June 18, 2006
 
Timberline Sponsors Celtic Music Festival June 23-24
 
By HNN Staff
 

JB Tenney will appear at Timberline Four Seasons Resort’s Celtic Music Festival playing traditional Irish and Scottish music on fiddle, guitar, bagpipes and mandolin. He will be joined by Blain Stevens, Cyris Kymbral and Pete Tenney June 23rd and 24th.

Davis, WV (HNN) -- As part of the ongoing summer themed musical festivals Timberline Four Seasons Resort will feature Celtic music this coming weekend. This is in keeping with the resort’s spot light on the vast musical heritage of this portion of West Virginia.
 
Although the Celts as an individual race are long gone, Celtic culture and music is increasing in popularity nationally as well as regionally. The connection between Irish and Scottish music is expressed in Celtic style music and there is an obvious influence of these earlier musical styles on the music now being performed in the Appalachian Mountains of this area.
 
Generally traditional Celtic music originated in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Galicia and more recently in the United States and the maritime provinces of Canada. The close association of Celtic and current country and mountain music is exemplified in performances of West Virginia’s Grammy Award-winning country music star Kathy Mattea who has emerged as a critically acclaimed artist in the ethnic music of her West Virginia roots: folk, Celtic and blue grass.
 
Timberline’s Celtic weekend will take place 8:00 p.m. Friday, June 23, 2006 and 3 p.m. Saturday, June 24, 2006 rain or shine, all at the ski lodge. Appearing at the weekend Celtic Festival will be J.B. Tenney and father, Pete Tenney, playing traditional Irish and Scottish music on Irish fiddle, guitar, bagpipe, mandolin and vocals. The festival will also feature Blain Stevens and Cyris Kymbral, both vocalists and instrumentalists.
 
Weekend activities at Timberline also include mountain biking (bike rental, sales and repair), scenic lift rides ($5) to the 4,263 foot summit of Herz Mountain, horse back trail rides, Friday shrimp special, Saturday rib special, mountain breakfast (10 am – 1 pm), and late night live weekend entertainment at Timber’s Pub.
 
There is no charge for any summer themed musical events at Timberline. Future events this summer will include Gospel Music Day, Country and Mountain Music Weekend, Frontier Weekend and Pedal and Motor Bike Races. For more information please call (304) 866-4801 or (304) 866-6318 or visit our website at www.timberlineresort.com.