A Place to Call HOME the Mayberry Confidential Official News of Thesurry ARTS COUNCIL Volume 27, Issue 1 September 20, 2016 ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩
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A Place to Call HOME THE MAYBERRY CONFIDENTIAL Official news of theSURRY ARTS COUNCIL VOLUME 27, ISSUE 1 www.surryarts.org September 20, 2016 ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ MOUNT AIRY has MAYBERRY ON SPEED DIAL MOVIES at the HISTORIC EARLE THEATRE Features are show Friday-Wednesday of each week. Call 336-786-2222 DAILY for weekly movie information or check the Earle website at www. MONTHLY theearle.org. The Earle has a monthly family free movie (see schedule SURRY COUNTY BASKET MAKERS on pages 5-15.) Seasonal classic movies are also shown. The new Siamese Twins Exhibit Room digital projection and surround sound have significantly improved 2nd Tuesday each month, 6:00 pm the experience. There are assistive listening devices as well as closed captioning displays available for most movies. Admission is $6 for VOICE OF THE BLUE RIDGE & feature and special movie classics. In the month of December, children TRADITIONAL MUSIC PROGRAMS 12 and under are admitted for $3. Historic Earle Theatre & Blackmon Amphitheatre 3rd Saturdays, 7:30 pm WEEKLY MOUNT AIRY PHOTO CLUB Siamese Twins Exhibit Room FREE YOUTH FIDDLE & GUITAR 3rd Tuesday each month, 7:00 pm CLASSES Join Kenny Hooker and Hobart Jones as they explore topics of interest Historic Earle Theatre in digital photography. Visitors are welcome. Send your email address 142 N. Main St. to [email protected] for inclusion on the monthly meeting topics. Award winning musician and teacher, Jim ANDY GRIFFITH MUSEUM Vipperman, is the instructor. Instruments are BETTY LYNN 218 Rockford St, Mount Airy, NC 27030 provided. Drop by for a hands-on experience Andy Griffith Museum Open daily year round if you are visiting or bring your child weekly 3rd Fridays, 12:30-3:30 pm Monday-Friday 9:00 am-5:00 pm for lessons. Parents are welcome to stay Betty Lynn continues to visit Sunday 1:00-5:00 pm and participate. This project is sponsored fans at the Andy Griffith Closed Thanksgiving Day & Christmas Day in part by the NC Arts Council, a division Museum each month. She Admission $6, Audio Guides $2 of the Department of Natural and Cultural autographs photos and Resources, and the Duke Energy Foundation. SIAMESE TWINS EXHIBIT memorabilia, and chats and is Same hours as Andy Griffith Museum photographed with fans. She FREE JAM has been recently featured Included in Andy Griffith Museum Admission Historic Earle Theatre in articles in the Charlotte 142 N. Main Street Observer and Washington New! BETTY LYNN EXHIBIT Local and visiting musicians are welcome to play. Music ranges Post. Betty’s 90th birthday Same hours as Andy Griffith Museum from bluegrass and old-time to gospel and country. Traditional celebration included the Included in Andy Griffith Museum Admission music enthusiasts and dancers are welcome. This weekly program is unveiling of a new exhibit featuring artifacts from her life and career supported in part by a grant from the NC Arts Council, a division of the and a photo exhibit featuring over 350 photos. MOUNT AIRY-MAYBERRY EXHIBIT Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Same hours as Andy Griffith Museum Included in Andy Griffith Museum Admission WPAQ MERRY-GO-ROUND PROFESSOR NEAL BROWER TAGS LECTURES Historic Earle Theatre Andy Griffith Museum Theatre, OLD-TIME MUSIC HERITAGE HALL Saturdays, 11:00 am-1:30 pm, $6 or Surry Arts Council Season Pass 2:00 pm, Free at the HISTORIC EARLE THEATRE Annual Merry-Go-Round Pass, $20 Saturday, June 10, 2017, 142 North Main Street The Merry-Go-Round is the 2nd longest continuously running live radio “Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee” Monday-Friday, 11:00 am-3:00 pm broadcast in the nation. The oldest is the Grand Ole Opry. Saturday, July 8, 2017, Saturday 1:30-3:30 pm, Sunday 1:00-3:30 pm The Merry-Go-Round can be heard live on WPAQ 740 AM or streaming “Convicts at Large” Included in Admission to the at www.wpaq740.com. The live show features two bands each week. Saturday, August 12, 2017, Andy Griffith Museum Bands are listed on www.theearle.org. “Prisoner of Love” Portraits of Surry County Join Professor Brower for his old-time music icons line GOLDEN NOTES entertaining and in depth the walls of the Earle. An Andy Griffith Museum Theatre, Tuesdays 10:00 am looks at these favorite episodes audio guided tour with Kelly This recreational group welcomes visitors to join them each week of TAGS. Epperson of radio station as they sing old favorites. They serve as great ambassadors for the WPAQ 740 AM will enhance arts council singing in nursing homes, retirement centers, and at the BLUE RIDGE & BEYOND SERIES (page 3) your visit. The audio guides hospital. The group is led by Sylvia Lowry, a retired music educator and Historic Earle Theatre unless otherwise specified have the music and the voices performer. BLACKMON AMPHITHEATRE SUMMER SERIES of the musicians featured on See schedule pages 5-15 the walls. Kelly also shares LINE DANCE CLASSES Andy Griffith Museum Theatre, Wednesdays 10:00 am Live music and dancing begin at the end of April and run through personal stories of each September. 