The mountains of East Tennessee are full of stories - resulting largely from thousands of years of indigenous and pilgrimed peoples living across the 1,500 mile mountain range - and the design of Smoky Mountain Tunes and Tales aims to bring those stories straight to you as you visit us in the summer.
Starting June 12th and extending to August 8th in the year of our Lord, 2009, Smoky Mountain Tunes and Tales is a summer-length event across downtown Gatlinburg promising and providing a host of entertaining characters and performances featuring costumed musical performers, storytellers and artisans portraying various time periods from the 1800s to today. Nearly a dozen acts involve the audience as they each perform in simultaneous ten-minute performances throughout the night.
Past performances included good old-fashioned bluegrass, acoustic music, dulcimer, dancing, psaltry, music on a wagon driving through downtown Gatlinburg and, of course, Zeno the Bear. We can expect many of these performances to return as they grew in popularity over the last couple years that Smoky Mountain Tunes and Tales has been in operation. This is a relatively new tradition for Gatlinburg, but one that, given its popularity so far, will be a tradition for some years to come!
Smoky Mountain Tunes and Tales is an all-across-downtown-Gatlinburg event and is free to the public all summer long. Don't miss Gatlinburg's new favorite summer activity!
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