A Mountain Home St. Patrick’s Day
David Johnson will perform at Mountain Home Music’s St. Patrick’s Day concert on Saturday, March 16.
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Mountain Home Music will celebrate the opening of its 20th
season with “A St. Patrick’s Celebration” on Saturday, March 16, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in
downtown Boone. Starting time is 7:30 p.m.
“Opening our 20th season to celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day is fitting,” said Joe Shannon, Mountain Home Music founder and host. “The
largest group of European settlers who found a home in these mountains before the American
Revolution was the Scots-Irish, folks of Scottish and Irish decent.
Their stories were so
powerful, many are still told, and their music was so beautiful, it is still played. We will tell
some of these stories and play a lot of this music this Saturday night. It’s a part of who we
are.”
Performing will be David Johnson (fiddle, etc.), Dori Freeman (vocals and guitar),
Scott Freeman (vocals, mandolin, fiddle), Mary Greene (vocals, piano) and Joe Shannon (harmonica and
concertina).
Johnson has twice been named National Studio Musician of the Year in gospel
music, and he’s a member of the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame. Dori Freeman is a Nashville based
singer and songwriter, Scott Freeman is a former Henderson Festival Mandolin Champion, and Greene is
a well-known and highly respected Appalachian musician.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is
located at 170 Councill St. (behind Earth Fare), near the intersection of U.S. 321 and U.S.
421.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Student tickets are $10,
and children’s tickets cost $5.
Tickets may be purchased at Mast General Store (Boone and
Valle Crucis), Fred’s Mercantile on Beech Mountain, Kudzu Music in Boone and at Pandora’s Mailbox
and the Dulcimer Shop, both in the Martin House on Main Street in downtown Blowing Rock.
Tickets may also be purchased online though the Mountain Home Music website,
http://www.mountainhomemusic.com. For more information, go to the website or call (828) 964-3392.
The
purpose of Mountain Home Music is to honor the music and the musicians of the Appalachian region.
Mountain Home Music is affiliated with the Blue Ridge Music Trails, a project of the North
Carolina Arts Council.
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