2017 season passes are $110. These passes cover the one. Surry County Music, Join in for exercise and fun. Traci Artim leads this weekly class for Surry Arts Council members. weekly Merry-Go-Round as well as other events at the Historic Earle a documentary filmed by Theatre and Summer Ampitheatre bands. UNC-TV as part of its Folkways CLOGGING CLASSES Series, and hosted by four Andy Griffith Museum Theatre WITH ADVANCE RESERVATIONS YOUR GROUP CAN time Grammy Award winner Contact award winning instructor Samantha Wilhelmi at www. SCHEDULE: David Holt, runs continuously rhythmicexpressionclogging.com or 540-391-8444 for information on • An evening with John Floyd “The Mouth of Mayberry” in the music hall. There are class times and levels. • Flat Footing lessons with award winning dancer, Marsha Todd exhibits featuring memorabilia of Surry County old-time music masters • Back Stage Tours as well as artifacts from WPAQ. The venue is part of the Blue Ridge DANCE CLASSES • Surry County Music presentation and demonstration with Jim Music Trails Project of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. Andy Griffith Museum Theatre Vipperman Contact Will Shover at www.rhythmonmain.com for information on • Siamese Twins Exhibit presentation classes in ballet, tap, jazz, and gymnastics. 336-786-7998 | www.surryarts.org | [email protected] Page 2 www.surryarts.org BLUEAt RIDGE the Historic AND Earle Theatre BEYOND Mark O’Connor Band Del McCoury Band Bryan Sutton Band Earls of Leicester Lonesome River Band Seldom Scene Bellamy Brothers Balsam Range Dailey & Vincent THE DILLARD BAND featuring RODNEY DILLARD JERRY DOUGLAS & THE EARLS OF LEICESTER THE SELDOM SCENE with special guest Maggie Peterson-Mancuso Friday, February 17, 2017, 7:30 pm Friday, June 23, 2017, 7:30 pm Friday, September 23, 2016, 3:00 pm Historic Earle Theatre, $55 preferred/$50 orchestra/$35 balcony Historic Earle Theatre, $40 preferred/$35 orchestra/$25 balcony Andy Griffith Playhouse, $30 preferred/$25 Orchestra The Earls of Leicester have discovered a kind of magic that, when This IBMA Hall of Fame band is legendary. The internationally known harnessed, allows moments once relegated to memories to roar back group is one of the single greatest contributors to the progression of THE MALPASS BROTHERS to life. Old sounds rattle loose chains of space and time that have kept bluegrass while at the same time setting a new standard and attracting Friday, September 23, 2016, 7:00 pm us from forgotten joys and who we once were. Suddenly, as we listen to new audiences to the genre. Their music includes country, rock, and Historic Earle Theatre, $20 Orchestra/$15 Balcony and watch the Earls pick, saw, and croon, instead of contemplating once even classical pop. They have performed at the White House many upon a time, we are living it. times. They do maintain their reputation of being “seldom seen.” CRAIG SOUTHERN and PHOENIXX VOICE OF THE BLUE RIDGE with host band Saturday, October 15, 2016, 6:30 pm WILL JONES BAND Travis Frye & Blue Mountain Saturday, August 19, 2017, 7:30 pm Blackmon Amphitheatre, Free Saturday, February 18, 2017, 7:30 pm, with The Marshall Brothers Blackmon Amphitheatre, $11* or Season Pass Craig Southern and Phoenixx’ diverse blend of genres with a local twist Saturday, June 17, 2017, 7:30 pm, with Rich in Tradition Having the band out playing shows since June of 2014, this group has will have you up and dancing. Country and Americana Saturday, July 15, 2017, 7:30 pm, with guest band found their groove with a uniquely designed show that will keep you on Historic Earle Theatre, $7* or Season Pass the edge of your seat or on the dance floor. O’CONNOR BAND featuring MARK O’CONNOR TOMMY JARRELL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Saturday, November 19, 2016, 7:30 pm Friday, March 3, 2017, 7:00 pm Dance BELLAMY BROTHERS Historic Earle Theatre, $35 preferred/$30 orchestra/$25 balcony Historic Earle Theatre, $11* or Season Pass Friday, September 22, 2017, 8:00 pm Superstar fiddler Mark O’Connor is an Americana, Progressive Bluegrass, Saturday, March 4, 2017, 1:30 pm, Youth Competition, ages 4-18 Andy Griffith Playhouse, $65 preferred/$55 orchestra Acoustic Pop, Indie Folk, Blues, Country, Classical, Composer, Jazz, and The Tommy Jarrell Birthday Celebration features Surry County old-time Celebrating over 40 years of music success, Howard and David Bellamy folk artist from New York. He has crossed over so many genres that this music with special guest Verlen Clifton. Zephyr Lightning Bolts, Slate have created a patent on the newly cool “duo” category in country award winning musician has a sound and style that is totally his own! Mountain Ramblers, and the Buckstankle Boys will lead the dancing.