Blue Ridge Music Center Concert - Carlene Carter & the Reed Island Rounders Tonight

July 16, 2016   Blue Ridge Music Center Concert - Carlene Carter & the Reed Island Rounders    The Blue Ridge Music Center Summer Concert Series is performed rain or shine. You are welcome to bring your own picnic basket (NO ALCOHOL please) and encouraged to bring a lawn chair. Phone ticket sales through BRPF Office end at Noon on Friday and are available online up to 12 hours before the concert. The Galax Smokehouse serves BBQ, sides and drinks at each concert. Check the website for details about the performers and concerts

Carlene Carter is the daughter of country music legends June Carter and Carl Smith. Carlene’s own career started in the late 1970s when she went to England to record her acclaimed self-titled debut album (with Graham Parker and the Rumour). She has co-written songs for Emmylou Harris (“Easy From Now On”) and The Doobie Brothers (“One Step Closer”). She came home to country in the 1990s with hits like “I Fell in Love,” “Come On Back,” “Every Little Thing,” and her own shows on VH1 and TNN. In 2014, Carlene returned even closer to home with a tribute to the timeless music of her historic family titled Carter Girl.

photos courtesy of Blue Ridge Music Center

The Reed Island Rounders are not your typical string band. Drawing from the lonesome hollers of West Virginia, the lively traditions of Kentucky’s fiddlers, Blue Ridge Mountain styles, and now the North Carolina sounds from Round Peak to the Piedmont, the Rounders weave archaic with sophisticated, soulful with foot-stomping, and romantic with down-to-earth. Since 1993, when Billy Cornette (guitar and vocals) and Betty Vornbrock (fiddle and vocals) teamed up to compete at fiddler’s conventions, the band has been sharing foot-stomping dance tunes, romantic waltzes, chilling ballads and more with audiences. Kirk Sutphin (banjo and fiddle) rounds out the band.

The Blue Ridge Music Center is located at 700 Foothills Road in Galax, VA at Milepost 213 on The Blue Ridge Parkway, Just north of Boone NC

Annual Downtown Boone Easter Eggstravaganza

March 19, 2016    Annual Downtown Boone Easter Eggstravaganza   Enjoy a family friendly event beginning at 2 PM at the Watauga County Library located on Queen Street in downtown Boone NC. Children then "parade" down to the Jones House Community Center, just a hop and a skip away, for more games and an Easter egg hunt. 

Free refreshments, prizes, and games are provided

This Week at An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone NC

July 21 at 8:00 PM - Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, Works by Beethoven and Schumann performed in the Rosen Concert Hall.

July 22 at 7:00 PM - Weicholz Global Film Series: Twenty Feet from Stardom, shown at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts. This 2013 Academy Award-winning documentary spotlights the triumphant and sometimes heartbreaking stories of the back-up singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st Century. These gifted artists reflect on the sacrifices and rewards of a career spent harmonizing with others. Lisa Fisher, one of the featured performers who has appeared on albums by Sting, Tina Turner, and Aretha Franklin, as well as touring with the Rolling Stones, will perform a live concert the following evening. Purchase a ticket to the Lisa Fischer concert (July 23) and receive a complimentary ticket to this film.

July 23 at 8 PM - "Twenty Feet from Stardom's Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton performing in the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts. A phenomenal powerhouse....in resplendent vocal shape at 56, she brought down the house in the single best show I've seen in many years." - The New York Times, April 24, 2015 The festival proudly presents Lisa Fischer, one of the featured singers in the 2013 production "Twenty Feet from Stardom," a film that pays homage to unsung heroes of the music industry. Fischer won a Grammy for Best Female R&B Performance for her hit single "How Can I Ease the Pain" and has been on tour with the Rolling Stones, Sting, Chris Botti and Nine Inch Nails. The talented singer has also recorded music with artists including Beyonce, John Scofield and Dolly Parton. Purchase a ticket to this concert and receive a complimentary ticket to Twenty Feet from Stardom (July 22).

July 24 and 25 at 8 PM - In/Visible Theatre presents Without Words at the Valborg Theatre. This production was adapted by Derek Davidson from the book A Man Without Words by Susan Schaller. Language connects us. We use words to ask, express love, argue, and to take our place in human society. Without Words is the story of Idelfonso, a languageless deaf man and Susan, the sign language interpreter determined to help him learn. Experts say someone cannot learn a first language as an adult; Susan and Idelfonso proved the experts wrong. In/Visible Theatre uses dance, drama, sound and silence in this remarkable true story of how language is so much more than words. 

July 25 at 10 AM - 29th Rosen Sculpture Walk. The Walk begins at the Smith Gallery, Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts. To mark the 29th season of the Rosen Sculpture Program, the Rosen Sculpture Invitational features work selected by the Turchin Center's curatorial staff in honor of Martin and Doris Rosen. A variety of artists who have participated in past Rosen exhibitions were invited to submit new work for display on the Appalachian campus. Join the Turchin Center's curatorial staff for an outdoor tour of the featured work from the 29th Rosen Sculpture Invitational, which promises a fascinating perspective on the world of contemporary sculpture.

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 An Appalachian Summer at Appalachian State University June 22 - July 31, 2015.  A month-long arts festival that features events in music, dance, theatre, visual arts and film on the campus of Appalachian State University. With award-winning artists from all across the world coming to the High Country in one summer, the festival has become an attraction that appeals to thousands and has been ranked one of the "Top 20 Events in the Southeast" by the Southeastern Tourism Society. There is something for everyone from fine art enthusiasts, to country and bluegrass fans and all those who like a good mixture of both. Get a complete event schedule at the site.

Get lodging and complete local  information on the  
Boone NC Visitor Guide.