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Events for the week of 07/11/2010
| Grandfather Mountain's 55th Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games |
 Date: 7/8 - 7/11
Brawny athletes, delicate dancers, noisy bagpipe band parades, rocking Celtic music and a spectacular highland setting makes this colorful celebration of Scottish culture the best highland games in America. Admission charged. For more information, please call 828-733-1333.
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| Grandfather Mountain Highland Games |
Date: 7/8 - 7/11
The 55th Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games are Thursday to Sunday, July 8 to 11. Sheep herding, music, wrestling, kilted miles, tugs-of-war and activity workshops will all be featured at the games this year. Adult tickets are $15 on Thursday and Sunday, $20 on Friday and $30 on Saturday. Kids' tickets cost $5. The Celtic Jam and Celtic Rock concerts on Friday and Saturday are $15.
Parking is on a first-come, first-served basis at MacRae Meadows every day except Saturday. On Saturday, public parking and a shuttle are available at Caldwell Community College in Boone, Linville Parking Lot in Linville and at the Avery County High School in Newland.
For more information, call 828-733-1333.
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| Watercolor Workshop at the Art Cellar |
Date: 7/11 - 7/11
Time: 9 AM to 4 PM.
Location: The Art Cellar Gallery, Banner Elk
Cost $100
The Art Cellar Gallery in Banner Elk hosts a workshop by National Watercolor Society artist Anne Abgott. Abgott supplies an image that students prepare on their paper prior to class. The workshop is open to all skill levels.
Abgott has taught workshops across the United States an Canada and always has an enthusiastic following of students and collectors. She is the author of the bestseller "Daring Color."
For more information, call The Art Cellar at 828-898-5175.
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| Fred's Summer Sunday Concerts on Beech Mountain: The Dockman Family |
Date: 7/11 - 7/11
Fred's General Mercantile on Beech Mountain will host Fred's Summer Sunday Concerts on five Sundays, July 11to August 8 at 6:30 PM. Some seats are provided, but bring a chair or blanket just in case.
This evening's music is bluegrass
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| Price Pals Week |
Date: 7/12 - 7/16
Time: 10 AM each day
Location: Price Park Amphitheater, Milepost 297
Cost: FREE
Price Pals Week at the Julian Price Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Each day starting at 10 AM, kids can meet at the Price Park Amphitheater to explore the elements of earth, fire, water and wine through activities organized by Parkway rangers.
The programs are as follows: "Earth: Terrific Trees" on Monday, "Fire: What In The Blazes?" on Tuesday, "Water: Water We Have Here?" on Wednesday, "Wind: What is Wind?" on Thursday and a scavenger hunt on Friday. The programs are FREE and open to the public.
For more information, call 828-295-6308.
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| Banner Elk Summer Concert in the Park - The Blue Notes |
 Date: 7/15 - 7/15
Concert starts at 6:30 pm at the stage behind Bank of America on Highway 194. Bring your chairs or blankets and coolers. Food will also be available for purchase at the concert. Raffle tickets can be purchased for prizes as well as for the 50/50 split of the "pot."
This concert is sponsored by Vistas at Banner Elk. At the "Vistas at Banner Elk" Luxury Condominiums, the views are phenomenal with a natural south-facing panoramic observation of Grandfather Mountain! When you drive into Penny Lane, you experience a serene, park-like setting surrounded by nature and buffered from any road noise for that good, clean, country air feeling at your Vistas retreat. People can’t help but gravitate to the high country to enjoy nature’s beauty and cooler, 75 degree average summer temperatures. For more information, you can call them at 828-898-3380, email: cgeer@wildblue.com or visit their web site: www.vistasatbannerelk.com.
About The Blue Notes: To create an authentic New Orleans Dixieland sound, you need a group of musicians dedicated to preserving the great music of the early 20th century. Formed in 2005 by bandleader, Rollin Glaser, the Blue Notes Dixieland Jazz Band's mission is to deliver the dynamic energy and contagious fun this style of music provides!
