Smoky Mountain Hiking

The Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont is coordinating the First Annual Appalachian Celebration with the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. The event will be held at the Heritage Center Amphitheatre on July 14 at 7 p.m. The cost is only $5 at the door and kids 6 and under are free.

There will be traditional mountain stories by Elizabeth Rose, southern Appalachian music by artists like well known and beautiful vocals of, Nancy Brennan-Strange (of the Tennessee Sheiks) and Lost Mill String Band based out of East Tennessee. Jerry and Joan Paul of the Lost Mill String Band will proudly represent the unique string band music of our great Appalachian mountains. Joan plays clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica and Jerry plays the upright doghouse bass. Tune selections are authentic to mountain and early American culture, with songs and stories that will take the listeners back in time to days gone by.

Learn more at the GSMIT events page.