RTP-area local music and culture

[Heather LaGarde <heather AT barnstarvintage.com>]

This week at the  Saxapahaw Rivermill Farmer's Market and Music  
Series   GREAT BIG GONE

Great Big Gone hails from the NC Piedmont and brews up a twangy blend  
of electrified porch picking, finger licking, roots rocking, western  
swinging, honky tonking Americana all garnished with a pinch of  
cajun. Formerly members of The Brown Mountain Lights, Great Big Gone  
is not to be missed!

"Janet Place's voice, reminiscent of a huskier Patsy Cline ... drips  
with country hard luck and hard-won wisdom." - Silas House, No  
Depression

Rich harmonies, back porch-styled strumming and picking, all tempered  
with their deep sensibility of the common ground between old time  
music, straight country and melodic pop- Chris Toenes - The  
Independent Weekly.

"This is dead good pickin’ & singin’ that compares favorably with the  
Asylum Street Spankers and dipping further back, Dan Hicks and his  
Hot Licks. Yummy like home cooking, not too fancy, yet a reminder of  
how satisfying meat-and-taters electrified front porch music can be."  
- Dennis Cook - San Francisco - pauserecord.com

Playing on the Hay Wagon Stage this Saturday JUNE 9th!

 The Farmers' Market,  is keeping us all well fed and healthy with  
delicious strawberries,  heirloom pork, cheese, foccacia, cookies,  
breads, and treats, eggs, fresh veggies and produce and delicious  
jellies, chutneys, honey and more! The Barbecue Joint has set up shop  
and will be with us EVERY WEEK this summer selling a wide variety of  
dinners including vegetarian options AND this year we have a growing  
artisan market with beautiful handcrafted items including pottery,  
jewelry, wooden toys,birdhouses and furniture.

Every week, CERES  Saxapahaw's local quality of life organization,  
sets up exciting events and activities for children including the  
Famous Zipboat ( a kayak on a zipline - low to the ground) the  
Environmentally Engineered Slip-N-Slide, created in the shape of the  
Haw River this year complete with tributaries, a new children's  
musical village, face painting, children's arts & crafts.  The weekly  
kid's parade is just wonderful as the kids travel across the hills  
humming tunes and giggling! Children's Activities made possible by  
www.Bioallies.com

Festivities take place in central Saxapahaw next to the Post Office  
and across from the Saxapahaw Rivermill every Saturday from 5pm-8pm  
through the end of August.  Admission is free though donations are  
appreciated, organizers pass around a "Swan Bucket" each week for the  
band.

The series is sponsored by the Saxapahaw Rivermill and by local  
businesses including Open Eye Cafe, Fifth Season Gardening, Townsend  
Bertram and The Barbecue Joint.

Saturday events take place outside in downtown Saxapahaw next to the  
Post Office.  The Farmers Market and Children's Activities run from  
5-8 and bands play on the Haywagon Stage at the Meadow Amphitheater  
from 6-8.  For more information, a schedule of bands and farmers,  
directions, pictures and more please visit www.rivermillvillage.com  
or call 336 376 5694.  COME ON OVER TO SAXAPAHAW!


SUMMER BAND SCHEDULE:
June

9       Great Big Gone (formerly Brown Mountain Lights)

16  	Jimmy Magoo & Friends at 6 ( Special Opening Band Performance  
for kids by Baron von Rumblebuss at 5!!)


23  Big Medicine

30  The Jonathan Byrd Band

July

7       The Maudlin Brothers

14      The Two Dollar Pistols

21      Wood & Steel

28      Memphis

August

4       Randy Whitt & The Grits

11      Django Haskins

18      Tommy Edwards & Friends

25      The Kickin Grass Band


Oktoberfest - October 20th: The Parsons, SouthPaw, Memphis, Wood & Steel