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by Carey King
Dillsboro will be decked out for its 20th annual Festival of Lights
and Luminaries this Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6.
Starting at dusk, more than 2,000 candles will light the streets,
merchants will offer holiday treats to visitors, and a variety
of entertainers will perform around town.
The Dillsboro Merchants Association sponsors the town's annual
Christmas event, which will be repeated the following Friday and
Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13.
"We're going to turn Dillsboro into everybody's little Christmas
town," said entertainment coordinator Karen Barnes, owner
of Riverwood Pottery.
The Cullowhee Valley School Cloggers are slated to perform both
nights this weekend on the platform at the Great Smoky Mountain
Railroad, but the time has not yet been set, Barnes said.
Local entertainers who'd like to perform this weekend or next
(Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12-13) are still welcome to volunteer.
Call Barnes at 586-3601 or Stacey Hepp, owner of Dillsboro Chocolate
Factory and festival coordinator, at 631-0156.
A tentative entertainment schedule is listed below:
Friday, Dec. 5
5 p.m - Highland Pipes and Drums at Riverwood Shops.
5:15 p.m. - Highland Pipes and Drums begin their march to Enloe
Marketplace.
5:30 p.m. - Cullowhee Valley Elementary School Choir at the Dillsboro
Chocolate Factory; Highland Pipes and Drums at Enloe Marketplace.
6 to 8 p.m. - Henry Wong, caroler, at Bradley General Store; Smoky
Mountain Strings, fiddle and washtub bass, at the Imagination
Station; Chuck Norris Group, bluegrass, in the Jarrett Memorial
Baptist Church fellowship hall.
6 to 9 p.m. - Sugar & Friends featuring Marshall Ballew, jazz,
at Riverwood Shops.
6:15 p.m. - Highlands Pipes and Drums at the Jarrett House.
6:30 p.m. - Pick ‘n' Play Dulcimers at the Oaks Gallery in
the Riverwood Shops.
7 to 8 p.m. - Big Empty Bucket, jazz, at Treehouse Pottery.
Saturday, Dec. 6
6 p.m. - Smoky Mountain High School Band will carol through town.
6 to 8 p.m. - Henry Wong, caroler, at Treehouse Pottery; Smoky
Mountain Strings, fiddle and washtub bass, at the Imagination
Station; Chuck Norris Group, bluegrass, in the Jarrett Memorial
Baptist Church fellowship hall.
6 to 9 p.m. - Sugar & Friends, jazz, at Riverwood Shops; Marilyn
McReady, dulcimer, at Bradley General Store.
6:30 p.m. - Pick ‘n' Play Dulcimers at the Oaks Gallery in
the Riverwood Shops.
7 p.m. - Bound by Grace, a four-woman group, at Front Street Company.
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