SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 ISSUE
Daniel Boone Days 2009
Festival Guide
Featured Artists
Donna The Buffalo
Donna the Buffalo
Performs: Saturday, September 5, from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. at Horn in the West
Trumansburg, N.Y.-based Donna the Buffalo will bring their blend of old-time-rock-reggae-zydeco to the stage at Horn in the West in Boone as they headline the 2nd annual Daniel Boone Days Music and Culture Festival this Saturday, September 5. Over the past two decades, Donna the Buffalo has built a catchy and solid repertoire of feel-good, slightly funkified country-rock-folk songs, won countless national awards in multiple musical genres and nurtured a fervent fan following lovingly referred to as The Herd. After headlining music festivals across the country this summer, the five-piece band—which features Western North Carolina music scene mainstay, former member of Snake Oil Medicine Show and current member of Acoustic Syndicate Jay Sanders—will continue its 20th anniversary tour in Boone with a two-hour set under the lights at Horn in the West.
Band Members: Jeb Puryear (guitar and vocals), Tara Nevins (accordion, fiddle, guitar, scrubboard and vocals), Jay Sanders (bass), Dave McCracken (keyboards), Vic Stafford (drums)
More Information: www.donnathebuffalo.com
Larry Keel & Natural Bridge
Larry Keel & Natural Bridge
Performs: Saturday, September 5, from 6:50 to 8:35 p.m. at Horn in the West
Flat-picking guitar legend and progressive bluegrass alchemist Larry Keel and his band Natural Bridge will grace the main stage at Horn in the West for the 2nd annual Daniel Boone Days Music and Culture Festival. Connecting traditional songs of yesterday with their own original and inventive sounds of today, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge create astonishingly powerful acoustic music rich in heritage, heart and hot picking. Larry Keel & Natural Bridge have been cranking up miles on the odometer since playing the inaugural Daniel Boone Days in September 2008 and are hot off the release of their latest studio album, Backwoods.
Band Members: Larry Keel (guitar and vocals), Jenny Keel (bass, fiddle and vocals), Mark Schimick (mandolin and vocals), Jason Flournoy (banjo and vocals)
More Information: www.larrykeel.com
Upright & Breathin’
Upright & Breathin'
Performs: Saturday, September 5, from 5:45 to 6:40 p.m. at Horn in the West
Boone-based pickers Upright & Breathin’ will bring the show in from the porch and onto the stage at Horn in the West in Boone for Daniel Boone Days. A raw and rocking acoustic band with bluegrass instrumentation but with no intention of minding the genre’s rather strict and confining rules, Upright & Breathin’ has been doing things their way ever since their inauspicious start.
Band Members: Ben Smith (guitar, bass and vocals), Brian Kreher (banjo and dobro), Jeff Moretz (mandolin and vocals), John Shefield (bass and guitar)
More Information: www.myspace.com/uprightbreathin39
Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
Performs: Friday, September 4, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 1018 of ASU Walker College of Business Thelma C. Raley Hall
The High Country simply cannot get enough of Robert Morgan—especially since he published Boone, A Biography in October 2007. Morgan’s first nonfiction work, a comprehensive biography of Daniel Boone, provides a perfect starting point for the second annual panel discussion about the historical figure. Morgan co-headlines the 2nd annual Dr. Edwin Arnold Daniel Boone Symposium this Friday.
Early on in the biography, Morgan discusses time Boone spent in Western North Carolina, including his hunting trips along the Yadkin River near North Wilkesboro, his hunting cabin located at the current site of Appalachian State’s campus and the meat and hide storage cabin he established just north of Boone in the community presently called Meat Camp. Morgan spent four years researching and writing the biography. Morgan, born in Hendersonville and a Cornell University professor, has also published 11 books of poetry and eight fictional novels, including Oprah Book Club selection Gap Creek, Brave Enemies and The Truest Pleasure.
The Downtown Boone Development Association sponsors Morgan’s appearance at Daniel Boone Days 2009.
More Information: www.robert-morgan.com
Randell Jones
Randell Jones
Performs: Friday, September 4, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 1018 of ASU Walker College of Business Thelma C. Raley Hall
Randell Jones is an author and storyteller. He is the author of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone, winner of the 2006 Willie Parker Peace History Book Award, and the author of In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett. He produced “On the Trail of Daniel Boone,” the companion DVD, which received a 2006 Paul Green Multimedia Award from the N.C. Society of Historians.
Jones is an invited member of the Road Scholars Speakers’ Bureau of the N.C. Humanities Council for 2008-2010. He is also a past president of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association and consults with the National Park Service on the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail. He appears annually as a volunteer storyteller to school groups during Overmountain Victory Days sponsored by the National Park Service and hosted at the Museum of N.C. Minerals on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
This year, Jones is involved in the national celebration of the 275th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Boone, America’s pioneer hero. In 2006, he organized the region-wide celebration of the 250th anniversary of the marriage of Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan on August 14.
