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HILTONS, Va. — Dust off your dancing shoes. Live music returns to the Carter Family Fold at the end of July. The Carter Family Fold will present a special reopening event featuring the Brother Boys and Friends at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 31. Doors open at 6 p.m. The concert is the first at the historic Scott County venue since early March 2020, when it closed because of the COVID pandemic. “At present, we plan to continue weekly concerts through Nov. 20,” according to a statement...

Visitors to downtown Johnson City will have another opportunity to enjoy live music this weekend. Down Home Plum Fun, a free live concert, will take place from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday at King Commons Park. Performers will include regional and national acts like Bill & the Belles, Beth Snapp, the Untamed String Trio, the Dependents, the Brother Boys and more. Michael Knowles, a piano player, will perform between acts. The Down Home, a famed local music venue that officially reopened last week afte...

This podcast episode revisits a show recorded in 2008 in Bristol, TN in partnership with The Birthplace of Country Music.

Mountain Stage Eric Church joined the lineup in 2008 for a Mountain Stage episode recorded in Bristol, Tennessee. Eric Church was a rising star in country music when he treated a 2008 Mountain Stage audience in Bristol, Tennessee, to a stripped-down acoustic performance of what is normally a loud, electric stage show. Today he holds the title of CMAs 2020 Entertainer of the Year and sells out stadium shows. "Sinners Like Me" is the Mountain Stage Song Of The Week, and was one of the hits fro...

Festivals were canceled, shows postponed over and over until the realization that coronavirus had seized social gatherings. As 2021 came, music venues and performers have been champing at the bit to get things going again. And some have developed creative ways to remain in the forefront of their fans’ minds. Hello virtual concerts. Big name artists can easily charge a nominal fee to watch a live concert from the singer’s living room, studio or wherever they choose. Local artists have ...