June 2007 Archives

The Christmas Place in Pigeon Forge will hold a garden “garden party” June 16 and 17. There will be face painting for children, entertainment provided by local character performers “Team Kirkwood” and demonstrations. All activities are free. The schedule for these events will be as follows:
-Face painting for children, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
- “Team Kirkwood” noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
- Toy demonstrations, throughout the event
- Wreath-making demonstration, Saturday at 10 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m.
- Bow-tying class, 11 a.m. Saturday.
- Cookie decorating class, 10 a.m., 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
All Fathers visiting on Sunday will receive a free gift and special entertainment by “Team Kirkwood”
The Christmas Place is located at 2470 Parkway. Call 865-453-0415 for more information.

The streets of Gatlinburg will be filled with unique characters sharing stories about the Great Smoky Mountains, its inhabitants, and the music of Appalachia. Smoky Mountain Tunes and Tales now begins nine weeks of free entertainment for residents and visitors alike.
One of the new characters introduced this year includes Miss Nan, a vivacious who was a schoolteacher in Gatlinburg in the early 1900’s to the 1930s. Ginger Brown will be portraying Miss Nan during Tunes and Tales.

Gatlinburg's Smoky Mountain Tunes & Tales, featuring costumed musical performers, storytellers and artisans portraying time periods as far back as 1800, will begin in downtown Gatlinburg on June 8. It will run through Sept. 3.
A collection of personalities and performers arrive nightly at 5:30 via horse-drawn wagon in the center of town. Characters disperse along the downtown Parkway for entertainment and storytelling until 10 p.m. Fifteen to twenty nightly acts involve the audience as they each perform in 15-minute productions.

The landscape of entertainment in Pigeon Forge may be about to change. Now that Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Theater has been officially confirmed for the former Boyds Bear Country site, some top performers are scheduled to be part of a summer concert series, according to a marketing consultant working with the company.
Steve Ellis, who is working with Dick Clark Productions on the project, said the following performers are tentatively confirmed for the concert series:
Charlie Daniels, Clint Black, Wynonna, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Loggins, Jo Dee Messina, Neal McCoy, The Temptations, Glen Campbell, Diamond Rio, Tony Orlando, Beach Boys, Sandi Patty, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Weirs Al Yankovic, Casting Crowns, Pam Tillis, and Air Supply.