Jones will join Robert Morgan and other panelists during the 2nd annual Dr. Edwin Arnold Daniel Boone Symposium, and then return on Saturday for a performance with The Forget-Me-Nots at Horn in the West.
The North Carolina Humanities Council sponsors Jones’s appearance at Daniel Boone Days 2009.
More Information: www.danielboonefootsteps.com
The Forget-Me-Nots
The Forget-Me-Nots
Performs: Saturday, September 5, from 4:55 to 5:40 p.m. at Horn in the West
The Forget-Me-Nots bring fresh energy to the ageless tradition of Celtic music. The band originated in 2002 but its roots go back to 1999, when the girls started playing violin at the tender ages of 2, 3 and 4 years old. The players are Willa Finck, Maura Shawn Scanlin and Ledah Finck, with David Finck on backup guitar. The girls, classically trained through the Suzuki method, also showed an early interest in playing old-time and Celtic fiddle music. This interest blossomed in the fertile grounds of the North Carolina High Country, an area steeped in Appalachian musical traditions.
The Forget-Me-Nots have thrilled listeners at festivals, concerts, house parties, weddings and fundraisers throughout North Carolina and Tennessee. Their music ranges from energetic reels and soulful airs to great works from the classical repertoire.
The Forget-Me-Nots will join Randell Jones for a musical storytelling performance, “The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone,” during Daniel Boone Days 2009.
Band Members: Willa Finck (violin and fiddle), Maura Shawn Scanlin (violin and fiddle), Ledah Finck (violin and fiddle), David Finck (guitar)
More Information: www.theforgetmenots.com
Orville Hicks
Orville Hicks
Performs: Saturday, September 5, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Horn in the West
Orville Hicks grew up the youngest of 11 children in a farm family in western Watauga County. He remembers his boyhood as a hard but happy time and works these memories into his storytelling, which he has shared with thousands over the years. Growing up featured storytelling as an important entertainment, work incentive and expression of family and community unity. Hicks’ creative carrying on of tales and his reworking of them in relation to changing contexts represents a singular development of mountain folk narrative tradition.
Hicks is the winner of The Kentucky Colonel Award, The Brown Hudson Folklore Award, the Folklore Preservation Award, the Paul Green Multi-Media Award, the Willie Parker Peace History Award and the North Carolina Heritage Day Award. In addition, the mayor of Boone declared October 25, 2007, as “Orville Hicks Day.”
More Information: www.geocities.com/orvillehickssite
The Sheets Family
The Sheets Family
Performs: Saturday, September 5, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Horn in the West
The Sheets Family exemplifies family in many ways, from the wonderful mother-daughter harmony singing, original songs dealing with community, friends and changing times and the husband-wife duets of old familiar songs from the Southern mountains. They enjoy the music, the culture that goes along with it and the audience, often getting them involved in what the family is doing onstage.
Band Members: Randy Sheets (clawhammer banjo and vocals), Deborah Jean Sheets (guitar and vocals), Kelly Sheets Snider (fiddle and vocals), Charlie Hart (bass)
More Information: www.myspace.com/thesheetsfamily
What To Look Forward To...
2nd Annual Dr. Edwin Arnold Daniel Boone Symposium
DATE: Friday, September 4, 2009
TIME: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
LOCATION: ASU Walker College of Business · Thelma C. Raley Hall · Room 1018
COST: FREE, Contributions welcome
Want to know who the real Daniel Boone was, as well as his connections to this region? Join bestselling author, professor and historian Robert Morgan—author of the Oprah’s Book Club selection Gap Creek and New York Times bestseller Boone: A Biography—and award-winning author of In The Footsteps of Daniel Boone Randell Jones as the historical gurus talk about everything Boone with regional experts. Do you know Boone? Morgan and Randell will give presentations on Daniel Boone, revealing some secrets about the pioneer icon never before heard and describing Boone’s time in the High Country. After a short break for lunch—downtown walking maps will be provided for attendees, as well as materials for an historical scavenger hunt provided by Jones—the symposium will reconvene for a question and answer panel.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
10:10 to 11:00 a.m.—Randell Jones
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.—Robert Morgan
12:30 to 2:00 p.m.—Lunch Break, Scavenger Hunt
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.—Question and Answer Panel
2nd Annual Fess Parker Wine Dinners at The Gamekeeper Restaurant
DATE: Friday, September 4, 2009
TIME: 6:00 p.m. until…
LOCATION: The Gamekeeper Restaurant · 3005 Shulls Mill Rd · Boone, NC
COST: $95 (includes gratuity and tax)
Wine and dine in a rustic lodge; eat wild game entrees similar to what Boone would have eaten; and enjoy the wines of Fess Parker—television’s Daniel Boone—at one of the High Country’s finest restaurants during the Fess Parker Wine Dinner at The Gamekeeper Restaurant on Friday, September 4. Dinners start with a social at 6:00 and 7:00 p.m., followed by dinner seatings at 7:00 and 8:00 p.m.
