Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News: Campground Re-opening for Bluegrass Music Shows After 30 Years

ktproductions wrote: on Mar. 21, 2009:
Playmore Beach Campground, located in Lenoir NC, is re-opening after 30 years. The campground was once a great place to camp and have a great time. It had rides like an amusement park, and the Johns River is running at the edge of the campground. In the Years of its "hey-day" Playmore Beach had a fish camp as well, and many of the great Bluegrass artists from the past played in the fish camp like Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe and many more. Why do you ask did these bands play there, because it was and still is today one of the areas running between Charlotte, NC and Asheville, NC off I-40, and right near Hwy 181 and Hwy 18 running from either side of Morganton, NC up to Boone, NC and a great "halfway" stop for any band.

Over the years it was left to get rundown and get full of weeds and the trees have grown very large (that means shade). The floor of the old fish camp fell in and things really looked bad for the camp. Today things are looking great now that its under new management. The management is wanting to open its doors once again (the rides are gone and the fish camp will not be open this year). The camping is going to be great and the Bluegrass Music will be running once again, but this time the smaller bands will carry the load. These great local bluegrass bands are coming from all over the state of North Carolina to play in a legendary place and in a few years we hope to once again become one of the stopping places for the big bands.

If you are a band or know of a band in the great state of NC and think they would like to be an opening band for one of these shows please feel free to contact me (KT) at bluegrassindixie@gmail.com and keep looking at www.myspace.com/BluegrassInDixie for updates to the show. The campground information and address is 2165 Playmore Beach Rd Lenoir NC 28645 (you will need that for a map) and the phone number there is 828-758-2395.

I hope that if you are in the area that you would come to hear these great bands play. Most of these bands are looking to advance and move up the great ladder of success.

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