It was in Fall 1995 that I first was introduced to the gospel singing Sanders Family of “up near Siler City, North Carolina,” in a production of Smoke on the Mountain at Nashville's venerable Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre. In 2023, the family returns again, as if by magic or perhaps accompanied by flights of angels, in a warmly nostalgic, sweetly sentimental and altogether lovely production from Studio Tenn playing through April 2 at the historic sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church in downtown Franklin, which stands in quite nicely for the First Baptist Church of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, on a Saturday night in 1938.
This popular Wytheville dinner show draws crowds from all over and it’s coming back
Have you ever visited the Wohlfahrt Haus?
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Next month, it will be time to toe-tap to Bluegrass gospel classics and re-engage with the Sanders family once again.
One area staple that draws tourists from all over Virginia and neighboring states is returning, as the Wohlfahrt Haus in Wytheville will host the popular dinner show, “Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming.”