Cherokee Bluegrass Festival

08/07/2012

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🎄✨ Welcome to Bluegrass Christmas in the Smokies! ✨🎄

Get ready to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with the warm melodies of bluegrass in the heart of the Smoky Mountains.

06/15/2012

Come be part of the fun! This is one you don't want to miss!

06/15/2012

06/13/2012

The Campground is really filling up!

06/11/2012

Cherokee Bluegrass Festival
June 14-16, 2012

Thursday
12:00 Welcome
12:05 Last Road Gospel
1 pm The Larry Gillis Band
2 pm Danny Stanley & The Bluegrass Gentlemen
3 pm Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road
4 pm Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
5 pm Supper Break
6 pm The Larry Gillis Band
7 pm Last Road Gospel
8 pm Danny Stanley & The Bluegrass Gentlemen
9 pm Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
10 pm End of Thursday show

Friday
10:30am…..Open Stage
12:00 Cherokee All Star Band
1 pm Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice
2 pm BOJ Osborne & Stone Peak
3 pm Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road
4 pm Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press
5 pm Supper Break
6pm BOJ Osborne & Stone Peak
7 pm Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice
8 pm Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press
9 pm David Holt & Josh Goforth
10:30 pm End of Friday show

Saturday
10:30am….. Open Stage
12 pm Open Stage with Carolina Road Hosting
1 pm Mountain Faith
2 pm Raymond Fairchild
3 pm Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road
4 pm Goldwing Express
5 pm Supper Break
5:45 Miss Cherokee Arrives
6 pm Raymond Fairchild
7 pm Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road
8 pm Dailey & Vincent
9:30 Goldwing Express
10:30 pm End of Saturday show

06/08/2012

Danny Stanley and the Bluegrass Gentlemen is a five piece band that can entertain a variety of venues. With its solid picking, resonate harmonies and family style showmanship; there is something for everyone to enjoy. The band’s vocal showcases duets, trios, and quartets. The band shines with it instrumental accompaniment with the guitar, banjo, resonator guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and stand-up bass. Comedy too, completes the show as lead singer, Danny Stanley, imitates some of Nashville’s greatest stars in his character as “Hobo Joe”. The band consists of Danny Stanley (vocals/guitar), Tom Langdon(banjo/vocals), David Guthrie(mandolin/vocals), Wayne Ratley(bass/vocals) and Jan Johansson(fiddle). Danny Stanley and the Bluegrass Gentlemen will bring the entertainment to your stage show that the fans come to see.

06/08/2012

Four-time Grammy Award winner David Holt is a musician, storyteller, historian, television host and entertainer, dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music and stories. Holt plays ten acoustic instruments and has released numerous award winning recordings of traditional mountain music and southern folktales. Holt is well known for his television and radio series. He is host of public television’s Folkways, a North Carolina program that takes the viewer through the Southern Mountains visiting traditional craftsmen and musicians. David also currently hosts the PBS series Great Scenic Railway Journeys. He served as host of The Nashville Network’s Fire on the Mountain, Celebration Express and American Music Shop. He has been a frequent guest on Hee Haw, Nashville Now and The Grand Ole Opry. David can also be seen as a musician in the popular film, O Brother Where Art Thou. Holt is a three-time winner of the Frets magazine readers’ poll for “best old-time banjoist.” In addition, Esquire Magazine selected Holt for its first “Annual Register of Men and Women Who Are Changing America” in 1984. Called the “the best of the new generation,” those chosen included such notables as Steven Spielberg, Sally Ride and Meryl Streep. All were selected for personal vision, originality and service to others.

06/08/2012

Raymond Fairchild (born March 15, 1939) is an American banjo player from the Great Smoky Mountains. He is known for his fast playing, his fancy and intricate picking and his ability of making the banjo mimic both animals and humans. Fairchild was born in Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina and learned music, from an early age, from his mother's side of the family. His musical influences also included Earl Scruggs, and Don Reno. When he was young he played for tips at a tourist stop in Maggie Valley.[1] The owner of the tourist stop, Ted Sutton, taught young Fairchild about show-business.[2] Between 1975 and 1990, he worked with Wayne and Wallace Crowe, who played guitar and bass and added vocals. The trio became very popular around the bluegrass circuit and recorded albums for Skyline and Atteiram. He then re-formed his Maggie Valley Boys, which included his son Zane on lead guitar and Wallace Crowe’s son, Shane, on bass. In 1989, he recorded with Ralph Stanley, singing for the first time and in 1990, he recorded with Chubby Wise. He is noted for his deadpan expressions, even while executing his most speedy instrumental breaks and also for his humorous anecdotes, such as his hints on how to keep rattlesnakes as household pets. He continued to play into the 90s and his talents have seen him fondly dubbed The King of the Smoky Mountain Banjo Players.

06/08/2012

Her musical career started as a child in her family's band, The Sally Mountain Show, and has spanned almost four decades. She achieved success in the bluegrass genre in the 1970s and '80s, earning the respect of her mostly male peers for her mastery of the progressive chord structures and multi-range, fast paced vocals intrinsic to bluegrass music. Vincent was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on Friday, July 13, 1962. She is the oldest of three children, and the only daughter of Johnny and Carolyn Vincent. Her younger brother, Darrin, is a member of the bluegrass group Dailey & Vincent. On June 7, 2011, Vincent and country legend Gene Watson released a duet album on Upper Management entitled Your Money and My Good Looks. The album entered the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart at number 71.

06/08/2012

I hope everyone is making plans to be at one of the top festivals in the world in just a week! I promise you it is a good time and lots of shade and picking and great bands! We went all out for you.

06/06/2012

Check out the line-up for this year's festival! You don't want to miss it!

06/04/2012