photo by Phil Thatch
The WoodSongs Dalton 2018 Concert Series will host the award winning band Mountain Cove and The Farmer & Adele at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24, at The Wink Theater in downtown Dalton.
Advance tickets for the January concert are available at the Dalton Freight Depot Gift Shop, Bigham Discount Music, online at www.woodsongsdalton.com, and at the door. Advance tickets are $15 and $18 at the door.
The concert series features emerging and established performers of Americana, country and bluegrass music, whose performances also benefit local non-profits. Many of the performers over the years have been Grammy nominees and recipients, and/or received recognition for their talents by the International Bluegrass Music Association.
The concert series will be held at the Wink Theater, 115 Crawford Street in the heart of downtown Dalton. WoodSongs Dalton is sponsored in part by the Downtown Dalton Development Authority and the Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the DEO Clinic, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit medical clinic that provides medical care to low income, uninsured residents of Whitfield and Murray Counties. Proceeds up to $2,500 will be matched by Modern Woodmen of America to benefit DEO Clinic.
For further information, call 706-581-8025.
Review of Mountain Cove Band
The concert will feature the Mountain Cove Band, whose members began performing in 2008 when they formed the band at Signal Mountain High School. They have garnered frequent news media attention, not only for their youth, but also their outstanding instrumental playing, close vocal harmonies and entertaining showmanship. MCB has brought a unique sound to the Bluegrass world by combining traditional bluegrass with classic-rock influences. The band has released three albums since their founding, and hopes to release another in the future. Mountain Cove won the 2014, 2015 and 2017 National Band Championship at the National Smithville Fiddler's Jamboree.
Review of The Farmer & Adele
The Farmer & Adele features the lighthearted songbird Grace Adele, and her musical partner Keenan Wade, on a collection of country-western originals and covers. The Farmer & Adele grew up admiring classic music - classic country, jazz, the Tin Pan Alley songwriters - and those early styles reflect so much of what the two stand for. Their songwriting is uplifting, heroic and simple, but hearken back to the time of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, an interest the duo shares with the Riders and a torch the Riders in the Sky carried from equally legendary Sons of the Pioneers.