Upcoming Events

• Mountain Traditions: The Sheets Family
  Breakfast Concert
  Aug. 1, 9:00 am
  Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock
• World Travelers: The White Top Mountain Band
  Aug. 7, 8:00 pm
  Blowing Rock School Auditorium
• Beach Music & Boogie: Nightlife
  Aug. 14, 8:00 pm
  Blowing Rock School Auditorium
• Celtic Traditions: The Old & the New – The Forget Me Nots and Friends
  Aug. 22, 3:00 pm
  St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Boone
• A Labor Day Salute: The Mountain Home Bluegrass Boys
  Sep. 5, 8:00 pm
  TBA
• The Studio Band: David Johnson and His Studio Friends
  Oct. 9, 8:00 pm
  Blowing Rock School Auditorium
• Heartwarming Elegance and Hard-time Honky-tonk – Little Windows and the Cave Dwellers
  Oct. 16, 8:00 pm
  Blowing Rock School Auditorium
• The Mountain Dulcimer: Anne Lough and Friends
  Oct. 23, 8:00 pm
  TBA
• Celtic and Classical: Puddingstone
  Nov. 27, 8:00 pm
  TBA
• More Events

Mountain Traditions: The Sheets Family
Breakfast Concert

Sheets Family

The Sheets Family plays traditional Appalachian music in a Carter Family style. They feature exquisite vocals, guitar, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, and flatfoot dancing. Performances have included The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Folklife Festival, the Library of Congress, and the Blue Ridge Heritage Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway, as well as frequent appearances on Mountain Home Music.

Performance will be Sunday, August 1, 9:00 am, at Meadowbrook Inn, Blowing Rock. For more information Click Here.

MHM Mid Summer

Posted by Joe Shannon

The first half of MHM summer season has passed, and the second half is set to begin. As we planned, there have been many firsts this summer: new venues at the Meadowbrook Inn and Chetola Resort, a new website, some new personnel, new times (the breakfast concerts), and, soon, a new, a first, Best of MHM CD. Attendance is also up so far this year. I recently learned, too, that MHM has been awarded a grant from the Watauga County Tourism and Development Authority.

The Forget-Me-Nots

There is, of course, still a lot to look forward to. We have two more breakfast concerts at the Meadowbrook Inn: Songs and Sounds of the Hammer Dulcimer with Steve and Ruth Smith on Sunday, July 18, and old-time mountain music with The Sheets Family on Sunday, August 1. We travel back in time to the folk music revival of the '60s on Sunday afternoon, July 25, when our good friends Strictly Clean and Decent will lead a Folk Song Sing-a-long. We'll have two concerts in August: the Whitetop Mountain Band on Saturday, August 7, and Beach Music and Boogie on Saturday, August 14. And, as always, we'll close our summer season with our annual Labor Day concert featuring the Mountain Home Bluegrass Boys on Sunday, September 5. Specific concert information can be found by clicking on a concert of interest on the right side of this page.

MHM Announcements

There have been many requests for the Jeff Little CD. This CD–Wood, Steel and Strings–features Jeff, Doc Watson, and Steve Lewis. It can be ordered through Jeff's website.

MHM is out of hats and t-shirts. These have been reordered. When available, they can be ordered through this website.

You may have noticed that MHM has a Facebook page. This is a way that the MHM community can talk with each other. Truthfully, I'm not much for Facebook interaction, but I will occasionally check and respond to comments.

The annual MHM Meet the Musicians picnic is being planned for Sunday, September 19. Members will be notified by postcard and/or email about the time and location of this event.