BRHJA Annual Spring Premier Horse Show

The Blue Ridge Hunter Jumper Association invites you to its annual spring premier horse show!  This event is sanctioned by the BRHJA, NCHJA, SCHJA and PSJ.  Featuring $500 Child/Adult Jumper Classic and $2500 level Gamblers Choice.  Spectators are welcome.

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Shakespeare Weekend 2010 at The Orchard Inn

The Shakespeare Weekend at The Orchard Inn is once again in the works!  Pamela Royston Macfie, Samuel R. Williamson University Professor, University of the South at Sewanee, will lead the delightfully entertaining and informative series of discussions on two of the bard’s plays and some sonnets too. 

The March 19-21, 2010  weekend begins with the gracious hour Friday at 6:00 PM and an overview of Elizabethan drama.  There follows dinner by reservation.  Dinner at the Inn is an extraordinary experience in itself, with four courses and a mountain view to boot.  Saturday morning after a scrumptious breakfast, Professor Macfie will discuss the first play (Hamlet or Twelfth Night)  and adjourn before lunch.  Guests have that afternoon for lunching, hiking, napping, shopping or reading.  The group reconvenes about 4:30 for the second play, followed by another memorable dinner.  Sonnets will be on the agenda Sunday morning after breakfast, and the weekend will close by 11 AM.

Dinner for two both evenings, breakfasts, program and one Second Floor room for two nights is $595, excluding tax and service charge.  Call now for reservations!

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FENCE Family Concert Plays 'Name that Tune'

Bring your family and enjoy world class music performed live in the Great Room at FENCE on the third Sunday each month.  The event is free and refreshments are served.

This month's concert will add to the proceedings as the Brevard-based group "Strings Attached" will invite audience members to identify selections on the afternoon's free-form program.  "Strings Attached" is a trio formed three years ago consisting of violin and guitar, and was the creation of violinist Peggy Cheathem.  Repertoire ranges through pop, jazz and rock with a bit of "gypsy music" mixed in for good measure.  The FENCE concert will include a number of "Name that Tune" numbers from the 1940's to the 1960's.  Peggy Cheathem holds a degree in music education and performance from Converse and will be joined by guitarist Paul Jones, a graduate of the University of Florida.

For more information call us at 828-859-9021.

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Eric Taylor Performs for The Purple Onion's Concert Series

Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.

This event is another in The Purple Onion's special Sunday evening concert series.  Don't miss it!

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