JUNE 18, 2009 ISSUE
This Week in Free Music
This week is the biggest yet for free music in the High Country. From local favorites Diana & Sarvis Ridge to award winning artist Michael Reno Harrell, there are no less than four stellar shows to keep your toes tapping all weekend long.
Blowing Rock
Blowing Rock Concerts in the Park
Memorial Park
Saturdays, 4:00 p.m.
6/20 Diana & Sarvis Ridge
Fresh off their win at the second annual HayesGrass band competition, Diana & Sarvis Ridge will return to Blowing Rock for a Saturday afternoon show in Memorial Park. Mixing fun and familiar bluegrass numbers with country originals, Diana & Sarvis Ridge are capable of appealing to a wide variety of listeners.
Boone
Watauga Arts Council Concerts on the Lawn
The Jones House
Fridays, 5:00 p.m.
6/19 Michael Reno Harrell/Rod Farthing
Michael Reno Harrell is an award winning songwriter, as well as a veteran storyteller and entertainer. His albums have topped the Americana Music Association charts and his natural knack for storytelling, in print, song and spoken word has earned him praise from not only the music community but from the literary and storytelling worlds as well. Harrell also won MerleFest’s prestigious Chris Austin Songwriting Contest.
Local singer-songwriter Rod Farthing will open the show.
The 2009 Concerts on the Lawn series is sponsored by Alpine Storage and Mast General Store. This week’s concert is sponsored by High Country Bank.
Valle Crucis
Music in the Valle
Valle Crucis Park
Fridays, 7:00 p.m.
6/19 Rock Hill
Bluegrass band Rock Hill will provide the tunes at this week’s installment of Music in the Valle. Bring a chair and a cooler and enjoy some quality picking and singing.
Todd
Todd Summer Music Series
Cook Memorial Park
Saturdays, 4:00 p.m.
6/20 Uncle Nave & The Cranberry Creek Boys
The Todd community's 2009 Summer Music Series will kick off this Saturday, June 20 with a return to old-time bluegrass music courtesy of Alleghany County’s Uncle Nave Blevins & The Cranberry Creek Boys. Hailing from Sparta, the band is sure to delight the audience with traditional bluegrass and Uncle Nave's own distinct brand of mountain humor.
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