Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation Special Event:

The Charlie Daniels Band

Finale Fireworks Concert

"Few individuals have symbolized the South in popular culture as directly and indelibly as Charlie Daniels." - The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

When you hear a classic Charlie Daniels Band performance like "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," you hear music that knows no clear genre. Is it a folk tale? A southern boogie? A country fiddle tune? An electric rock anthem? The answer is, yes to all of that and more. And the same goes for "In America," "Uneasy Rider," "The South's Gonna Do It," "Long Haired Country Boy," "Still in Saigon," "The Legend of Wooley Swamp" and the rest of a catalog that spans more than 35 years of record making and represents more than 18 million in sales. For decades, he has steadfastly refused to label his music as anything other than "CDB music," music that is now sung around the fire at 4-H Club and scout camps, helped elect an American President, and been popularized on a variety of radio formats.

Charlie Daniels was raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, on a musical diet that included Pentecostal gospel, local bluegrass bands, rhythm and blues and country music.

His resume includes recording sessions with artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Flatt and Scruggs, Pete Seeger, Mark O'Connor, Leonard Cohen and Ringo Starr. His songs have been recorded by Elvis Presley and Tammy Wynette. His touring legend has been documented by ABC's 20/20. In 1985, he published a collection of short stories, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, peopled with the same kind of characters and tall tales as his songs.

It hasn't been so much a style of music, but more the values consistently reflected in several styles that has connected Charlie Daniels with millions of fans. With an unerring instinct for the universal ties that bind people together and an equal abhorrence for the intolerance and fear that do the opposite, Charlie Daniels has kept the specifics of his cultural heritage as the soul of the CDB music that has impacted lives of everyday people everywhere.

The season finale fireworks display will commence after the Charlie Daniels Band concert (approximately 9:30pm). The display will originate from the Bodenheimer Drive area (behind Kidd Brewer Stadium) and will be viewable from most locations in the town of Boone, including the Holmes Convocation Center and its environs. A reasonable period of time will be provided to allow concert-goers to exit the center before the beginning of the display.

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