http://pittcountynow.com Thu, 9 Sep 2010 23:00:52 EDT http://pittcountynow.com/post/220/13/high-fiasco-for-some-bop-to-you-drop-for-others.html http://pittcountynow.com/post/220/13/high-fiasco-for-some-bop-to-you-drop-for-others.html And still I found the Holy Ghost Tent Revival, hailing from Greensboro, North Carolina, an enigma. Was it the music, or their stage presence - a high octane jump and dance competition, where all of the band members finished in first place - that forever colored my opinion? I don’t know.

The one thing that I do know is that their music suits their antics, and their antics were maddening in the sheer force of their constant energy in the second show of the first night of the Beaufort Co... Read More]]> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:53:34 EDT http://pittcountynow.com/post/213/13/turnage-theater-full-of-warm-spirit-lacking-warm-bodies.html http://pittcountynow.com/post/213/13/turnage-theater-full-of-warm-spirit-lacking-warm-bodies.html At $12 a ticket, the three-and-a-half hour opening concert to the Beaufort County Arts Council’s second-annual Beaufort County Music Festival was a smart buy. Nevertheless, only 150 of the 300 tickets were sold, according to Turnage Theater Box Office Manager Katherine Buchholz.

The low turnout can be partly attributed to the ignored back-story of performer Lipbone Redding, aka Citizen One, aka Lawrence Vanderpoel Behr II, in preview stories and advertisements leading up to the event.

Lipbo... Read More]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:07:54 EDT http://pittcountynow.com/post/60/13/in-concert-riders-in-the-sky.html http://pittcountynow.com/post/60/13/in-concert-riders-in-the-sky.html In the Holiday Spirit the Cowboy Way ...

The worn wooden stage at the head of the Turnage Theater was aglitter and aglow with the bright, but tacky Christmas lights adorning some of the many stage props of the night’s entertainment, Riders in the Sky. The fabricated cactus that stood behind Joey the Cowpolka King and Too Slim was strung with the glittering lights, the synthesized campfire glow had its place in front of the singing foursome, with a large Woody action figure (from the Dis... Read More]]> Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:57:45 EST http://pittcountynow.com/post/59/13/in-concert-bearfoot.html http://pittcountynow.com/post/59/13/in-concert-bearfoot.html Bearfoot are a Breath of Fresh Air as they Breezed through Town

The bluegrass / traditional country band Bearfoot came to Washington’s Turnage Theater and gave a near perfect performance of the music that steels my will to consider the talent that could stir my soul. And what a resounding success it was?

Bearfoot is a group of five young folks, ranging in ages of 22 to 26 years of age, who have grown preciously wise in their approach to an American genre of music that is becoming some o... Read More]]> Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:55:10 EST http://pittcountynow.com/post/37/13/in-concert-missy-raines-and-the-new-hip.html http://pittcountynow.com/post/37/13/in-concert-missy-raines-and-the-new-hip.html Rhythmic Rhapsody: Missy Raines and the Boys Get the House Rock'n

Missy Raines brought her new band, Missy Raines and the New Hip, to Washington, North Carolina on October 23, 2009, to play the Turnage Theater, and they really just blew me and the sparse crowd frequenting the Turnage Theater, into the stratosphere of rhythmic satisfaction. Some of you may query: Who is Missy Raines and the New Hip?

Missy and the boys take stage.

Understandably, I did not know of their existence before that... Read More]]> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:12:24 EST http://pittcountynow.com/post/13/13/dillon-fence-plays-the-turnage.html http://pittcountynow.com/post/13/13/dillon-fence-plays-the-turnage.html Dillon Fence Enjoys a Piece of Their Past

Dillon Fence enjoyed a nostalgic night of partying with their friends at the Turnage Theater in Washington, N.C. Dillon Fence was, in the early 1990's, a big draw in Chapel Hill, but as of late, they really haven't had much success as an ensemble.

Their Saturday night at the Turnage was a reminder of their days in Chapel Hill playing Cat's Cradle, and knowing the admiration of folks that understood and seriously enjoyed their music. It must have bee... Read More]]> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:36:00 EST