Lisa and Dave will be at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, NC Thursday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m. with a program on early country and bluegrass music sponsored by the Stephenson Center for Appalachia. Click here for more details. On March 10 we will be performing in West Jefferson, NC, as part of the Ashe County Arts Council Coffeehouse series.
See our Calendar page for more details, including performances this coming summer in the Todd summer concert series, Music Fest ‘N Sugar Grove, and Mountain Home Music.
Please check out our Calendar page for some upcoming events: Monday, Oct. 24 at ASU to help celebrate Appalachian Heritage Week, Sunday afternoon October 30 at the River House, and especially Thursday, Nov. 3 for a benefit for Mary Ann Maier–see the Facebook page for the benefit, which will feature us, Melissa Reaves, Black Sheep Theatre, the Lost Faculties, and more. Here is a link to the poster for the concert.
After an adventure in South Dakota, Lisa and Dave are back in North Carolina and we will kick off our summer music with a Sunday Salon at the River House in Grassy Creek, NC, this Sunday, May 15, from 4 – 6 p.m. See the River House web site for details. Reservations are recommended (336-982-2109), and you can reserve a spot for the music (with drinks and excellent hors d’oeuvre) or for the music and dinner afterward. If the weather is good, you can sit on the porch or the lawn and sip a beverage of your choice while listening to the music and watching the North Fork of the New River flow by.
We look forward to seeing you soon; watch the “calendar” section of our web site for upcoming performances. Thanks for your support.
Lisa and Dave
It turns out that our stay in South Dakota will be shorter than we anticipated. We will be returning to the Boone, North Carolina area around July 1, 2011. We have made many good friends here, and we are enjoying this adventure, but Dave’s job here turned out to be very different from what we had expected. Dave will be returning to Appalachian State University as a faculty member, and Lisa hopes to be teaching elementary or middle school while starting her new children’s music program, “Music, Minds, and Motion.” (her new web site is under construction.) We also hope to resume performing in the area. We look forward to seeing our many North Carolina friends this summer, and we are available for bookings beginning in July.
We have some new music on the “music” section of our site, including some live cuts from the Jones House in Boone a couple of years ago and a rare live cut of Joe Val and Dave singing “When I Stop Dreaming” on the Prairie Home Companion radio show. And now you can buy our CDs directly from us with PayPal or a major credit card–see the “music“ section.
We have now been in South Dakota since mid-June. Dave is enjoying his new job as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Black Hills State University. He can be reached at david.haney@bhsu.edu. Lisa is an adjunct instructor in the College of Education at Black Hills State as well as a part-time student studying the Lakota language. We live in a house built in 1883 near downtown Spearfish, and we are making new friends as we try to stay in touch with our old friends. Our dog Larsina and our two cats, Harrison and River, are enjoying new smells and sleeping places.
We have not been playing out in public yet, though we have been practicing and doing a little recording at home. Here is a photo of our last gig in North Carolina at the Home Town Opry with Eric Ellis, Billy Gee, David Johnson, and Ron Swann, all of whom played on Eric Ellis’s recent CD (see the “Music” tab for samples). Thanks to Rick Drummond for the photo.
Home Town Opry, June 2010
photo by Rick Drummond--Music Fest in Sugar Grove 2009
Although we have cut back on performances due to our busy lives in the past few months, we continue to play in the Boone, NC area, and we have been involved in recording projects during the past year: Lisa and her sister Melinda Mills recorded a children’s music cd, We’re LearningThrough Song, and Dave recorded with Eric Ellis on Eric’s Every Night Before Breakfast. (See the “music” page for details.) Watch our “schedule” page for news about our appearances.
