4 Popular Entertainers Headline Harrah’s Cherokee Casino This Fall Season! They’ve got Tony Bennett with special guest Antonia Bennett, Ron White, Penn & Teller and Gregg Allman!
If you’ve not made a trip over to Cherokee, North Carolina to the exquisite Harrah’s Casino Resort, then treat yourself to an upcoming live concert and experience a venue like no other on the North Carolina side of the Smokies! It’s a beautifully designed resort with more upscale amenities than you can imagine for ensuring a divine adult-only weekend getaway! You have to be at least 21 years old to enjoy all the fun at Harrah’s.
Cherokee Casino Resort Fall 2015 / Winter 2016 Concert Schedule
Tony Bennett with Special Guest Antonia Bennett Friday, October 23, 2015 9:00 p.m. Tickets $45 – $80
Best known for his traditional pop standards, show tunes, and jazz, Bennett’s daughter Antonia has inherited her father’s musical talents. They perform together for an evening of great music.
Ron White Friday, November 6, 2015 9:00 p.m. Tickets $40 – $90
Some call him Tater Salad but most folks know this hilarious entertainer as Ron White who always added a bit of upper-crust panache to the Blue-Collar Comedy Tour.
Penn & Teller Friday, December 11, 2015 9:00 p.m. Tickets $24.50 – $44.50
You’ve been watching them weekly on television this summer and now the edgy, comedic dynamic duo will perform live at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino for the very first time and delight audiences with their wonders of illusion!
These top 12 Christmas Holiday Shows in the Smoky Mountains will get you into the spirit of the season! No place else in the mountains celebrates the Christmas holidays the way Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and Sevierville do and we’ve got their Top 12 Christmas Shows just for you!
A Christmas holiday in the beautiful Smoky Mountains filled with live music and dance creates fun family memories to last a lifetime. So while you’re visiting the Great Smoky Mountains this holiday season, do yourself a favor and take in a show or two…or five!
A Comedy Barn Christmas, Pigeon Forge
It’a a holiday filled with laughter as only the Comedy Barn can deliver this season. They’ve traded in the overalls, well some of them, for some really funny Christmas costumes and they’ll be singing and clogging and laughing all the way through to the new year! And don’t forget those darling Comedy Barn Canines that are sure to warm your heart this Christmas!
Biblical Times Dinner Theater,Pigeon Forge
This holiday season Biblical Times Dinner Theater recreates “The Christmas Story” through the prophetic eyes of Simeon during the second half of their dinner show featuring traditional Christmas music, Southern gospel, and contemporary Christian music.
Christmas at Dixie,Pigeon Forge
The Christmas show at Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede has been upgraded with $2.5 million renovations in lighting and state-of-the-art video special effects that will wow fans of all ages. As usual, guests will enjoy Dixie’s 4-course meal and 32 majestic horses; however during the special holiday show the arena will be transformed into a live Navitity scene, and a lively parade of toys are brought to life by the Sugar Plum Fairy herself.
Christmas at The Smoky Mountain Opry, Pigeon Forge
With an even bigger and better show than before, Christmas at The Smoky Mountain Opry features award-winning aerialists, ice skaters, and live animals including donkey, camels and a rare white lion. In this year’s production, they are all helping Santa Elves work overtime to get ready for the big holiday. With laser light effects and special winter’s snowfall, this is one show that’s sure to become a Christmas favorite.
Christmas in the Smokies Bluegrass Festival,Pigeon Forge
This year’s annual Christmas in the Smokies Bluegrass Festival will be held December 9-12, 2015 at the Ramada Inn & Smoky Mountain Convention Center. With almost two dozen bluegrass musical acts and workshops, you’ll see why this festival has had folks toe tapping and hand clapping, and coming back year after year for some of the region’s finest bluegrass music.
Ring in the New Year 2016 with family and friends in the Great Smoky Mountains at one of these five fabulous celebrations!
