WMMT's COMMUNITY ARTS CALENDAR
Thursday Jan 7th
WMMT’s Bluegrass Express Live begins its stunning 2010 season with one of the great banjo & vocal masters of Bluegrass and one of your all time favorites, Dave Evans Thursday Jan 7. WMMT’s Bluegrass Express LiveThursday Jan 7th in the intimate Appalshop Theater in downtown Whitesburg. Dave Evans & Riverbend
Friday Dec 18th
The Hemphill Community Center in Letcher County has Bluegrass & dancing on Friday nights. Appearing Friday Dec 18th will be East KY Tyme. For info: Eilene Fleming 606-855-7737.
The Historic Lay’s Building in downtown Coeburn presents bluegrass on Friday evenings at 7. Also, everyone is welcome to the weekly jam session on Thursdays at 6. Refreshments and cake walks too. 276-395-3534
Saturday Dec 19th
Marlow Tackett and Friends will present a free bluegrass and gospel concert on Saturday Dec 19th beginning at 5 at theGateway Industrial Park on Rt 23/119 at Jenkins. On Saturday the 20th at Noon, Marlow’s 32nd Annual Christmas Presents for those less fortunate will be distributed to everyone at the Industrial Park. All are welcome
The Country Cabin II in Josephine, VA (near Norton) features Bluegrass & old time music as well as cake walks, clogging, & broom dances. Appearing Saturday Dec 19th will be Appalachian Strings. 276 - 679-2632
The Tacoma Community Center on the big road between Norton & Coeburn features bluegrass & old time music on Saturdays at 7:30. Appearing Dec 19th will be JR Gibson & Bluegrass Favorites.Cakewalks & Refreshments available & everyone is welcome. For info: Roosevelt Stanley 276-679-1164
The American Legion Post 152 in Whitesburg is holding a dance on Saturday Dec 19th at 9. Andy Miranda, Tony Shortt and Chris Isaak will perform. The public, 21 & older, is welcome. 606-633-2834
Summit City in downtown Whitesburg will present old time mountain music junior master Brett Ratliff Thursday Dec 17th, The legendary metal master Don Dokken of Dokken in a special intimate evening Friday Dec 18th and The Black Lilies & Christmas Ball Saturday the 19th. Summit City has on display a photography exhibit by Jeff Willis and also has Open Mike Every Wednesday evening. www.summitcitylounge.com 606-633-2715
Dec 19th & 20th
The Kentucky Opry will present its Christmas Show on Saturday Dec 19th at 7:30 and Sunday the 20th at 3 at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg. 1-888-MAC-ARTS or www.macarts.com
Monday Dec 21st
The Troubadour Concert Series will present Riders in the Sky on Monday Dec 21st at the Kentucky Theater in Lexington. 859-231-7924
Monday Dec 14th
The Letcher County Chamber of Commerce will host its Annual Christmas Social on Monday Dec 14th @ 6 at the Courthouse Café in downtown Whitesburg. All members and interested folks are invited. For info: Brenda DePriest
Thursday Dec 17th
The Burdine Church of God of Prophecy in Jenkins will host a Toy Give-a-Way on Thursday Dec 17th from 2 to 6. Everyone Welcome.
Friday Dec 18th
Appalshop’s Christmas in Appalachia, Christmas the way it used to be, will be celebrated Friday Dec 18thin the Appalshop Theater in downtown Whitesburg. Everyone is invited to join in with friends & neighbors, Appalshop & Roadside Theater folks in a good old fashioned Christmas in the Mountains. Admission is free but canned food donations for the Letcher County Food Pantry are welcomed. Please join us. 606-633-0108
Dec 21, 22, 24 & 25
The Santa Train TV Special will air on Great American Country Dec 12th, 13th, 21st, 22nd, 24th & 25th. Check local listings.
Saturday Dec 19th
Free Yoga Classes will be held by North Fork Yoga to benefit Letcher County Cares on Saturday Dec 19th from 10:30 to 11:45 and 12 to 1:15 at the Whitesburg City Hall Community Room. North Fork Yoga welcomes all levels and no experience is necessary. Donations of House Wares, Women’s and Children’s Clothing and money will be appreciated. For info: 606-233-6546 or northforkyoga@gmail.com
January 15th
Kudzu, Hazard Community College’s literary magazine, is now accepting submissions of poetry, short stories, essays, flash fiction, artwork and book reviews. Kudzu will also feature the Gurney Norman Prize for Short Fiction and the Kudzu Poetry Prize. Deadline is Jan 15th. For info: Scott Lucero, HCC, Hazard KY 41701 or www.hazard.kctcs.edu/kudzu or kudzumagazine @ myspace
Presently
The Appalshop Gallery in downtown Whitesburg, one of the featured galleries in Letcher County Tourism’s Art Walk, has on display works by Letcher County Schools’ Art Students.The Appalshop is open daily from 9 to 6. For info: www.appalshop.org
Through December
The Appalachian Artisan Center in Hindman has on display the exhibit “Mike Ware: 30 Years of Pottery” featuring Potter Mike Ware’s work. The Artisan Center and Cafe is open Monday thru Friday from 10am to 6 and Saturdays 10am to 4. 606-785-9855
Through January
The Pike County Artisan Center current exhibits feature work by renowned Appalachian Painter, Muralist & Bon Vivant Pam Oldfield Meade and Sculptor Tom Dant. The Artisan Center, in its new location on 2nd Street, hosts “First Friday” each month on the First Friday. For info: Lahla Deakins www.pikeartisancenter.org
The Campbell’s Branch/ Line Fork Community Center will host a Thanksgiving Dinner on Saturday Nov 21st at Noon. Turkey, Ham & all the fixin’s- Eat in or Carry out. All proceeds will benefit the Center. 633-0382
Mondays 4-6 pm on WMMT
WMMT’s Appalachian Attitude, features musicians, writers and interesting Appalachians from throughout our region. Josh Pennington from Hazard is scheduled for Nov 16th and Stoll Vaughn from Lexington the 23rd. We welcome CD’s and books from musicians & writers from this neck of the woods and suggestions for interesting folk to have as guests. For info: Jim Webb, WMMT, 606-633-0108
First Wednesday of each Month 6 - 7 pm on WMMT
WMMT’s “What’s Cookin Now”, the only live cooking show on the radio (that we know of) takes to the airwaves the first Wednesday evening each month after “Ridin Around Listenin to the Radio with Wiley Quixote”. In these days of monolithic media and generic radio, how many radio stations would let three chatty foodies loose in the kitchen for an hour? Only the one & only, WMMT, Real Food Radio. The next “What’s Cookin Now” with Jenny, Jonathan & Tricia Wednesday Nov 4th at 6. Tune in for some mighty fine aromas & the most nutritious radio you’ve ever smelled.
