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PACked with Promise
Written By: Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC | Issue: 2016/09 - September
Back by popular demand, Balsam Range returns to the Highlands Performing Arts Center on Saturday,September 17.
From deep in the Appalachians where the Great Smoky Mountains meet the Blue Ridge comes Balsam Range, creatively blending bluegrass, folk, gospel and jazz into a new American acoustic music experience. The band has made a definite mark in the bluegrass and acoustic music world and has won many awards:
• 2013 IBMA Album of the Year, “Papertown”
• 2011 IBMA Song of the Year Winner, “Trains I Missed”
• 2011 IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year Nominee
• 2011 IBMA Album of the Year Nominee, “Trains I Missed”
• 2010 IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year Nominee
• Seven National Number One Songs
Balsam Range will perform at 8:00 P.M. Saturday, September 1.
With the national election right around the corner what better group to come perform than the political satire/comedy group, The Capitol Steps, slated for 8:00 P.M. Saturday, September 24. The group began in 1981 as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. Over the years they’ve released over 40 albums consisting primarily of song parodies. The Capitol Steps has been in various small- and medium-sized venues around the United States. They’ve been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard twice a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their “Politics Takes a Holiday”radio specials.
The Capitol Steps say the only complaint they have ever received from a politician is from one whom they have not mentioned.
Highlands PAC is located at 507 Chestnut Street. Tickets are available online at highlandspac.org or by calling (828) 526-9047.
