This year’s Appalachian Music Festival features some of the best musicians and performing artists in West Virginia.
The festival kicks off on Friday night, June 9, 2017, with the premiere of an original musical comedy, FRACK!! by JC Lacek. The play features all new original music by J. Scarborough. Additional Composition (as well as live performance) by members of Kid In The Background, Inc., Long Point String Band, and The Kind Thieves. Tickets are $18 in advance, and $20 at the door. Box office opens at 6:30pm. House opens at 7:15pm. Curtain at 8:00pm in the Tamarack’s Governor Hulett C. Smith Theater. (FRACK!! is intended for mature viewers, as it contains some adult language and content.)
FRACK!! Synopsis: Things are tough all over for Jim Cunningham. A single father who recently lost his job as a truck driver for Piney Fork Coal, Jim struggles to make ends meet while raising his two teenage kids. As Jim begins to believe he has reached the end of his rope, he is visited by a peculiar representative from a gas fracturing company known as Grendel Corp. Their offer to Jim is simple: All of his money problems can go away on one seemingly simple stipulation… only they can decide where on his property to put the gas well.
*Saturday, June 10, 2017
10-11am – Maggie Jusiel presents a talk about Art Music in Appalachia, in the theater.
5 bands will play throughout the day in the courtyard. Performance times, each lasting an hour:
- 11am – Circa Blue
- 12:30pm – Circa Blue
- 2pm – Little Sparrow
- 3:30pm – Justin Morris and Xander Hitzig
- 5pm – Long Point String Band
On Saturday night, we will host a ticketed concert featuring The Lilly Mountaineers, in The Hulett C. Smith Theater. Tickets are $10 +tax and processing fee online in advance, and $12 +tax and processing fee at the door. Box office opens at 7pm. House opens at 7:15pm. Show at 8:00pm.
*Sunday, June 11, 2017
9-11am – Dr. Tim Mainland presents lecture about The Banjo: A Historical Icon
The Appalachian County Cloggers will perform throughout the facility. Four 15 minute performances will happen at 11am, 11:30am, 12pm and 12:30pm, throughout the retail floor. The will also have an hour long performance in the courtyard at 1pm.