The Wise Weekly Cruise-In takes place each Thursday from 6 until 9 at Mosby’s in the Ridgeview Centre. All Classic Cars are welcome. For info: 276-328-4414
Tales of the Lonesome Pine Book Store in Big Stone Gap has various monthly activities & special events. First Sunday @ 11 – Sunday Sing & Jam; First Monday @ 7pm – Writing Group; Tuesdays @ 7pm – Needlework Nights; Third Thursday @ 6:30 –Pine Knots Book Club; Second Saturday – crafting for young & old. 276-523-509
The City of Whitesburg’s & Hobo’s Diner‘s Bike Night in downtown Whitesburg is the last Saturday evening each month. Everybody is invited to participate. For info: Hobo’s Diner 606-633-5950
Appalshop hosts its monthly Appalshop Jam, the 1st Saturday each month. Next Jam will be on Saturday December 5th at 1. 606-633-0108
Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (SAMS), a community based environmental & social justice organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in our area and to helping rebuild sustainable communities, meets the 3rd Tuesday each month at 6:30 at the SAMS office on Wood Avenue in Big Stone Gap. All are welcome. 276-523-4380
The Whitesburg ARH hosts its Cancer Support Group on the second Monday each month at 6pm at the Glass Apal at the hospital. Everyone is welcome. For info: Rachel Breeding 606-633-3572
The Lexington Film League is sponsoring the “Do-Ers Community Film Contest” and invites all film makers to make a 5 minute film about what’s going on in their communities. There will be cash prizes and other benefits. Deadline is Jan 15th 2010. For info: www.lexingtonfilmleague.org
The Harlan County Chapter of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth will hold its monthly meeting Thursday December 3rd @ 7pm at the Southeast Community College Appalachian Center in Cumberland. Letcher County will hold its meeting Monday December 7th @ the KFTC office on Main Street in Whitesburg. The Floyd County Chapter of KFTC will hold its meeting December 14th @ 7pm at St Martha Catholic Church near Prestonsburg. Perry County will hold its meeting at the HCC Vocational Ed building Tuesday December 8th at 6. All are welcome. For info: 606-632-005
“Picking and Grinning” in Hindman has moved to the Human Resource Center. All pickers & grinners welcome. For info: Robert Short 606-785-4404
The Down Home in Johnson City features “Open Hoots” on Wednesdays
Summit City in downtown Whitesburg features an Open Mike Night on
Wednesdays. All performers are welcome. 606-633-2715
The Auction House in Hyden has a jam on Thursdays from 6 to 10. All pickers are welcome. Vernon Couch 606-374-7285
The Leslie County Center of HC & TC hosts Music in the Park in Hyden on Thursdays weather permitting. For info contact Rhonda 606-487-3487
The Historic Lay’s Building in downtown Coeburn hosts a weekly jam session on Thursdays at 6. All pickers welcome 276-395-3534
Mountain Art Works in Haysi hosts a jam on Thursdays from 7 to 10. 276-865-5595
Hemphill Community Center in Letcher County has bluegrass every
Friday night at 7:30pm. For info call Red Roberts 855-4396
The Historic Lay’s Building in downtown Coeburn presents
bluegrass on Friday evenings at 7. Also, everyone is welcome to the weekly jam session on Thursdays at 6.
Refreshments and cake walks too. 276-395-3534
Appalshop's Traditional Music Project hosts an Old Time Jam from 1-5 p.m. the first Saturday of each month (606)633-0108
Hometown Music in Whitesburg has a monthly acoustic jam from 11 to
3 on the second Saturday each month. 606-633-8177
Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap hosts an Old
Time Jam in the Goodloe Center on the 3rd Saturday of the month.
The Tacoma Community Center on the big road between Norton & Coeburn features bluegrass & old time music on Saturdays at 7. Wolf Creek Grass will perform July 12th.Cakewalks & Refreshments available & everyone is welcome. For info: Roosevelt Stanley 276-679-1855
The Country Cabin II in Josephine, VA (near Norton) features
Bluegrass & old time music as well as cake walks, clogging, & broom dances. East Kentucky Tyme performs July 12th
276 - 679-2632
The Carter Family Fold at the old homeplace in Hiltons, VA presents
bluegrass & old time music, starting at 7:30 pm. 276 - 386-9480
The Family Bluegrass Barn on Highway 19 in Hansonville VA features
live music from 7:30 to 11.
The Southwest Virginia Museum in Big Stone Gap hosts a monthly
Coffeehouse & Open Mike the 1st Saturday of each month from 7 to 9.
276-523-1322
