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April 19-24, 2021 @ Snowbird Mountain Lodge

Birding, Yoga & Old-Time Appalachian Music w/ Ruth Barber & Keith Watson

Sharing their love of the Great Smoky Mountains nature, culture, music, and history.

Events are reserved for Snowbird Mountain Lodge Guests. 

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Ruth Barber and Keith Watson are from the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. They are wife and husband, and together they perform Old-time Mountain Music as Boogertown Gap. Their musical performance includes stories, history and folklore of the music, ballads, fiddle tunes, dance tunes and spirituals performed in traditional styles and on traditional instruments: fiddle, guitar, clawhammer banjo, pennywhistle, spoons, washboard, washtub bass and Native American flute.

Keith Watson has a Master’s Degree in Entomology and works as a bird biologist and birding guide. Ruth, “The Spoon Lady of Tennessee”, has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Flute Performance and studied Ethnomusicology. In the 21st Century they have set aside their previous careers to focus on preserving the old traditional music of the Appalachians, and to share and teach it to interested folks. They have five published CDs.  

April 19-24, 2021 @ Snowbird Mountain Lodge

Birding, Yoga & Old-Time Appalachian Music w/ Ruth Barber & Keith Watson

Sharing their love of the Great Smoky Mountains nature, culture, music, and history.

Events are reserved for Snowbird Mountain Lodge Guests. 

Make reservations.

Ruth Barber and Keith Watson are from the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. They are wife and husband, and together they perform Old-time Mountain Music as Boogertown Gap. Their musical performance includes stories, history and folklore of the music, ballads, fiddle tunes, dance tunes and spirituals performed in traditional styles and on traditional instruments: fiddle, guitar, clawhammer banjo, pennywhistle, spoons, washboard, washtub bass and Native American flute.

Keith Watson has a Master’s Degree in Entomology and works as a bird biologist and birding guide. Ruth, “The Spoon Lady of Tennessee”, has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Flute Performance and studied Ethnomusicology. In the 21st Century they have set aside their previous careers to focus on preserving the old traditional music of the Appalachians, and to share and teach it to interested folks. They have five published CDs.  

April 19-24, 2021 @ Snowbird Mountain Lodge

Birding, Yoga & Old-Time Appalachian Music w/ Ruth Barber & Keith Watson

Sharing their love of the Great Smoky Mountains nature, culture, music, and history.

Events are reserved for Snowbird Mountain Lodge Guests. 

Make reservations.

Ruth Barber and Keith Watson are from the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. They are wife and husband, and together they perform Old-time Mountain Music as Boogertown Gap. Their musical performance includes stories, history and folklore of the music, ballads, fiddle tunes, dance tunes and spirituals performed in traditional styles and on traditional instruments: fiddle, guitar, clawhammer banjo, pennywhistle, spoons, washboard, washtub bass and Native American flute.

Keith Watson has a Master’s Degree in Entomology and works as a bird biologist and birding guide. Ruth, “The Spoon Lady of Tennessee”, has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Flute Performance and studied Ethnomusicology. In the 21st Century they have set aside their previous careers to focus on preserving the old traditional music of the Appalachians, and to share and teach it to interested folks. They have five published CDs.  

April 19-24, 2021 @ Snowbird Mountain Lodge

Birding, Yoga & Old-Time Appalachian Music w/ Ruth Barber & Keith Watson

Sharing their love of the Great Smoky Mountains nature, culture, music, and history.

Events are reserved for Snowbird Mountain Lodge Guests. 

Make reservations.

Ruth Barber and Keith Watson are from the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. They are wife and husband, and together they perform Old-time Mountain Music as Boogertown Gap. Their musical performance includes stories, history and folklore of the music, ballads, fiddle tunes, dance tunes and spirituals performed in traditional styles and on traditional instruments: fiddle, guitar, clawhammer banjo, pennywhistle, spoons, washboard, washtub bass and Native American flute.

