BethM | August 30, 2010
This Saturday, Sept. 4, two of our favorite performers will return to the stage at Cook Memorial Park for a couple of hours of outstanding music. Wayne Henderson and Helen White will bring their fabulous guitar picking, banjo strumming, fiddling, and singing to Todd for the last concert in TCPO’s Summer Music Series. Admission is [...]
BethM | August 22, 2010
Todd’s concert today (8/21) was full of diversity, virtuosity, and, yes, water. All in all, it was a very special day for everyone, from volunteer ticket-takers to the rapt audience for the Forget-Me-Nots, The Tillers, and Doc, Richard, Charles Welch, and Joel Landsberg, We started the day in the familiar late-summer fog and drip. We [...]
BethM | July 26, 2010
The eighth annual Todd community benefit concert featuring Doc Watson & Friends is set for Saturday, Aug. 21, from 3 to 7 PM. The Tillers and The Forget-Me-Nots will also be featured at the concert. Tickets to the concert are $15, $17 for credit card purchases. Children under 12 are admitted free. Only 1,500 tickets [...]
BethM | July 26, 2010
Madison County master musicians Laura Boosinger and Josh Goforth will return to Cook Park on Saturday, July 31, for the last of the Todd Summer Music Series concerts. Widely celebrated individually, these two are dynamite together. You don’t want to miss them! Come to Walter and Annie Cook Memorial Park, in the middle of Todd’s [...]
BethM | July 18, 2010
The not-so-worthless Americana band Worthless Son-in-Laws return to Todd this Saturday, July 24, for another rousing concert at Cook Park from 2 to 4 PM. Bring a chair or a blanket and a friend! TCPO’s Summer Music Series, offering free Saturday-afternoon concerts through the end of July, is supported in part by a grant from [...]
BethM | July 18, 2010
Cedar Creek Performing \”Fiddler\’s Anthem\” in Cook Park It was an awesome afternoon in Todd. Thanks to Eric Ellis, David Johnson, and the rest of the band for coming up to Ashe County.
Jim | May 22, 2009
Tickets for the August 22nd Doc Watson concert at Todd went on sale today at Todd General Store, Todd Mercantile and RiverGirl Fishing Co. Tickets will be available at other locations in the High Country next week, including the Ashe Chamber of Commerce in West Jefferson and the Boone Chamber of Commerce in Boone. Only [...]
Jim | May 8, 2009
Mountain Pathways Montessori School and Green Valley Community Park will team up again for the Third Annual Mountain Valleyfest at Green Valley Park on Big Hill Road next Saturday, May, 16. There’s lots of great food, music, vendors and children’s activities. And all the proceeds go to a good cause. Visit the official Valleyfest website [...]
Jim | April 13, 2009
Deep Gap’s most famous native son, Doc Watson, will return to Todd on Saturday, Aug. 22. The concert date was confirmed Monday. Each summer since 2003, the Grammy Award-winning artist and his grandson, Richard Watson, have played for their friends and neighbors in Todd. The 2008 Doc Watson concert at Todd was a special event, [...]