june
10jun7:00 pm10:30 pmBlues and BBQ Supper Club and Dance

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Blues & BBQ - Supper Club and Dance - Friday, June 10 Tickets HERE! Back in the day, supper clubs were considered a “destination” and people would dress in their best
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Blues & BBQ – Supper Club and Dance – Friday, June 10
Back in the day, supper clubs were considered a “destination” and people would dress in their best attire, hit the town, and head to the ballrooms with the intention of spending their whole evening from cocktail hour to after-dinner entertainment, night club style. The club featured a casual and relaxed atmosphere and the patrons knew a live orchestra would play their favorite tunes. Everyone would be dancing. Let’s bring back the tradition!
There will be a brief dance lesson before the band begins. And for optimum fun, lessons are provided weekly at Mount Sequoyah. Email elayne@elaynesdance.com for details.
Dinner will be provided by Girls Gone BBQ; menu details to follow. Feel free to bring your own refreshment of choice.
$60 per person for both dinner and dancing in our recently renovated Dining Hall. The theme will be “Blues and BBQ”. Dinner at 7pm (as usual) and live music starting after the dance lesson. Blues is the dance and then the band “Brick Fields” will play Blues music for our dancing pleasure!
The deadline to register is June 8 (or until the event is full!). Sorry, no drop-ins. We must know in advance in order to provide enough food and space for everyone.
Proof of vaccination will not be required at this time, and masks are optional. As always, this is subject to change as the COVID situation is constantly changing, and we thank you for your understanding. Please be mindful and respect others’ desire to keep their distance.
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(Friday) 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Location
Dining
150 N Skyline Drive
25jun1:00 pm3:00 pmRibbon Cutting and Celebration

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You’re Invited! Come join us in celebrating the installation of three new outdoor pieces of art at Mount Sequoyah. Saturday June 25th at 1pm we will hold a ribbon
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(Saturday) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
28jun8:00 pm10:00 pmDamien Jurado

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Damien Jurado w/ Chris Pureka
On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Damien Jurado gathers up ten stories of people determined not to be broken by their dire circumstances. “The world is a liar, the stars are a must,” he sings over brushed drums, a circling bassline, and acoustic guitar on “Helena,” which opens his 17th album, the first release from Damien’s own Maraqopa Records. Dire circumstances have long been fixtures of Jurado’s songs, which are filled with ghosts, killers, cruel lovers, and the occasional UFO cult or false messiah. But here, the scenes are earthy, drawn from ordinary but no less immense calamities: hurricanes moving toward town, strained connections, amnesiacs in the front yard. On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, Jurado pulls the curtains shut, blocking out “the light now embarrassed and afraid of the dark,” as he sings on “Tom,” one of the album’s haunting numbers, only to throw them open the exact moment sunshine needs to come flooding in.
Jurado has certainly made sparser records than The Monster, but sonically it is among his most exposed, stripping away the cosmic gloss that defined his trio of albums with the late Richard Swift in favor of dry, homespun ambiance. “In a lot of ways, it’s a continuation of the work I did with Swift,” Jurado says. Had the producer not passed away in 2018—he’s been memorialized in a number of Damien’s recent songs—it’s likely the duo would have found themselves drawn in this direction too, Damien suspects, noting that the addition by subtraction approach imbued the new album with a certain quality of “emptiness,” creating the feel of a sort of spiritual karaoke track, tailor made for personal projection. “I wanted to leave space for the listener,” Jurado says.
Known for working fast—he’s usually got a handful of finished albums at the ready at any given time—the compositions here are uncluttered, but not slight, decorated by Beatles-esque bass-lines, drums, and strings. Inspired by the sound of records like Lou Reed’s The Bells and Paul McCartney’s Ram, Jurado produced the new album himself, employing “a certain dryness,” which allowed the songs to feel cavernous, even “after spending so long in reverb land,” Jurado laughs.
Jurado’s discography is full of detours—from answering machine collages to full-on electric rock band outings—but there’s a through line connecting it all, evidence of an almost oracular or prophetic unease that lurks in Jurado’s headspace. Listening to The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, you can still hear that young man living within these songs, speaking as if from the other side, about the circumstances that crush people or leave them vexed. “The loneliest place I’ve ever been is in your arms,” he sings on the ghostly, Jason Molina-evoking “Male Customer #1”; “I hadn’t been in a car yet/Hearing the world through your eyes,” he sings on the quixotic “Jennifer.”
On the album’s most harrowing and gripping song “Johnny Caravella,” he dreams up an epic of American strangeness in the vein of Springsteen’s “State Trooper” or Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop.” His voice cracking over a distorted maw of guitars, Jurado narrates a frantic drive west, tuned into the sound of prophecy coming over the radio: “All is not lost/Even if you’re without a direction.” “Just stick around till the light pushes into the darkness,” Damien promises – or admits – at the burned-out husk of the song’s conclusion. Jurado’s best songs have long concerned inevitabilities. On The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, he offers up his own Twilight Zone, “a middle ground between light and shadow”…a dimension of imagination, of half-remembered dreams and people reaching out to cross into that liminal space between heartbreak and wholeness. Jurado knows the territory well. He knows the secret words to whisper at the right time. Press your eye to the speaker, tune your ear to the horizon.
Time
(Tuesday) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
Millar Lodge
29jun5:00 pm7:00 pmFriends of Mount Sequoyah Happy Hour - June 29

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We want to see YOU on the mountain on June 29 (optional RSVP HERE). You don't need to be a donor or know much about Mount Sequoyah - we
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We want to see YOU on the mountain on June 29 (optional RSVP HERE). You don’t need to be a donor or know much about Mount Sequoyah – we want you to come learn more about what we are and what we are doing in the Northwest Arkansas community. You don’t have to have a reservation to come; this just helps us have an idea of how many to plan for. There will be a short presentation sharing an update about what is happening at Mount Sequoyah, and we will have some buildings open for tours!
There will be light snacks and drinks available at no charge as well, so please invite friends and come enjoy the mountain.
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(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
july
18jul(jul 18)5:00 pm30(jul 30)5:00 pmChamber Music on the Mountain

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Chamber Music on the Mountain is BACK! Tickets are now available. We are thrilled to be hosting a second year of Chamber Music on the Mountain this summer. This year's
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Chamber Music on the Mountain is BACK! Tickets are now available.
We are thrilled to be hosting a second year of Chamber Music on the Mountain this summer. This year’s theme “Music that Moves Us’ will bring creative collaborations with Jazz musicians and ballet dancers. We will also be enjoying dinners with two of our concerts. You may choose a pass for all events (a fantastic value!) or purchase for each individual concert under ticket type.
Wed 7/20 Fayetteville Public Library 6:00pm (collaboration with NWA Jazz Society) FREE EVENT
Ticketed concert admission: 0ne adult ticket $20, includes one free child (18 yrs old and younger) admission, individual ticket type add on of $10 for additional child
Thursday 7/21 Thaden Performing Arts Center 6:30pm “Grooves, Classical and Jazz Intermixed”
Friday 7/22 Mount Sequoyah Dining Hall 7:00pm, “Friday Night on the Mountain! Food and Fun”
Sat 7/23 Chamber Music at Mount Sequoyah Millar Lodge 7:00pm
Thursday 7/28 Arkansas Arts Academy 6:30pm “Heart Touching Music & Ballet” w/Ozark Ballet Theater
Fri 7/29 Smokehouse Personal Pizza and Concert “Friday Night on the Mountain”
Sat 7/30 Chamber Music at Mount Sequoyah Millar Lodge 7:00pm
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18 (Monday) 5:00 pm - 30 (Saturday) 5:00 pm