Keith Watson has a Master’s Degree in Entomology and works as a bird biologist and birding guide. Ruth, “The Spoon Lady of Tennessee”, has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Flute Performance and studied Ethnomusicology. In the 21st Century they have set aside their previous careers to focus on preserving the old traditional music of the Appalachians, and to share and teach it to interested folks. They have five published CDs.  

April 19-24, 2021 @ Snowbird Mountain Lodge

Birding, Yoga & Old-Time Appalachian Music w/ Ruth Barber & Keith Watson

Sharing their love of the Great Smoky Mountains nature, culture, music, and history.

Events are reserved for Snowbird Mountain Lodge Guests. 

Make reservations.

Ruth Barber and Keith Watson are from the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. They are wife and husband, and together they perform Old-time Mountain Music as Boogertown Gap. Their musical performance includes stories, history and folklore of the music, ballads, fiddle tunes, dance tunes and spirituals performed in traditional styles and on traditional instruments: fiddle, guitar, clawhammer banjo, pennywhistle, spoons, washboard, washtub bass and Native American flute.

Keith Watson has a Master’s Degree in Entomology and works as a bird biologist and birding guide. Ruth, “The Spoon Lady of Tennessee”, has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Flute Performance and studied Ethnomusicology. In the 21st Century they have set aside their previous careers to focus on preserving the old traditional music of the Appalachians, and to share and teach it to interested folks. They have five published CDs.  

April 19-24, 2021 @ Snowbird Mountain Lodge

Birding, Yoga & Old-Time Appalachian Music w/ Ruth Barber & Keith Watson

Sharing their love of the Great Smoky Mountains nature, culture, music, and history.

Events are reserved for Snowbird Mountain Lodge Guests. 

Make reservations.

Ruth Barber and Keith Watson are from the mountains of Eastern Tennessee. They are wife and husband, and together they perform Old-time Mountain Music as Boogertown Gap. Their musical performance includes stories, history and folklore of the music, ballads, fiddle tunes, dance tunes and spirituals performed in traditional styles and on traditional instruments: fiddle, guitar, clawhammer banjo, pennywhistle, spoons, washboard, washtub bass and Native American flute.

Keith Watson has a Master’s Degree in Entomology and works as a bird biologist and birding guide. Ruth, “The Spoon Lady of Tennessee”, has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Flute Performance and studied Ethnomusicology. In the 21st Century they have set aside their previous careers to focus on preserving the old traditional music of the Appalachians, and to share and teach it to interested folks. They have five published CDs.  

Join Snowbird for our annual Memorial Day Celebration, Saturday, May 29, 2021.

BBQ & Bluegrass.

Celebrate Independence Day weekend family-style with an old-fashioned BBQ on the lawn. Please join us for a summertime feast of house-smoked pork, grilled burgers, ribs, and all the fixins you can imagine. The Carolina Bluegrass Boys will be on hand to entertain us with some foot-stompin’ bluegrass music and humorous anecdotes on the front porch during and after supper. Our dining room will be open for the usual sumptuous meals that guests have grown to love for the rest of the weekend.

(Please note that vegetarian diets and special dietary needs may be accommodated with prior notice during these weekends.)

3-night minimum stay on holiday weekends.

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Join Snowbird for our annual Independence Day Celebration, Saturday, July 3, 2021.

BBQ & Bluegrass.

Celebrate Independence Day weekend family-style with an old-fashioned BBQ on the lawn. Please join us for a summertime feast of house-smoked pork, grilled burgers, ribs, and all the fixins you can imagine. The Carolina Bluegrass Boys will be on hand to entertain us with some foot-stompin’ bluegrass music and humorous anecdotes on the front porch during and after supper. Our dining room will be open for the usual sumptuous meals that guests have grown to love for the rest of the weekend.

(Please note that vegetarian diets and special dietary needs may be accommodated with prior notice during these weekends.)

3-night minimum stay on holiday weekends.