if you go
* What: White Oak Mountain Bluegrass Festival, July 17-18
* July 17: Band competition at Hardee’s on Keith Street in Cleveland starts at 6 p.m. Winning band will open the festival the next day.
* July 18: Festival gates open at 9 a.m. at Tri-State Exhibition Center off Exit 20. Admission is $20 adults, $5 for ages 6-12, free for children under 6. $5 discount coupons available at participating Hardee’s restaurants starting Saturday.
* Early bird special: Biscuits and Jam session, 9:30 a.m., with limited number of Hardee’s biscuits and a musical jam.
* Information: www.whiteoakblueg...>
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Two award-winning bluegrass music groups will headline this year’s White Oak Mountain Bluegrass Festival.
Cherryholmes won the 2005 International Bluegrass Music Award for entertainer of the year. Since then the family group of four adult children and their parents has received four Grammy nominations.
Their co-headliner is Grasstowne. Their debut album, “The Road Headin’ Home,” was named 2008 album of the year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America. All members of the acoustic quintet are veteran bluegrass musicians.
Also in the lineup is Blue Moon Rising, whoser newest album, “One Lonely Shadow,” was released in fall of 2008 and rose to No. 1 in CashBox Magazine.
Among the other bands scheduled to appear are the Lone Mountain Band, Just Us Bluegrass Band and Hiwassee Ridge, festival chairwoman Jordia Waller said.
“We are looking forward to a great event with an incredible line-up of talent,” she said.
The festival began in 2000 as the first buildings were being constructed at the Tri-State Exhibition Center, said Melissa Woody, vice president of the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce Visitors and Convention Bureau. More than 2,000 people attended.
The show is now in a 70,000 square-foot covered arena and grew to a multi-day event in 2007, she said.
Randall Higgins covers news in Cleveland, Tenn., for the Times Free Press. He started work with the Chattanooga Times in 1977 and joined the staff of the Chattanooga Times Free Press when the Free Press and Times merged in 1999. Randall has covered Southeast Tennessee, Northwest Georgia and Alabama. He now covers Cleveland and Bradley County and the neighboring region. Randall is a Cleveland native. He has bachelor’s degree from Tennessee Technological University. His awards ...
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