Arts & Entertainment

"Roosevelt Dime" Concert at the Gate House Cafe on August 4

The free concert begins at 6:30 p.m.

The Gatehouse Café concert will feature “Roosevelt Dime” on August 4, 2015 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm.

We all carry the Roosevelt Dime. It’s not a relic of the past, it’s the silver in your pocket. There was a time when Appalachian strings made romance with New Orleans rhythms, a love affair that yielded one of the most infectious beats the world had ever heard. For Roosevelt Dime that time is now. Some would call it Rock & Roll, others Americana, but “Mardi-Grass” is more like it—a bedrock of New Orleans rhythms that brings driving, melodic banjo, fat-back blues guitar, pure honky-tonk harmonies, and deliciously dirty R&B

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