Saturday’s third annual Mountain Song Festival held at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium on the campus of the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, NC stands as another example of the well run, thoughtfully programmed music festival’s power to attract significant audiences to hear an eclectic range of contemporary and traditional bluegrass music.
The festival featured four high powered acts, all associated with bluegrass music, but perhaps not pure traditional bluegrass according to some people’s lights. Nevertheless, the Steep Canyon Rangers, Cherryholmes, Tim O’Brien, and the Sam Bush Band as well as special guest Steve Martin raised the roof and kept the house rockin’ from early afternoon until well into the evening.
The Wittington-Pfohl Auditorium is an 1800 seat open air, covered auditorium featuring state of the art sound and light, comfortable seats with good sight lines, and a spacious stage designed to handle every kind of performance from grand opera to soloists. The home of a world famed music school during the summer, the Brevard Music Center, hidden away on the edge of Brevard and bordering the Pisgah National Forest, provides an ideal venue for a one day event. Read more »
The Steep Canyon Rangers will host Mountain Song Festival Saturday, September 13 at the Brevard Music Center in Brevard NC. Boasting as strong and interesting a line-up as a one day event could offer, this festival can be said to be without headliners as every performer on the bill is a headliner. In order of appearance, the festival features The Steep Canyon Rangers, Cherryholmes, Tim O’Brien, and Sam Bush. Except for Bush, each band will perform twice. The Sam Bush Band will close the day with a ninety minute set beginning at 8:30 PM. Tickets cost $40.00 and can be purchased at a number of outlets as well as on-line.
The Whttington-Pfohl Auditorium at the Brevard Music Center is an 1800 seat open air, covered auditorium that is also the host of a wide range of other musical activities in the summer. Located on 140 acres of in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the center contains 145 buildings used for lodging, practice, and rehersal purposes. Read more »
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