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Concerts & Dramas
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center
All Shows
– 6:00-8:30 PM (unless noted)
Outside Amphitheater
(cushions or blankets recommended)
Further information, please contact: Hope
Whitehead, Special Events Coordinator, Great
Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, P. O. Box 268,
Townsend, TN 865-448-0044, or email:
gsmheritagecenter@yahoo.com
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Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
December 1,2, & 3
“Christmas Memories”
Cardwell & Montvale Station Cabins
Step into Christmas Past
Turn-of-the-century Christmas decorations by Sunrise
Garden Club, Smoky Mountain
Garden Club and Tuckaleechee Garden Club.
Special Christmas Music and Crafts
Hot Spiced Cider Brewed over Open Hearth & Cookies
Friday, December 1 – 6:00-8:00 PM
“Members Only” Christmas Memories Candlelight Tour
Cardwell & Montvale Station Cabins |
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July 4th, 2006
6:00 to 8:30 PM
Jacqui & The Tumblekings
Celebrating Independence Day with Classic
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Since their
beginning in 1991, Jacqui & The Tumblekings have
specialized in the classic country of the 1960s and
70s, just before country music became cool in
New York City.
Among their highlights, they have opened for shows
featuring Trisha Yearwood and Junior Brown. They
have recently begun to write some original material,
with plans for a CD in the fall, but they still love
to please their fans with covers of classic country
greats like Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Hank
Williams, Tammy Wynette, Buck Owens, and Johnny
Cash. Traditional Country Classics, Western Swing
and Blues - A breath of fresh air with a honky-tonk
flair!
Admission Free with
Heritage
Center
Membership Or
$4 Adults - $3 Students & Seniors – Free: 5 years
old & younger
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Friday, July 14 |
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7:00 PM ($5 fee w/o membership)
Lost Mill String Band - An Appalachian
Celebration by Tremont Institute
A Night of Traditional Ballads, Stories & Music
of Southern Appalachian
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An Appalachian
Celebration: Authentic Traditional Appalachian
Music, Stories and Ballads
Storyteller:
Elizabeth Rose
Authentic Southern
Appalachian Music: Lost Mill String Band
Ballad Singer:
Nancy Brennan-Strange
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Saturday, June 24
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Wild Blue Yonder
Bluegrass & Americana by one of East Tennessee’s
best
Wild Blue Yonder
is an energetic
bluegrass ensemble from Knoxville, TN. The
6-piece all-acoustic group plays a mix of
traditional and contemporary bluegrass favorites
along with a healthy portion of original tunes.
Whether
you are a dyed-in-the-wool bluegrass purist or a
recent convert via the likes of Alison Krauss
and Nickel Creek, this group has something for
you. Their wide spectrum of material and their
exciting stage presence delights and entertains
young and old alike!
Their
first CD, "Bolt Out Of The Blue," was released
in 2002 and is now receiving regional, national,
and international airplay. It can be heard,
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"Above & Beyond," on radio stations across
Tennessee, in addition to some in Alaska, Canada,
Australia, Norway, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Many
know
Wild Blue Yonder
from their novelty tune, "The Possum Crawls
Tonight," a unique East Tennessee spin on the '60s
hit, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." The "possum song,"
affectionately known by fans, gained notoriety
because of consistent airplay on
WIVK Radio
(107.7 fm) and
WDVX
(89.9 fm) in the Knoxville and Clinton areas, and
then word about them continued to spread to other
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Friday, July 21 – 5:30 PM |
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Mystery Mountain Boys
Bluegrass Music
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Saturday, July 22 |
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Tennessee Sheiks
Acoustic Swing featuring vocalist Nancy Brennan
Strange
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Saturday, August 19 |
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The Bearded
Old Time music by young upstarts who performed
at this year’s Bonnaroo Festival
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Friday, September 1 |
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Slow Blind Hill
Chicago Blues by one of Knoxville’s top Blues
Bands
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Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center
Townsend, TN (865-448-0044)
Outside Amphitheater
Saturday, June 24 - 6:00–8:30 PM
Admission – Free with Heritage Center Membership
OR
$4 Adults - $3 Seniors/Students – Free: 5 & Under |
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Further information, please contact: Joyce Dunavant,
Special Events Coordinator, Great Smoky Mountains
Heritage Center, P. O. Box 268, Townsend, TN
865-448-0044, or email:
gsmheritagecenter@yahoo.com
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Events Passed
This Year |
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Saturday, May 27 – 7:00 PM
Romeo & Juliet – Black Box Theatre
Classic play set in the 1800’s -
paralleling the family feud of the
Montagues & Capulets with that of
the Hatfields & McCoys
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Cushions or
Blankets recommended
Free with
Heritage
Center Membership Or - $4/adults -
$3/senior adults/students – free 5 yrs
and under
Black
Box Theatre – Actors Co-Op is pleased to
be touring their production of Romeo &
Juliet to rural Appalachian communities
in East Kentucky and
East Tennessee.
The production sets the feuding Montague
and Capulet families in the time of the
late 1880’s.
The production, while sitting on the
border of Kentucky
and West Virginia, remains
true to Shakespeare’s language and
intent. Romeo & Juliet has been awarded
funding from the Tennessee Arts
Commission and the National Endowment
for the Arts for this production. |
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Sunday, May 28th –
2:00 PM
Romeo & Juliet – Afternoon
Production
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Cushions or Blankets recommended
Free
with
Heritage
Center Membership Or - $4/adults -
$3/senior adults/students – free 5
yrs and under
Black Box Theatre – Actors Co-Op is
pleased to be touring their
production of Romeo & Juliet to
rural Appalachian communities in
East Kentucky and
East Tennessee.
The production sets the feuding
Montague and Capulet families in the
time of the late 1880’s.
The production, while sitting on the
border of
Kentucky and West Virginia, remains
true to Shakespeare’s language and
intent. Romeo & Juliet has been
awarded funding from the Tennessee
Arts Commission and the National
Endowment for the Arts for this
production.
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Saturday, June 17
6:00 to 8:30 PM
Broadway Swing Band featuring
Marshall Andy Smalls
Crooning the hits from the Classic Swing Era
Though he is probably best known as a Western
cowboy singer with his own TV show, “Riders of
the Silver Screen”, on Knoxville 's PBS station,
Marshal Andy Smalls got his start singing with a
big band in the late 1940s. For this evening, he
will be backed by the six-member Broadway Swing
Band as he croons the swingin' standards first
made popular during the late 40s and early 50s.
Don't forget to bring your dancing shoes!
Marshall Andy's Riders of the Silver Screen
With his theme song, "The Riders of the
Silver Screen are gone," Marshall Andy
plaintively calls to the audience for his
Saturday-morning show on public TV: older
men nostalgic about watching cowboy movies
at the Saturday matinee, "when candy only
cost a nickel."
Then we hear the theme again:
Now they're riding where the river meets the
sun
They'll never ride the silver screen again
The riders of the silver screen are gone!
The Marshall sounds mysteriously triumphant
as he sings about those folks never riding
the silver screen again, and Frosty waves
from a fence post as Marshall Andy himself
hangs on as a horse gallops away across a
field, gone indeed until next week.
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