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BLACK GOLD FESTIVAL 2015
Come See How We Play
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Come See How We Play
Editor’s note: The
information below was
taken from the Black
Gold Festival Committee’s
Website, www.BlackGoldFestival.com and was
current as of September
8.
The festival will be
filled with events around
hunting, fishing, camping, ATV riding and any
other outdoor wildlife
adventure. This idea was
born in October 2014
when Fish and Wildlife
joined with us to bring
you the greatest festival
ever. To help celebrate the
theme, Tim Farmer, host
and executive producer
of Ky Afield, will be our
Twitter Contest
Editor’s note: The information below was taken
from the Black Gold Festival Committee’s Website,
www.BlackGoldFestival.
com and was current as
of September 8.
The 2015 Black Gold
$500 Twitter Scavenger
Hunt will be held all 3
days of Black Gold. The
Scavenger Hunt will have
a list of photos that can be
taken at the Black Gold
Festival. Each photo will
be worth one point with
some items on the list
being able to have multi-
ple photos count. (Example: a photo of as many
musical performers as you
can take. In that case each
different performance will
count for one point.) The
list will be made available
on Facebook, Twitter, and
Parade Marshall and will
be on hand for an meet
and greet.
in paper form at the Black
Gold Committee booths at
the opening of the festival
on Thursday. Each photo
must be tagged with the
number of the item on
the list and the official
scavenger hunt hashtag
that will be given out on
the list. Participants must
have a twitter account as
only the photos posted
to twitter with the correct format will count.
The person with the most
points at the end of the
day on Saturday will win
$500.
Parking for Black Gold
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Editor’s note: The information below was taken from the Black Gold Festival Committee’s Website, www.BlackGoldFestival.com and was current as of September 8.
The City of Hazard trolleys will run from Main St., East Main, Lothair, and Walkertown. Just flag them down to catch a ride!
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Fun Land
Magician returns for
this yearʼs festival
Editor’s note: This information was
pulled directly from the Black Gold Festival Committee’s website, www.BlackGoldFestival.com and is current as of September 8.
Every kid’s favorite part of the Black
Gold Festival is Fun Land! There will be
inflatable’s in the lot across from the picnic
shelter downtown including the obstacle
course, mega slide, rock climbing wall, and
bounce house.
Located at the other end of Main St. at
Triangle Park near the old McDonald’s will
be the zip line and water ball attraction
where you become a human hamster! And
check out the magician too while on that
end of town!
Then of course the Kiwanis Karnival will
be operating in the lot next to the Health
Dept. on Memorial Drive. Although the
festival ends on Saturday night 9/20/14,
the carnival is OPEN on Sunday 9/21/14.
Editor’s note: The information
below was taken from the Black
Gold Festival Committee’s Website, www.BlackGoldFestival.com
and was current as of September
8.
Magician Mark Comley will
return in 2015 and we are very
excited about his upcoming family and children oriented shows!
He will be set up in the parking
lot between Hazard Insurance
and Home Lumber bridge and
will perform shows at various
times throughout each day of the
festival. You can visit his website
www.markcomleymagic.com to
see pictures or more detailed
info.
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2015 Main Stage
Music Schedule
Editor’s note: The 2015 main stage music
schedule was taken from The Black Gold
Committee’s Website, www.blackgoldfestival.
com and is current as of September 9.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
11:00.........................Hazard Lions Club Montessori
12:00.....................................................HHS Chorus
1:00............................................... HHS Drama Club
5:00............................................. Small Town Praise
6:00............................................ King of Pop Tribute
8:00................................................................... Exile
Friday, September 18, 2015
3:00....................................................Austin Combs
4:00.................................................. Jeremy Farmer
5:00...................................................Timothy Baker
6:00.......................................................... Taylor Dye
7:00.......................................................... Tyra Short
8:00.........................................................Little Texas
Saturday, September 19, 2015
1:00............................................................... Hwy 15
3:00..............................................Righteous Revival
4:00...................................................... Kevin Wilson
.............. Frontline Drama in front of Justice Center
5:00......................................................... Clint Ayres
5:30................................... Maple St. Church of God
in front of Justice Center
7:00......................................................Midlife Crisis
8:00.................................................... Molly Hatchet
2015 Craft Tent Stage
Music Schedule
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:00..... Jonathan Piercy and his Four String Fiasco
7:00..................................................... Cody Morgan
Friday, September 18, 2015
3:00................................................... Hassell Bryant
5:00................................................Lindsey Branson
6:00................................................... Kendal Keaton
7:00................................................. Both Sides Now
Saturday, September 19, 2015
3:00................................................... Hassell Bryant
4:00................................................Lindsey Branson
6:00................................................... Kendal Keaton
7:00.................................................... Sunrise Ridge
Molly Hatchet to perform
Editor’s note: The information
below was taken from the Black
Gold Festival Committee’s Website,
www.BlackGoldFestival.com and
was current as of September 8.
