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Mosaic Stage Company makes the scene
Since forming in August 2012, Jefferson’s new Mosaic Stage Company has followed what founder and artistic director Kim-Noel Bianchini calls an “if we build it, they will come” approach to re-thinking community theater. “We want to walk the line between hilarious and heartbreaking,” said Bianchini. “We want to take on some topics.” Mosaic formed quite naturally, she said, when its members met and realized there was a group of people in t...
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<p>Dylan Lightfoot | Jefferson Post</p><p>Ashe County High School&#8217;s Appalachian music teacher Steve Lewis (left) shows students chord changes for the Bluegrass standard, &#8220;Dig a Hole in the Meadow.&#8221; Students, from top to bottom: Johnathon Cox, Eli Gambill, Kendra Nethery, Zoe Richardson, and Sabrina Lambeth.</p>
ACHS students study Appalachian music with banjo virtuoso
In a small practice room in the back of Ashe County High School, a handful of music students spend their mornings picking banjos and mandolins and learning about Appalachian culture and history while singing songs about moonshine and manslaughter. Appalachian music teacher Steve Lewis sits facing his pupils, a three-ring binder of sheet music open on the floor, showing chord fingerings and highlighting lyrical points. The atmosphere is casu...
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<p>Dylan Lightfoot | Jefferson Post</p><p>Jest Country played the Hardee&#8217;s in Jefferson Tuesday as WKSK&#8217;s Jan Caddell (left) sat in on harmonica. Mike Little (banjo), Charley Gibson (guitar) and Sandy Wyatt (bass) started playing the gig in October and &#8220;always have a good crowd,&#8221; Gibson said.</p>
Tuesday live music featured at Hardee’s
Tuesday nights used to be the slowest at the Hardee’s in Jefferson, until the management hired a three-piece band to play the dining room from 5-8 p.m.. “We always have a good crowd,” said multi-intrumentalist Charley Gibson of Jest Country, the house band at Hardee’s. “We’ve probably quadrupled their business on Tuesdays.” Gibson and his bandmates Sandy Wyatt and Mike Little — all from West Jefferson — play a repertoire of Country, Blueg...
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<p>Photo by Bannister Pope | Jefferson Post</p><p>Melissa Reaves electrified her audience with her solo performance at Boondocks Friday.</p>
Reaves solo performance thrills WJ audience
If you were one of the lucky few who caught Melissa Reaves ’ solo performance at Boondocks Friday night, you came away with the conviction that you had witnessed a “happening,” maybe even the inauguration of a “scene.” And, if you gazed around the room at the rest of the audience as Reaves tore the house down, you saw they were thinking the same thing you were: “I can’t believe this is West Jefferson!” And: “That girl can sing!” And: “...
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