Many of this year's best-loved Bele Chere acts have been showcased in Mountain Xpress' own pages. Read on:
Al Petteway and Amy White
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(World) "World-music sensibilities [flow] from the loving hands of husband-and-wife duo Al Petteway and Amy White. The pair combines Celtic-grounded acoustic mastery on a variety of instruments, powered by White's angelic, New Age-flavored vocals."
-- A&E staff, 12/15/04
Saturday, Cafe Stage, 7-8 p.m.
Beth Wood
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(Folk) "I feel like I'm part of the [singer-songwriter] scene because all my songs start out really simply, with just a guitar and a voice. That's how I write. But also there's a part of me that feels I've never really fit in with that whole scene. My music tends to be darker."
-- Folkie Beth Wood shows her dark side to former Xpress reporter Marsha Barber, Rocking out in a folky world, 2/25/98
Friday, Cafe Stage, 3-4 p.m.
Bill Miller
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(Native American Traditional) "Bill Miller has been called the 'Altered Native,' influenced as much by the music of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Neil Young as by that of his Mohican ancestors."
-- Former Xpress reporter Margaret Williams, covering a local Native American conference, Pride and prejudice, 10/11/00. (Miller went on to win this year's Grammy for Best Native American Music Album, for Cedar Dream Songs
Friday, Cafe Stage, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Billy Jonas
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(Novelty) "Rhythm is what I live by ... It's how I organize my creative life, as well as my more mundane life. It's also how I organize my songwriting -- the rhythm of conceptual challenges with the rhythm of total silliness."
-- Billy Jonas, speaking to former Xpress reporter Frank Rabey, The Billy beat goes on, 11/27/02
Sunday, Cafe Stage, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Blue Collar Groove
(Jam) "Blue Collar Groove does such a good job of interpreting and applying the core elements of each style that it's hard not to find something to enjoy here."
-- Steve Shanafelt on the group's debut album, Premium, Random Acts, 2/18/04
Sunday, Homegrown Stage, 12-1 p.m.
Blueground Undergrass
(Jam) "You find this fish. You prepare. You know what you're going to catch. You get your bait, your tackle box -- you get in the boat. You go out there. You catch it. It starts fighting. You're like, 'Wow, this is great.' It's pulling on your drag. You pull it out of the water ... and it slowly just drops off."
-- Rev. Jeff Mosier of Blueground Undergrass, offering a metaphor to Xpress reporter Stuart Gaines, The one that (almost) got away, 1/19/05
Saturday, Biltmore Stage, 7-8:30 p.m.
The Codetalkers featuring Col. Bruce Hampton
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(Jam) "Even the enigmatic singer/guitarist himself -- an underrated artistic visionary equal in appallingly beautiful purpose to the likes of Salvador Dali, Frank Zappa or any Black Mountain College alumnus -- is reluctant to pinpoint his genius."
-- Xpress reporter Stuart Gaines on Col. Bruce Hampton, Father of invention, 10/13/04
Friday, Biltmore Stage, 7-8:30 p.m.
Corey Harris
(Blues) "['Sista Rose'] is a very fun song to play. It's very danceable. It's also a song that travels well. People seem to really feel that tune when I take it to Africa or down here in Guyana."
-- Corey Harris, who called former Xpress reporter Nicholas Holt from South America, Going out with a bang, 9/18/02
Friday, Cafe Stage, 6-7:30 p.m.
Dave Goldberg and Duane Allen
(Jazz) "They play bebop the way it was meant to be, um, bopped."
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