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Great Smoky Mountains National Park has announced two one-hour long musical performances, featuring Paul Grace and the Boogertown Gap band, beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 9, and Saturday, October 24. The musicians will be performing in the Cades Cove Campground Amphitheater and the events are free to the public.

October 9 – Paul Grace is a well known folk musician from Columbia, Mo., and has been performing for over 25 years, spending many years touring North America with his wife and daughters. Now a solo performer, he is a versatile vocalist and instrumentalist on fiddle, guitar, mandolin and harmonica. Grace has musical roots in the Ozarks and the Appalachians, as well as early influences of the Kingston Trio and other members of the Folk Revival. Grace will present a wide variety of songs and styles from fiddle tunes to lovely ballads.

October 24 - Boogertown Gap band, composed of Ruth Barber and Keith Watson, specializes in traditional songs and tunes played on a variety of stringed instruments. The wife and husband duo, who currently resides in Pittman Center, Tenn, performs old-time and Celtic music throughout East Tennessee. They are known to share the music, folklore and stories of their ancestors and descendants of the Southern Appalachians who have shaped the timeless music of the mountains. Boogertown Gap attempts to stay “traditional” by performing music from the pre-recording industrial period, playing a lot of tunes from the minstrel antebellum period and the years during and after the Civil War.