SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 ISSUE
Catch Country Blues at Concerts on the Lawn Friday
Dashboard Hula Boys and Kirby, Welch and Stone Play This Week
The Dashboard Hula Boys, along with Kirby, Welch and Stone, will play this Friday, September 3, as part of Concerts on the Lawn at the Jones House in downtown Boone.The Watauga Arts Council is now entering its last month of this summer’s Concerts on the Lawn, and country blues lovers will have the chance to catch Dashboard Hula Boys and Kirby, Welch and Stone this Friday, September 3, before the series concludes at the end of September.
The free concert begins at 5:00 p.m. at the Jones House in downtown Boone with Dashboard Hula Boys kicking off the evening, and Kirby, Welch and Stone will follow at 5:45 p.m.
Dashboard Hula Boys have been performing together for a little over two years now, and are made up of Tom Whyte, Ed Midgett and Nick Hurst.
Influenced by Americana, rock ‘n roll, old classics and swing, the group plays an eclectic mix covering what Whyte called a “hodgepodge” of genres.
“You name it, we do it,” Whyte said. “We do everything from the Mills Brothers to The Beatles to Dean Martin. We’ll even throw in a disco tune every now and then.”
The only thing they don’t do is rap or hip-hop—not because they don’t want to, Whyte said jokingly, but because they aren’t able.
Kirby, Welch and Stone includes John Kirby on tenor guitar, Rick Stone on mandolin and guitar and Charles Welch, also on guitar.
Welch, described by Concerts on the Lawn organizer Mark Freed as an excellent blues player, is well known in the High Country for his performances with Doc Watson, including an appearance in Todd when Watson performed August 21.
Season sponsors of Concerts on the Lawn include the Downtown Boone Development Association, Mast General Store, Footsloggers, Panera Bread and the Watauga Insurance Agency, Inc.
The last two concerts in the series will feature Zephyr Lightning Bolts and Whitetop Mountaineers on Friday, September 10, and The Harris Brothers and Crys Matthews on Friday, September 17. For more information, call 828-264-1789 or click to www.watagua-arts.org.
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