An Evening in the Smokies CD by the Woodpickers

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About the CD

The Woodpickers and Friends compact disk has completed production and is now available. An Evening in the Smokies, featuring traditional old time, Irish, and original music, was released March 8 and is intended as a fund-raiser for the educational programs of Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. 

An Evening in the Smokies boasts a bevy of 21 tracks. There are 11 traditional songs, and 10 tracks of original first recorded releases of music written by the members of Woodpickers and Friends, including a track from Sam Crowe, entitled: A Hundred Years, and a Woodpickers version of the tune The Bluebird Song by Jean Ritchie. Other notable friends and collaborators on the CD include Jennifer Voorhis, wife of Ken Voorhis. Steve Kaufmann, Nancy Brennan-Strange and Jeremy Lloyd, Senior Teacher Naturalist at Tremont.

Core members of the Woodpickers band are Ken Voorhis, John Richardson, Richard Hilten and Jeanie Hilten.

"We love getting together to play music and have enjoyed sharing some of the tunes and tales of the Smokies with groups who visit Tremont. Picking the banjo, strumming a guitar, singing--these are activities that have been a part of people's lives here for many years. Music is a wonderful link between natural and human history and just a fun way to express our love for these mountains! The instruments on this CD are symbolic of the variety of people and traditions that are a part of our heritage--from the banjo that comes from Africa, to the European guitar and mandolin, to the Irish and Scottish tunes of the hammered dulcimer, whose origins are very ancient. I hope this album inspires folks to learn some of this mountain music themselves!"
--Jeanie Hilten

“The proceeds from CD purchases go to provide scholarships for Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont programs. This gives young people the chance to come to Tremont and take advantage of summer camp. There are so many other programs available to both children and adults here at Tremont, to have a home-grown CD with original music about where we live and work is another way to say thank you to those who make Tremont what it is today, and I personally want to thank my fellow musicians. I especially want to thank all the people who are purchasing the CD. I hope along with the listening enjoyment that they get satisfaction of being a part of making it possible for a child to attend Tremont.”
--Ken Voorhis

To Purchase An Evening in the Smokies

An Evening in the Smokies can be purchased for $19.95 (plus shipping/handling) by mailing or faxing in the order form on the Tremont Store page. It is also available in the bookstore at Tremont and will be available at all Great Smoky Mountains Association stores beginning in early April.

Listen to audio clips from the CD!

Whiskey Before Breakfast

Big Timber

An Conhra Donn

Download a copy of the complete liner notes with credits (PDF)