Jacksonville’s Molly Hatchet
meld loud hard rock boogie with
guitar jam-oriented Southern rock.
Formed in 1975, the group’s original lineup featured three guitarists
— Dave Hlubek, Steve Holland,
and Duane Roland — plus vocalist
Danny Joe Brown, bassist Banner Thomas, and drummer Bruce
Crump. They recorded a self-titled
debut album in 1978, which quickly
went platinum; the follow-up, Flirtin’ with Disaster, was even more
successful, selling over two million
copies. Brown left the group in 1980
after the constant touring became
too tiresome; he was replaced by
Jimmy Farrar for Beatin’ the Odds,
but Farrar’s voice was less immediately identifiable, and Molly Hatchet’s commercial appeal began a slow
decline. The band experimented
with horns on Take No Prisoners,
but Farrar left for a solo career
soon afterwards. Brown rejoined
the band in 1982, but the ensuing
album, No Guts…No Glory, flopped,
and guitarist Hlubek insisted on
revamping Molly Hatchet’s sound.
After The Deed Is Done, a straightforward pop/rock album, the group
took some time off in 1985 while
its Double Trouble Live album, a
collection of some of its best-known
songs, was released. Molly Hatchet
returned in 1989 without Hlubek
for an album of straight, polished
AOR, Lightning Strikes Twice. Not
even the group’s fan base bought
the record, and Molly Hatchet
disbanded shortly afterward. They
reunited in the mid-’90s as an active
touring outfit, releasing Devil’s
Canyon, their first record since
Lightning Strikes Twice, in 1996.
Continuing to recapture the style
of their glory days, Silent Reign of
Heroes followed in 1998, and Kingdom of XII appeared in early 2001.
A slew of live recordings appeared
during the next few years, and the
band’s studio follow-up, Warriors of
the Rainbow Bridge, was released
in 2005. Their 13th album, Justice,
appeared in 2010.
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Little Texas to hold free concert
Editor’s note: The
information below was
taken from the Black
Gold Festival Committee’s
Website, www.BlackGoldFestival.com and was
current as of September
8.
On Friday, September
18, the band Little Texas
will hold a free concert
at the Hazard City Hall
Amphitheater at 8 p.m.
As part of the Young
Country movement of
the early ‘90s, Little
Texas were responsible
for shaking up the country music world with a
new, energetic sound
that fused the look and
attitude of modern rock
music with traditional
country themes and
styles, bringing a much
appreciated bolt of life
into the genre. For their
efforts, country fans
the world over richly
rewarded the band, buying up over 7 million of
their albums, while critics showered them with
3 Grammy nominations
plus honors from both
the Academy of Country
Music (Vocal Group Of
The Year) and the Country Music Association
(Album Of The Year).
Their first radio release
in 1991, “Some Guys
Have All The Love,”
became a Top-10 hit,
as did their next single,
“First Time For Everything.” After the album
First Time For Everything was released, five
singles reached the top
of the charts. The second
album, Big Time, truly
was the big time for
Little Texas.
The sophomore release,
which has sold more
than three million copies
to date, spawned three
No. 1 singles -“What
Might Have Been,” “God
Blessed Texas” and “My
Love” – and captured
the group’s first CMT
Award, a Billboard award,
a Radio & Records award
and their first Grammy
nomination.
Early in their career,
Little Texas was designated as an arena act.
They first signed on as an
opener on an arena tour
headlined by Clint Black.
Later, they traveled with
Travis Tritt and Trisha
Yearwood on a tour sponsored by Budweiser. After
that, they were on their
own, with Crown Royal,
singing to packed arenas
across the United States
and Canada. During this
time, the band played a
part in Common Thread:
The Songs of The Eagles,
which later earned their
first Country Music Association trophy for “Album
Of The Year.”
