of stories from parade Grand Marshal Orville Hicks, bluegrass gospel group Southern Accent will take the stage at 2:00 p.m., followed by a program of patriotic favorites performed by The Watauga Community Band at 3:00 p.m. Beech Mountain Echoes will deliver a dose of local traditional music at 4:30 p.m. followed by mountain Celtic music makers Steve and Ruth Smith.

Valle Crucis Music in the Park

7:00 p.m.
828-963-6511, ext. 243
7/4 Jeff & Benares
www.jeffandbenares.com

Jeff Angeley and Benares Finan-Eshelman write and perform acoustic music that is at once steeped in tradition and exciting and new. Their songs sing the human experience with a distinctly American accent. They can be humorous at times and melancholy at others. They are jubilant in places, touching in others, often profound and sometimes silly. Whether they are performing as a duo or a larger group, playing traditional Appalachian music or their own finely crafted original songs, they are lively, soulful, and captivating.

Todd Summer Music Series

Walter & Annie Cook Memorial Park
Saturday, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
7/5 Wayne Henderson & Helen White
www.waynehenderson.com

Wayne Henderson’s top-notch finger-picking is a source of great pleasure and pride to his friends, family, and neighbors in Grayson County, Va. His guitar playing has also been enjoyed at Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of “Masters of the Steel-String Guitar,” and in seven nations in Asia. In addition to his reputation as a guitarist, Henderson is a luthier of great renown. He is a recipient of a 1995 National Heritage Award presented by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Junior Appalachian Musicians program founder Helen White has been receiving much notice in recent years, championing the cause of mountain music. In addition to her teaching skills, White is an accomplished singer and fiddler.