Gatlinburg TN
The Front Porch restaurant serves Mexican food and is open on Friday and Saturday nights. They don’t serve alcohol, but you’re allowed to bring your own beer. Sometimes the waitresses sit down at your table to take your order. Sometimes, one of the kids will take your order. If it’s busy, you’re encouraged to refill your own beverages. Usually, there are lots of kids running around. While everyone is expected to have a good time, drunkenness, rowdiness, and swearing are not tolerated – it is truly a family establishment. There is live bluegrass music both nights. The restaurant is also open on the first Sunday evening of the month. The Sundays are special – acoustic music only and an open mike. (http://dininginthesmokies.com/_cosby/aafropor.htm)
We go to the Front Porch nearly every week. The food is very good and so is the music. It’s one of the few places we’ve found where the music is not overly produced.
Tonight we went to the Front Porch for an evening of old time acoustic music. The regular Sunday musicians were there. There was a woman in her sixties who played the bass fiddle. A woman my age played the accordion on some songs and a guitar on others. A woman Kelly’s age played the mandolin. (She apologized that she wasn’t very good yet as she’d been playing only five years.) A man in his sixties played the mandolin. A woman in her thirties played piano on some songs and fiddle on others. After they finished their two sets, the fun started.
A man from the audience sat down at the piano (The piano is “tacked” – thumbtacks in the hammers to give it a honky tonk sound.) and started playing a show tune. Soon, the other musicians came back onstage and joined in. You haven’t heard anything until you’ve heard bluegrass musicians play Broadway tunes! Then, the owner requested a series of Irish tunes. They tried to pick them out, but no one really knew them. We were told that the older musician also played the corded zither. We requested a couple songs on that instrument. He was so good! When the musicians forgot some of the words to “In the Sweet Bye and Bye,” we helped them out. Everyone joined in on the last song of the evening, “Goodnight Irene.”
I just found out, from the Internet, that this restaurant is for sale. Golly, it’s tempting!
The Front Porch restaurant serves Mexican food and is open on Friday and Saturday nights. They don’t serve alcohol, but you’re allowed to bring your own beer. Sometimes the waitresses sit down at your table to take your order. Sometimes, one of the kids will take your order. If it’s busy, you’re encouraged to refill your own beverages. Usually, there are lots of kids running around. While everyone is expected to have a good time, drunkenness, rowdiness, and swearing are not tolerated – it is truly a family establishment. There is live bluegrass music both nights. The restaurant is also open on the first Sunday evening of the month. The Sundays are special – acoustic music only and an open mike. (http://dininginthesmokies.com/_cosby/aafropor.htm)
We go to the Front Porch nearly every week. The food is very good and so is the music. It’s one of the few places we’ve found where the music is not overly produced.
Tonight we went to the Front Porch for an evening of old time acoustic music. The regular Sunday musicians were there. There was a woman in her sixties who played the bass fiddle. A woman my age played the accordion on some songs and a guitar on others. A woman Kelly’s age played the mandolin. (She apologized that she wasn’t very good yet as she’d been playing only five years.) A man in his sixties played the mandolin. A woman in her thirties played piano on some songs and fiddle on others. After they finished their two sets, the fun started.
A man from the audience sat down at the piano (The piano is “tacked” – thumbtacks in the hammers to give it a honky tonk sound.) and started playing a show tune. Soon, the other musicians came back onstage and joined in. You haven’t heard anything until you’ve heard bluegrass musicians play Broadway tunes! Then, the owner requested a series of Irish tunes. They tried to pick them out, but no one really knew them. We were told that the older musician also played the corded zither. We requested a couple songs on that instrument. He was so good! When the musicians forgot some of the words to “In the Sweet Bye and Bye,” we helped them out. Everyone joined in on the last song of the evening, “Goodnight Irene.”
I just found out, from the Internet, that this restaurant is for sale. Golly, it’s tempting!
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