Last Updated on October 2, 2022 1:37 pm
The recently-announced Cinema Classic Sci-Fi Film Series at the AppalachianTheatre of the High Country will screen its first film at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4 with amodern cult classic that celebrates several beloved film genres.
“Little Shop of Horrors” is a horror musical comedy film directed by Frank Oz, who began hiscareer as a master puppeteer. Oz created, voiced, and played Muppet characters Miss Piggy,Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle in “The Muppet Show,” and Cookie Monster, Bert, andGrover in “Sesame Street.” He also puppeteered and provided the voice for Yoda in the “StarWars” film series.
The film has a family-friendly start time of 7 p.m. with a budget-conscious general admissionticket price of just $5 per person. The running time for “Little Shop of Horrors” is one hour and34 minutes.
The Cinema Classic Sci-Fi Film Series is generously sponsored by Nancy and Neil Schaffeland consists of four movies suggested by audience members and the general public. The otherfilms on the series are “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” on October 11, Stanley Kubrick’sepic “2001: A Space Odyssey” on October 18, and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”on October 30.
While the App Theatre’s online ticketing system is accessible 24/7, customers can avoid theonline service fees by visiting the lobby box office between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. from Tuesdaythrough Friday, or one hour prior to showtime for each film. For a complete performanceschedule of all upcoming events, or to sign up for the theatre’s e-blast distribution list, visit theorganization’s website at www.apptheatre.org
The Appalachian Theatre of the High Country has announced two additionalartists to their Fall 2022 concert series with live appearances scheduled at the historicvenue in downtown Boone, NC. Popular guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel, C.G.P. willperform on Friday, October 7 and “Folk Music’s Rustic Renaissance Man” JohnMcCutcheon will take to the stage at the historic venue on Friday, October 21.
Bluegrass virtuosos Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway will make their long-awaited AppTheatre debut on Sunday, November 13 with country and Americana singer-songwriterJim Lauderdale appearing in concert on Friday, November 18, 2022.
The Tommy Emmanuel concert is part of the recently-announced Mast StoreAmericana Music Series on the Doc Watson Stage of the Appalachian Theatre. Thisseries is intended to be an ongoing, year-round program of artists and events celebratingthe genre unique to our country.
The ”C.G.P.” after Emmanuel’s name stands for “Certified Guitar Player.” This designationassigned by the late Chet Atkins recognizes guitar players who excel far beyond thenormal line of playing. Atkins handed this title to only to four guitar players in his lifetime,with the first one presented to Emmanuel.
The first quality that defines Emmanuel’s greatness and is mentioned anytime you talk tohis legions of fans, whether musicians or civilians, is his extraordinary guitar playing.Considered by those in the know to be among this planet’s greatest guitarists, his playingis simply miraculous, as it would take three musicians, or more, to do what Emmanueldoes solo. Who else, for example, when playing “Day Tripper,” can lay down the rhythmpart, dig into the riff, and sing the melody all at once on just one acoustic guitar?
Folk legend Pete Seeger said, “John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musiciansin the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally,he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push thisworld in a better direction.”
For over 50 years, “Folk Music’s Rustic Renaissance Man” (Washington Post) has beeneverywhere in the folk music scene. He is a breath-taking multi-instrumentalist, atraditional music archivist, one of the primary revivalists of the hammer dulcimer, apioneering children’s and family artist, a prolific and wide-ranging songwriter, and thevery definition of the touring Road Warrior.
John’s craftmanship began at an early age. No one remembers when the neighborsstarted calling the McCutcheon household to complain about the loud singing from youngJohn’s bedroom. It didn’t seem to do much good, though. For, after a shaky, lopsidedbattle between piano lessons and baseball (he was a mediocre pianist and an all-starcatcher), he had “found his voice” thanks to a cheap mail-order guitar and a used bookof chords.
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway and her brand-new band of bluegrass virtuososfeaturing mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist Kyle Tuttle, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means, are touring the United States in 2022 in support ofTuttle’s forthcoming Nonesuch Records debut.
Tuttle, a native Californian and award-winning guitarist and songwriter, continues to pushher songwriting in new directions and transcend musical boundaries. Since moving toNashville in 2015, she has worked with many of her peers and heroes in the Americana,folk, and bluegrass communities, and won Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018Americana Music Awards.
Her 2019 debut album, “When You're Ready,” received critical acclaim, with NPR Musicpraising its “handsomely crafted melodies that gently insinuate themselves into thememory,” and the Wall Street Journal lauding Tuttle’s “genre-boundary-crossing comfortand emotional preparedness,” calling the record an “invigorating, mature and attentiongrabbingfirst album.”
Tuttle’s accolades also include Folk Alliance International’s honor for Song of the Year for“You Didn’t Call My Name,” from her 2017 Rise EP, and consecutive trophies for theInternational Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year. She was the firstwoman in the history of the IBMA to win that honor.
At any given time, you’re likely to find Jim Lauderdale making music, whether he’slaying down a new track in the studio or working through a spontaneous melody at hishome in Nashville. And if he’s not actively crafting new music, he’s certainly thinkingabout it.
“It's a constant challenge to try to keep making better and better records, write betterand better songs. I still always feel like I'm a developing artist,” Lauderdale says. Thismay be a surprising sentiment from a man who’s won two Grammys, released 34 fulllengthalbums, and taken home the Americana Music Association’s coveted WagonmasterAward. But his forthcoming album “Game Changer” is convincing evidence that the NorthCarolina native is only continuing to hone his craft.
Operating under his own label, Sky Crunch Records, for the first time since 2016,Lauderdale recorded “Game Changer” at the renowned Blackbird Studios in Nashville, coproducingthe release with Jay Weaver and pulling from songs he’d written over the lastseveral years. “There's a mixture on this record of uplifting songs and, at the same time,songs of heartbreak and despair—because that's part of life as well,” he says. “In thecountry song world especially, that's always been part of it. That’s real life.”
All seats for Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are $30. Ticket prices for JimLauderdale are $20 for advance pre-sale purchase and $25 on the day of the show. Fortickets and more information on all events, or to join the theatre’s eblast list and purchasememberships, please visit the ATHC website at www.apptheatre.org.
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