Daniel Boone would be proud.
From within a town that bears his name comes a festival that celebrates his pioneering spirit with local and national touring bands, an educational symposium featuring award-winning authors and historians, living history, Fess Parker wine dinners, a World Record attempt, fun & games, children’s activities and more High Country-imbued fun and hospitality than you can shake a stick at.
For the 2nd annual Daniel Boone Days Music & Culture Festival—scheduled for Friday and Saturday, September 4 and 5, 2009—organizers invite locals, visitors, adults, seniors and children to “come on up and get down” and enjoy the music, heritage, history, hospitality and camaraderie that embodies the community spirit of the North Carolina High Country. …
Daniel Boone Days is the Town of Boone’s official annual festival. The two-day event, which is held annually on Labor Day, replaced the now-defunct Kraut Creek Festival, and its former sponsor, the Downtown Boone Development Association, now funds the Annual Dr. Edwin Arnold Daniel Boone Symposium as part of Daniel Boone Days. High Country Press, Mountain Fountain Productions, the Town of Boone, Horn in the West, Blue Ridge Parkway 75, Inc., the Watauga Education Foundation, and many more local entities annually sponsor the event.
Sam Calhoun, managing editor of High Country Press and owner of Mountain Fountain Productions, and Ken Ketchie, editor and publisher of High Country Press and High Country Magazine, developed the idea for Daniel Boone Days in 2007. Calhoun and Ketchie identified the need for a unifying celebration for the Town of Boone—a celebration that highlighted the town’s namesake and the town’s talented community—and went to work planning, organizing and implementing the inaugural Daniel Boone Days in September 2008 with the help of many gracious townspeople. The inaugural festival featured award-winning author Robert Morgan, Fess Parker wine dinners, a running race to the top of Howard’s Knob, a setting of a new World Record for the “Most People Dressed Like Daniel Boone at One Time,” a music and culture festival featuring The Waybacks and Larry Keel, and, of course, a promise to do it again.
Thus, Daniel Boone Days is back for 2009, and it’s bigger, better and features a well-rounded offering of events that will cater to young, old and everyone in between. In fact, every age group will find new things to enjoy at this year’s event, as organizers have worked hard to listen to feedback and create new elements to this community-based event. So, take a peak around the website, use our tools to plan your trip and we’ll see you in September in the High Country for a little dancing, learning, smiling and good ol’ mountain catharsis.
Come on up to get down.
-Sam CalhounRead MoreClose