*Reservations are required. Please call The Gamekeeper Restaurant at (828) 963-7400 to RSVP.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
6:00 to 7:00 p.m.—Social
7:00 p.m.—Dinner
7:00 to 8:00 p.m.—Social
8:00 p.m.—Dinner
2nd Annual Daniel Boone Days Music & Culture Festival
DATE: Saturday, September 5, 2009
TIME: 1:00 - 11:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Horn in the West, 591 Horn in the West Drive, Boone, NC
COST: $16 Advance/$20 Door
On Saturday, September 5, after we have finished sipping Fess Parker’s wines and learning about Daniel Boone, it’s time for the pièce de résistance of Daniel Boone Days—the 2nd annual Daniel Boone Days Music & Culture Festival at Horn in the West. The festival is jam packed with activities for all ages and tastes, including children’s music and games, living history, arts & crafts, food & drink, dancing, poetry, storytelling and live performances from national acts such as Donna the Buffalo and Larry Keel & Natural Bridge. Come on up to get down…
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
1:00 to 4:00 p.m.—Living History, Hickory Ridge Homestead
1:00 to 7:00 p.m.—AIRWALK/Vendors/Kid’s Activities/Fun & Games, Hickory Ridge Homestead
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.—Storytelling with Orville Hicks, Hickory Ridge Homestead
3:00 to 4:00 p.m.—The Sheets Family, Main Stage
4:00 to 4:30 p.m.—WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT, Amphitheater
4:30 to 4:45 p.m.—Daniel Boone Look-Alike Contest, Side Stage
4:55 to 5:40 p.m.—Forget-Me-Nots & Randell Jones present “The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone”, Main Stage
5:45 to 6:40 p.m.—Upright & Breathin’, Main Stage
6:50 to 8:35 p.m.—Larry Keel and Natural Bridge, Main Stage
8:35 to 9:00 p.m.—Banter Break
9:00 to 11:00 p.m.—Donna the Buffalo, Main Stage
Sponsors
...And a big THANK YOU to our wonderful team of volunteers!
Welcome to Horn in the West—Boone’s Pride and Joy
Daniel Boone Days Music & Culture Festival Spotlights Horn in the West
In 1952, the United States was ending its occupation of Japan, the Korean War was underway, polio was sweeping the country, television was just coming to Canada and work was coming to an end on a project to add a 20-acre amphitheater and living history museum to the geographical center of the Town of Boone.
The country and town have seen more than a half century of advancement and change since the hillside of Horn in the West was carved, sculpted and thoughtfully laid out by our area’s visionaries, yet the venue—which has been the site of one of the nation’s oldest Revolutionary War dramas for more than 50 years—still stands as one of the best representations of our region, in terms of architecture, atmosphere, ambiance and the perfect balance of nature and human imagination.
This venue, one of our best assets, has faded into our landscape over the years. Although it is home to our outdoor drama and farmers’ market, Horn in the West, with its towering oaks and hemlocks, cascading stadium seating, log cabin-peppered homestead, captivating stage setup and meandering wooded trails, is lost on the majority of our local population. After more than five decades in existence, a new chapter in the history of Horn in the West is entering its second year with the 2nd annual Daniel Boone Days Music & Culture Festival, the Town of Boone’s official annual festival. Daniel Boone Days, hopefully, will introduce new faces of all ages to the wonders of Horn in the West, and then we, as a community, can build support and add even more events to this venue, which is the envy of event organizers up and down the East Coast.
More Information: www.danielboonedays.com, www.horninthewest.com
Stay Involved—Make Daniel Boone Days Your Annual Escape to the Mountains
Keep Informed Throughout the Year By Clicking To DanielBooneDays.com
We truly hope you enjoy your time with us at Daniel Boone Days, and thank you for coming to share in this celebration. We hope you will click to www.DanielBooneDays.com after this weekend so you can check out photos from the 2009 events and keep informed of plans for the 3rd annual Daniel Boone Days Music & Culture Festival, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, September 3 and 4, 2010.
We encourage Daniel Boone Days attendees to not only take advantage of the annual festival, but also the many unique businesses, restaurants and events that the North Carolina High Country is known for. We love having you here—there’s no better place for music, food, drink, accommodations, culture, smiling faces, community camaraderie and good ol’ mountain hospitality than right here in our Blue Ridge Mountains, so take a load off, breath in the brisk mountain air, forget about the outside world for a few and immerse yourself into Daniel Boone Days. Thanks for coming up and getting down…
More Information: www.danielboonedays.com, www.highcountrypress.com
Community Interest
News & Notes
Events
Arts & Entertainment
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
