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* What: Sale Creek Opry New Year’s Eve party.* When: 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31.* Where: Sale Creek Lions Club, 15222 Coppinger Road, Sale Creek.* Admission: Free.* Email: floydbledsoe@ymail.com.
Floyd Bledsoe of the Cedar Creek Band.
Randy Hatfield of the Cedar Creek Band.Randy Hatfield, Floyd Bledsoe and other members of the Cedar Creek Band are asking friends old and new to help them ring in 2017 at the Sale Creek Opry on Saturday, Dec. 31. The party lasts from 7 to 11 p.m., giving everyone a chance to get home or elsewhere by the stroke of midnight.
"We'll have good music, great food, great friends and lots of fun for the whole family," says a news release from the musicians. "You won't need a baby sitter because you can bring all the kids. They're welcome here. Bring Grandma too. You won't have to worry about anybody drinking, cussing, or fighting, or causing a scene."
Held each Saturday at the Sale Creek Lions Club, the Sale Creek Opry is a family-friendly place "for folks who don't want to go to a honky-tonk, beer joint or nightclub, or any other place you wouldn't want to take your kids or your mom," the release says.
The musicians say they'd like to issue "a special invitation and thanks" to everyone who visited the Opry during 2016.
"We spent the whole year providing folks with a place to go on Saturday evening where they can enjoy their kind of classic country and gospel music, good food and fun with friends in an alcohol-free environment," the news release says.
"Even better, the admission is completely free."
The Cedar Creek Band plays "good, old, honest country music," sometimes with some "toe-tapping, pew-hopping, old-time gospel medleys" thrown in.
Visitors have been known to dance, sing along or just sit and listen.
"You will still be able to talk to your friends because we don't blast the music so loud it makes your ears bleed the way they do in some of those beer joints downtown," says the release.
A table is set up with games, toys and coloring books to entertain the kids.