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Dove Award-winning Difference Media recording artist Canton Junction is set to bring their “Get Your Praise On” tour to the Gatlinburg Convention Center on Friday, Aug. 19, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. as a part of the weekend long Gatlinburg Gathering event. The evening will also feature Canton Junction founding member Pastor Matt Hagee as a featured speaker. Join us for ...

Sweet Fanny Adams Theatre in Gatlinburg was honored Friday night as State Senator Doug Overbey helped present the official Senate Proclamation recognizing the theatre’s 40th season of performing shows. Don and Pat MacPherson founded Sweet Fanny Adams in May of 1977, making it the longest running entertainment theater in the Smokies. Since then, it has become a staple family business, ...

The sounds of some of the biggest hits in country, gospel and bluegrass music will resonate through the streets of Gatlinburg when Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival comes to town Aug. 24–28, 2016. The festival, now in its fifth season, will feature over 130 acts of songwriters and musicians who have shaped the top Billboard charts for generations as well as ...

Grand Ole Opry member and Grammy Award winner Joe Diffie will rock the 2016 Patriot Festival, Pigeon Forge’s annual blowout to celebrate July 4, immediately before a spectacular fireworks show brightens the sky over this Great Smoky Mountains resort city. Activity begins at noon, and onstage entertainment begins at 1:30 p.m. for guests at Patriot Park. Admission is free. In ...

Pointing to the immense popularity of East Tennessee’s favorite entertainment icon, tickets for Dolly Parton’s Nov. 15 Pure & Simple concert at the LeConte Center in Pigeon Forge have sold out. Tickets went on sale to Dollywood season passholders on June 15. Remaining tickets were made available to the general public the morning of July 1 and sold out that day. ...

The season of summer fun has arrived in Gatlinburg and it comes with no shortage of activities for the whole family. This summer, visitors will have the chance to spend their evenings enjoying live entertainment, attending award-winning Independence Day festivities and getting a firsthand look at unique items hand-crafted in Gatlinburg for generations. Gatlinburg’s award-winning Fourth of July Midnight Parade ...

Tickets for Dolly Parton’s Pure & Simple concert at LeConte Center in Pigeon Forge went on sale today for Dollywood season passholders, but a website glitch left frustrated ticket buyers flooding the attraction’s phone lines. Excitement about Dolly’s concert here in her home county has been building since she first announced that her Pure & Simple concert tour included a ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park invites the public to celebrate the National Park Service Centennial with Music in the American Wild for two live performances of music from eleven composers and seven performers, all affiliated with Eastman School of Music in upstate New York. The group is traveling to various National Parks in the country and will play two concerts ...

Local and out-of-town guests gathered in downtown Sevierville for an opportunity to enjoy great food and world-class bluegrass music at Sevierville’s 12th Annual Bloomin’ Barbeque & Bluegrass festival held May 20 and 21, 2016. Forty-six cook teams attended the Bush’s Best Tennessee State Championship Barbeque Cook-Off held during the event, with Checkered Pig of Martinsville, Va. claiming Grand Champion while ...

Sevierville’s twelfth annual Bloomin’ Barbeque & Bluegrass will take place May 20-21, 2016. This family-friendly event will once again bring barbeque cook teams from all over the United States to Sevierville to compete for $17,500 in cash and prizes and the title of Tennessee State Champion in the Bush’s Best TN State Championship Cook Off. Rounding out the event is ...