MOUNTAIN VIEW — Ozark Folk Center State Park has announced the 2012 Celebrity Concert lineup. Tickets are on sale for all concerts and are available by calling (870) 269-3851.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, Ozark Folk Center State Park will present Mike Snider. Tickets are $20.
Snider is a national banjo champion who broke into the country music scene in the 1980s. He made hundreds of television appearances on The Nashville Network’s Nashville Now and had a seven-year stint on the perennial television favorite Hee Haw.
At 7 p.m. Aug. 31, the Folk Center will present John McEuen and Sons, Johnathan and Nathan. Tickets are $20.
John McEuen is a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which performed at the Ozark Folk Center last year to a sold-out house. The evening will include music from the band’s new album, For All the Good, and the music of John’s sons, which has been getting critical acclaim in its own rite.
At 7 p.m. Sept. 1, the Folk Center will present Michael Martin Murphey. Tickets are $25.
Murphey started gaining in popularity in the 1970s with hits such as “Wildfire,”“Carolina in the Pines” and “Wild Bird,” and recently has been called America’s No. 1 Cowboy Singer.
At 7 p.m. Sept. 21, the Folk Center will present The Charlie Daniels Band. Tickets are $45.
Charlie Daniels, known for his fiddle playing, is a music icon who has been performing for more than 50 years. His style is a mixture of rock, country, bluegrass, blues and gospel.
Daniels’ rebel anthems “Long Haired Country Boy” and “The South’s Gonna Do It Again” propelled his 1975 collection Fire On the Mountain to double-platinum status. He won a Grammy Award in 1979 for “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” and the following year, the song became a major crossover success on rock radio stations after its inclusion on the soundtrack for the hit movie Urban Cowboy. The Charlie Daniels Band appeared in the movie. The song still receives regular airplay on classic rock and country stations.
At 7 p.m. Sept. 22, the Folk Center will present Don Edwards, a Grammy-nominated cowboy singer and guitarist. Tickets are $20.
Edwards is building a legacy that enriches the vision of the American West. In tales of the day-to-day lives and emotions of those who have lived it, his ballads keep alive the sights, sounds and feelings of this most American contribution to culture and art. Bobby Weaver of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City summed up Edwards’ importance as “the best purveyor of cowboy music in America today.”
For more information or to purchase tickets, call (870) 269-3851.
Three Rivers, Pages 126 on 07/29/2012