Our annual starry tradition is happening again, a wonderful evening of music, food, beverages, and family fun! The evening’s highlight will be a singer-songwriter circle featuring some great local musicians and songwriters. Each artist will share his or her unique musical talents one song at a time, then pass the mic to the next. This year our songwriters will be Charly Lowry, Rebekah Todd, Tommy Edwards, Big Ron Hunter, and Ashley Heath!
Opening up the night will be Carolina Pine Cones, a youth bluegrass band (ages 14-18) that performs throughout Raleigh and the Triangle area. The group met through the summer Bluegrass Jam Camps and year-round Youth Jams offered by PineCone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music.
As our new tradition goes…closing out the show will be our great friends from, Dr. Bacon! Dr. Bacon is a genre defying “Appalachian Funk-Rock” band from Asheville, NC playing an infectiously danceable blend of funk, soul, jazz, rock, blues, folk, hip-hop and more. The band features diverse instrumentation including: guitars, resonator, harmonica, bass, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone drums, trombone, kazoo and more.
We’ll have a nice roundup of local food trucks including Breakfast & Beyond and Ko Kyu, as well as Yee Haw Doughnuts. Our staff and volunteers will be serving up cold brews from Carolina Brewery, sangria from Fair Game Beverage Company, and cider from our new friends, Chatham Cider Works.
Bring the whole family (kids 12 and under get in free) and camp out under the stars! All profits from the event go directly to the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center to help advance our mission in the community.
NC Stars in the Round
Shakori Hills
1439 Henderson Tanyard Road
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Doors – 4pm, Music – 7pm
$12 in advance / $17 at gate (kids 12 and under free)
$10 to camp (up to 1 car and 2 tents)
Sponsors for the event include: Carolina Brewery, Fair Game Beverage Company, Griffin Contracting, Music Maker Relief Foundation, South of Cool Sound Productions, Shakori Hills Community Arts Center, Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, and Universal Printing. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of this event, please email shakorihills@grassrootfest.org or call 919-542-8142.
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The 7th Annual NC Stars in the Round will be happening on Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 7pm. Mark your calendars now for an evening of song and dance under the summer stars!
North Carolina has such amazing talent! We’re so excited to bring you some of it’s great songwriters and bands on this special yearly event.
The evening’s highlight will be a singer-songwriter circle featuring some great local musicians and songwriters. Each artist will share his or her unique musical talents one song at a time, then pass the mic to the next. The stars include: 
Opening the show will be 
Closing out the show will be our great friends, 
Come out to Shakori Hills on Saturday, August 23rd for our 5th Annual NC Stars in the Round Fundraiser. It’s the perfect way to spend a summer evening with friends & festival family! All funds from the event will go toward the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center to carry out our mission of being a center for arts educa
some great local musicians and songwriters. This year we have the special treat in our host of the circle, Jim Lauderdale! Jim will introduce each songwriter, each will share 
his or her unique musical talents one song at a time, then pass the mic to the next. The stars include: 
Following the circle, Jim Lauderdale will wow us with his own style of country and Americana songwriting (and outfit, surely)!
Tickets are $15 advance or $20 at the gate, camping is $15 per site (which includes a vehicle and two tents) and can be purchased online or by calling 919-542-8142. Kids 12 and under get in free! Tickets are available from now until the day before the event. Gates open at 4pm, show starts at 7pm.
The HuLaLas, from Asheville, NC, come to us like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Hawaiian frenzy fire that was the Hula Cats! Scott Sharpe (of Steelin’ Time, The Good Old Boys, and the incredible Blue Rags) on steel guitar, Cary Fridley (of Down South and Freight Hoppers) on bass & sweet, sweet vocals, and Jason Krekel (of the Mad Tea, Snake Oil Medicine Show, Larry Keel, & more) on the guitar and cracked vocals and heck maybe even the ukulele will all be shredding the Happa Haole Hawaiian hits as only mainlander country folk can do, and melting faces with steel guitar rags and the top 40 hits of the 20’s & 30’s…the perfect accompaniment to a pig roastin’ lei-wearin’ hula dancin’ party!