The Blue Notes Dixieland Jazz Band plays only the New Orleans style. The band is organized as the best of the great traditional Dixieland bands were - eight instruments: clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, tenor sax, piano, drums, and banjo. Each musician is a soloist and an ensemble player. When the Blue Notes perform, the audience can't help but dance and sing along!
More About New Orleans Dixieland Style: From the late teens to the early 1920's a highly-influential local brass band tradition came together with the blues and ragtime musical roots developed in New Orleans, Louisiana to create a new type of sound called Dixieland jazz. This new music spread rapidly from New Orleans to Chicago, Kansas City, New York, and back across the Midwest into California. Over the years the term "Dixieland" has fragmented as jazz gained in popularity. The traditional version is credited as the New Orleans style, most likely stemming from the "Original Dixieland Jazz Band", a New Orleans group who made the first public recording of this style in 1917 gaining them international prominence as a result.
Common instruments in a Dixieland jazz-style group include trumpet-cornet, clarinet, trombone, and saxophone. The rhythm section could include the banjo, piano, drums, tuba or sometimes a string bass. The music was often characterized by a steady, upbeat, tempo, 4/4 meter, and rhythms performed in an triplet swing style. Frequently the bass section plays on the first and third beats of each measure, with the banjo or piano playing chords on beats two and four. This is known as "two-beat" style, and gives the music its ragtime feel. The balance of the ensemble typically play melodies and countermelodies simultaneously and each take their turn soloing. The musicians often improvise melodies adding their own inflections throughout the song.
Famous traditional Dixieland tunes include: "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Muskrat Ramble", "Struttin' With Some Barbecue", "Tiger Rag", "Milenburg Joys", "Basin Street Blues", and many others. The music ranged from funeral dirges to the exuberant songs of Mardi Gras. They came to be grouped as Dixieland standards beginning in the 1950's.
All of these tunes were widely played by jazz bands of the pre-WWII era, especially jazz great Louis Armstrong, pianist Jelly Roll Morton, trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, trombonist Edward "Kid" Ory, clarinetist Sidney Bechet, and bandleader King Oliver. The "New Orleans Traditional" revival movement began in 1942 with the rediscovery of Dixieland pioneer, Bunk Johnson, by younger musicians and strengthened with the founding of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter during the 1960's.
However derived, New Orleans style Dixieland jazz - with the steady beat of its distinctive, infectious rhythms; intricate, stylized melodies and phrasings; and the generous use of vibrato and glissando - all serve to give the music its warm and familiar character. This is the hallmark of Dixieland ... New Orleans style!
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| Tweetsie Railroad: Dora and Diego! |
Date: 7/16 - 7/18
click here for website
You can meet Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer and her cousin Diego from Go, Diego,Go! in "Meet and Greets" from 10 AM to 5 PM daily throughout the weekend.
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| Music in the Valle - Kent Doobrow & The Other Brothers |
Date: 7/16 - 7/16
The Music in the Valle Concert series continues at Valle Crucis Community Park at 7 PM every Friday through September 10.
The park is located on Broadstone Road behind the Mast Store Annex in Valle Crucis.
For more information, cal 828-963-9239.
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| Avery Arts Council's Big Night Out Fundraiser |
Date: 7/17 - 7/17
Vice President Rebecca Warner has announced plans for hte Arts Council's annual summer bash, a highlight ofthe season, which is the major source of funds for arts programming in Avery County.
There will be a wine tasting of very special vintages, and there will be a whole tent of casino gaming. Gamers can turn in their winnings for chances on glamorous raffle items, including resort stays and custom jewelry. There will be live music for the dancing crowd, and lots of hors d'oeuvres to keep everyone from getting hungry.
The Big Night Out event takes place from 6 - 10 PM at the Art Cellar Gallery (920 Shawneehaw Avenue (Hwy. 184)) in Banner Elk. Tickets are $100 per person, which provides guests with 20 coupons to exchange for tastings of exclusive and rare wines, and with $20,000 of "fun money" for the gaming tables. To purchase tickets, call the Avery County Arts Council at 828-898-4292 or email info@averycountyartscouncil.org. Raffle tickets can be purchased prior to and during the event. For a complete list of raffle items, visit the Arts Council web site at www.averycountyartscouncil.org.
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