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Open 1-5 PM
Tuesday - Sunday
May - September
Closed Mondays
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There are many resources available on the Internet. The
Links
page list some we think may be useful. The list of links may change.
Please come back and check it often. Other information is listed below |
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"Music on the Lawn"
Bring lawn chairs and experience an
old-fashioned outdoor concert. Although the concerts are free, donations
are welcome. In case of rain, the music will be moved to the barn. Check
calendar for schedule.
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Banjos In Blue Jeans
(usually in July) |
is a 5-member music ensemble
featuring Eddie Benge and Bert Lee on tenor banjos, Daisy Dell on rhythm
guitar, and Don Lee on bass. They play country, bluegrass, and gospel
music, and have been a great hit at the Hitchcock House in past years, The
band has also played at the Iowa State Fair, the National Old Time Country
and Bluegrass Festival, and many other contests, festivals, and events
throughout Iowa. |
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Bob Everhart
(usually in August) |
is the President of the National
Traditional Country Music Association, Inc., a 501c non-profit
corporation, since 1976. He has performed old-time traditional country,
folk, and bluegrass music for 25 years. He recorded six LP's for the
prestigious Smithsonian-Folkways Records, one of them a Grammy nomination.
Three of the LP's were re-released on foreign labels: Westwood of Great
Britain, Folk Variety of Germany, and Country Circle in Austria. He also
recorded special sessions in Ireland, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Germany,
and had CD's of these sessions released in Europe. A special video was
made in Mexico of his own composition "No One Comes Near," and the Grammy
nomination was for another original called "Time After Time."
He has recorded six other cassettes for Prairie Music Records in the USA.
He has made over 22 concert-tours of Europe in the last 20 years, and will
make his next one with wife Sheila in 2001. They performed on the World
Music Event, "America's Traditional Music and Dance Festival" in Dublin,
Ireland, in November of 2000. Bob created, and host-produced the
successful PBS television program "Old Time Country Music", which aired in
22 states. He also produced and hosted a syndicated radio program called
the "The Old Time Music Hour'. His current project is a radio program
called "Bus Stop," and is working on finding a co-producer for a
television program called "Tradition." He was recently the recipient of a
"Lifetime Achievement Award" from World Music Events. He is listed in
"Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in International Music," and "Who's Who
in Country Music."
He is a Kentucky Colonel, and has performed with some of the best names in
music. His Association, the NTCMA has been conducting tours and programs
in Mexico for a number of years, and presented the first "American
Traditional Music and Dance Festival" in Vienna, Austria in 1998. Their
second one is in Dublin, Ireland, in 2001. He is proficient on 12-string
guitar and harmonica, and he and his wife Sheila perform throughout the
Midwest and Europe. |
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| Sheila Everhart |
Bob's Wife since 1992 (With their only
child Bobbie Lhea born October 3, 1996) accompanies him on upright bass,
and clog dances in the early Ozark Mountain style. She gives workshops in
both areas (Bob does workshops on 12-string guitar, harmonica, music
presentation work, and effective festival management). Sheila maintains
the couple's homes in Walnut and Anita, Iowa, as well as Vera Cruz,
Mexico.
She co-produces the radio program "Old Time Music House" which is taped at
their performance center. She is President of Prairie Music Records, and
is a professional photographer with photos appearing in Bluegrass
Unlimited, Bluegrass Now, and Tradition Magazine, and is a first runner-up
in a National Geographic Photo contest. She is a competent press agent and
talent promoter, and has served regularly as a judge for the Jimmy
Dean/True Value County Show-Downs. She co-directs the National Old Time
Country Music Festival and Contest at Avoca, Iowa.
She was the "People's Choice" performer (clog dancing) at the Two Rivers
Festival in Denison, Iowa in 1990, and is Advertising Director for
Tradition Magazine.
Bob & Shelia Everhart, PO Box 492, Anita, IA 50020 (712)762-4363. |
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