Saturday June 7, 2008
Call the Holly Theater box office at 706-864-3759.
The Mountain Music & Medicine is now featured on GPB Onstage!!
Broadcasts are on Sundays from 4 to 5 pm. Broadcast dates
are April 20, May 18, June 1, July 20, August 24,
September 28, October 19, November 9, and December 14.
You can be part of the broadcast! Come to the live shows and listen for yourself in the audience. Live shows are, June
7, August 2, and October 4.
Originating in Dahlonega, Georgia, the MOUNTAIN MUSIC
& MEDICINE SHOW has won three GABBY awards from the Georgia
Association of Broadcasters for the best locally produced radio program in
the State of Georgia. Amazing, especially considering that the MMMS is an all volunteer effort.
The setting is Dahlonega from Gold Rush days of the
early 1800s to modern times of the early 1950s---?Doc Johnson's traveling
Miracle Medicine Show has come to town and set up on the Square in front of
Nix's Store, the hub of local commerce and social center of the area. Doc brings musical acts of the time with
him as well as his own brand of humor while he exhorts folks to buy his "Wizard
Water" elixir for improving their lives.
He also showcases local talent on his show. Folks come from all around to hear the
music & Doc. His fast-paced
style and rapport with the crowd keeps toes a-tapping and things moving briskly
along. The scene occasionally
shifts to "street scene " short
skits where local people comment on the goings on of the day, mixing local
history, culture and humor in the unique Southern Appalachian style of the time
period. This is all presented in a
live old-time Radio broadcast; sort of like going back in time without leaving
your living room!
The Mountain Music and Medicine Show dates for 2008
are January 5, March 1, June 7, August 2, and October 4,
at the Historic Holly Theater on W. Main St. (just off the Square) in
Dahlonega. All shows are two hours, and are at 8pm, with $15
admission. We will follow the Holly system of assigned seating,
though all seats will be the same price.
The Holly box office
phone number is 706-864-3759--They will handle all ticket related
inquiries.