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  • From: Heather LaGarde <heather AT barnstarvintage.com>
  • To: Sax06ca AT lists.ibiblio.org, Sax06ca2 AT lists.ibiblio.org, Sax06d AT lists.ibiblio.org, Sax06e AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Great Big Gone in Saxapahaw
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:30:49 -0400


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








  • Great Big Gone in Saxapahaw, Heather LaGarde, 06/07/2007

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