Cherokee Lights & Legends and Annual Cherokee New Years Eve Fireworks Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds, Cherokee, North Carolina
Gates open at 5:00 p.m. to Cherokee Lights & Legends where interactive displays tell ancient Cherokee Christmas legends. There’s an ice skating rink and other fun activities for the entire family. Live entertainment begins at 9:00 p.m. and the big fireworks spectacular is at 10:00 p.m. For more information visit, Cherokee Lights & Legends or call 800-438-1601.
3rd Annual New Year’s Eve Celebration The Island in Pigeon Forge
Free festivities begin at 8:00 p.m. until the countdown to midnight and a fireworks show. Enjoy a free concert by The Fairview Union! For more info, visit islandinpigeonforge.com or call 865-286-0119.
New Years Eve Masquerade Ball Three Jimmy’s, Gatlinburg
$1,500 in cash prizes for the best dressed guests! Tickets are $100 per couple ($50 single) and include a prime rib and salmon dinner with champagne toast at midnight. $20 cover charge for entertainment Blair Xperience at 8:00 p.m. For reservations and info, call 865-325-1210 or visit Three Jimmy’s.
Rockin’ New Years Eve with The Kincaid Band Hard Rock Cafe, Pigeon Forge
Bring the kids and enjoy a great meal before The Kincaid Band kicks things off at 9:00 p.m. on New Year’s Eve! For more info, call 865-430-7625 or visit Hard Rock Cafe.
New Year’s Eve Fireworks Show & Ball Drop Downtown Gatlinburg
This is the 28th year for the city’s midnight fireworks extravaganza. It shoots off from roof of the 400-ft. tall Space Needle to specially choreographed music. The Space Needle is located near the intersection of The Parkway and Historic Nature Trail at traffic light #8. For more information, call the Gatlinburg CVB at 800-588-1817.
Bears in the Smoky Mountains are active while getting ready for hibernation this year. Sightings and encounters with people have been on the rise this autumn since many bears are traveling as much as 10-15 miles outside their normal foraging range within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in search of food. Visitors and residents alike should take extra measures to secure trash in your automobiles, homes and businesses.
National Park Rangers report the increased bear activity is due to an unusually low amount of forest foods available this year. White Oak acorns, Red Oak acorns and other nuts, known as the mast crop, have provided an extremely low yield. There has also been a lack of carbohydrate-rich wild cherries available for the bears this year.
For those planning a hike, the National Park reports increased bear activity on the following trails this fall:
Laurel Falls Trail – Little River Road
Little River Trail – Elkmont
Grotto Falls Trail – Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail
Ramsey Cascades Trail – Greenbrier
Mt. LeConte Lodge Area
For those planning to backpack, the National Park reports increased bear activity at the following backcountry sites this fall:
Cosby Knob Shelter
Mt. LeConte Shelter
Russell Field Shelter
Backcountry Campsites 13, 21, 24, 38, 41, 95
Backcountry Campsite 113 is currently closed
For up-to-date backcountry trail and campsite information, call the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 865-436-1297.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources strongly encourages visitors and residents in the Smoky Mountains to use the following tips to keep both bears and humans happily coexisting:
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park hosts two old-fashioned holiday events in December! The Festival of Christmas Past will be held Saturday, December 12, 2015 at Sugarlands Visitor Center near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The Holiday Homecoming will be held Saturday, December 19, 2015 at Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee, North Carolina.
Festival of Christmas Past @ Sugarlands Visitor Center Saturday, December 12, 2015 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
There’s nothing like an old-fashioned Smoky Mountain Christmas celebration with traditional harp singing and holidays stories from long ago. In addition to live mountain music, your family will enjoy fun games and activities like apple cider pressing and make-your-own Christmas ornaments and wreaths. There will also be craft demonstrations of quilting, basket making, weaving and spinning. Don’t miss one of the short guided walks in the forest!
