The Sounds of music.......
I remember sitting on our deck in Shell Knob and hearing music drift over the waters of Table Rock Lake. We had just moved to our Shell Knob home a few months earlier. It was facinating for this City Girl to see lizards zipping around the Ozark rocks; Armadillos rooting in the yard; birds everywhere - which I had never seen before, and now........MUSIC On The Water!
That was 20 years ago, and the music stopped soon after that summer. We learned that what we heard were concerts at the Swiss Villa Amphitheater. It was host to entertainers such as The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Randy Travis, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Ozzie Osborn, but fell on hard times. The Villa closed, deteriorated, then had a fire that took care of what was left.
A new amphitheater has been built and renamed 'Black Oak Mountain Amphitheater'. It will open Memorial Week end with Lee Greenwood. There are 5,400 reserved seats, with room for 2,000 more General Admission grassy seating, according to amphitheater manager Steven White.
Several big names have been lined up for this season by John McEuen, a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. This initial 2010 Season will include entertainment by Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Styx, Kansas, and Foreigner, with Travis Tritt and Tanya Tucker scheduled for June 11th.
Looks like - or should I say 'Sounds Like' - I will be nicely entertained on my waterfront deck this summer.
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