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Friday, July 9, 2010

Southeast Tourism Society Top 20 event welcomes award-winning bluegrass band this weekend

July 10 at An Appalachian Evening The Lonesome River Band will perform on the Grand Old Stage at 7:30 PM. LRB’s most recent album, No Turning Back, has garnered several nominations from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Band member banjo-picker Sammy Shelor is an inductee of the Virginia Music Hall of fame.

An Appalachian Evening was named a Top 20 event by the Southeast Tourism Society in 2008 and is a featured event in the Blue Ridge Parkway 75th Anniversary community spotlight. The series features a traditional Appalachian dinner served family-style and a mountain roots musical performance every Saturday evening through August 28. Performances begin at 7:30pm in the recently restored historic air-conditioned auditorium, seating capacity 340. Dinner seatings are at 5pm and 6:15pm; reservations are required and can be completed by phone (828-479-3364), in-person at the Stecoah Gallery, or on the website at www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

Come early and shop for fresh local produce and art at the Stecoah Tailgate Market from 4pm to 7pm each Saturday before the show. Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center is located at 121 Schoolhouse Road in the Stecoah community off Hwy 28 between Bryson City and Fontana Dam. Located in a restored 1926 schoolhouse, it has become a gathering place for cultural events and community workshops since its renovation in 1996. Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center is a non-profit corporation that serves the people of Stecoah and Graham County through programs and services that benefit all members of the community, by preserving and promoting the Southern Appalachian mountain culture and through the restoration of the
historic old Stecoah School to its original role as the center of the community.

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