The group’s cover of
“Peaceful Easy Feeling”
charted well; albeit, without an official release,
and with that, Little
Texas broke another
record in country music
history: three different
songs on three different charts with three
different lead singers,
all at the same time. It
is a feat that has never
been repeated since by
any band. The year 1994
also brought the lineup
an Academy of Country
Music Award for “Vocal
Group of the Year.”
Little Texas released
their Kick A Little album,
and their first true arenaheadlining tour began,
supported by Keebler and
newcomer Tim McGraw
with opening act BlackHawk. The tour and the
album were huge successes, highlighted by shows
in Detroit and Minneapolis, where they sold
out the arenas just days
after their heroes, The
Eagles, had played the
same venues. The tour
continued on through
1995, finishing as the
fifth largest-grossing tour
of the year, and over the
course of ’94 and ’95,
the band received two
more Grammy nominations and released Little
Texas–Greatest Hits.
After the self-titled
Little Texas album was
released, Little Texas,
the players, needed a
break following years
of performing a relentless concert schedule.
Thus, at the end of 1997,
each member went his
separate way, opting to
spend time with family
and friends, and work on
individual projects.
Says bassist-vocalist
Duane Propes: “At that
point it was time for our
loved ones to have us
back for a while. It all
happened for a reason.”
In 2004, the multi-platinum band’s four original members—Propes,
Porter Howell (lead
vocals and lead guitar),
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Dwayne O’Brien (vocals and rhythm
guitars) and Del Gray (drums) rebuilt
the franchise with a completely new
sound and they couldn’t have been
happier to be back on tour and bringing fans what they do best.
“Everybody still has a ‘What Might
Have Been,’ there’s always a ‘First
Time For Everything,’ and folks
still want to ‘Kick A Little,’ so we
decided to take the party back on the
road,” shares Propes, referring to the
group’s continued rotation at radio
and generations of both old and new
fans that keep the band playing their
classics and putting out new music.
In summer 2007, Little Texas
returned to the airwaves, country
charts and music video playlists with
an album titled Missing Years. In
typical Little Texas style, the band
broke the rules yet again, choosing to
unleash TWO new albums within the
span of a month, including the band’s
first live album, The Very Best of
Little Texas: Live & Loud.
Currently, the lineup’s on the concert circuit celebrating its official
24th year on the radio since their
first single, “Some Guys Have All The
Love,” hit the airwaves in 1991. The
music the band has generated over
the years is timeless, and has been
featured on hundreds of television
programs and sporting events including Good Morning America, American Idol, Don’t Forget The Words,
America’s Got Talent & HBO’s “True
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Blood,” while “God Blessed Texas”
has been the theme music for the
Texas Ford Dealers commercials
since 1998.
This year, Little Texas is breaking
new sonic ground with the release of
their 8th album, Young For A Long
Time. Undoubtedly the band has
never sounded more confident, as
the chorus of the titular lead off track
proudly declares, “Don’t you know
by now we’ve got this down / That
Friday night fire still hasn’t gone out
/ We got a rock solid life and a rock
n’ roll state of mind / We were born
to run / So sit down, son / We’ll show
you just how it’s done / ‘Cause we’ve
been young for a long time.” The
musicianship has only improved with
age as well with Porter Howell truly
coming into his own as the band’s
lead vocalist in addition to his dazzling lead guitar work, and backed
by the always solid playing of drummer Del Gray. “Young For A Long
Time pretty much runs the gamut
of everything we’ve ever done, plus
takes us down some new roads as
well,” Propes continues, “the vocals
are there, the guitar work is there,
the party songs are there, the ‘make
you cry’ love songs, the songs about
Texas. We even dive off into swamp
rock and torch music, so each song
has a totally different fuel behind it.”
“The four of us appreciate each
other and still have a ball on stage,”
says drummer Gray of the band’s
chemistry on stage after all this time.
“There is a comfort level that happens to us when we play together that
can only happen with 20-something
years of experience.”
Editor’s note: This year’s schedule of
events was taken from the Black Gold
Festival Committee’s website, www.
BlackGoldFestival.com and was current
as of September 2.
September 17-19
Kiwanis Karnival – 9:00 a.m. until
11:00 p.m.
– located next to Health Department
in parking lot on Memorial Drive.
(The Carnival will be OPEN on Sunday, September 20, 2015)
Craft Tents – 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m.
– located next to Triangle Park
– The craft tent will also include commercial vendors this year.
If you make a large purchase at the
craft tent you will be given a temporary
parking pass to pick up your items.
Black Gold Novelty Tent – 9:00 a.m.
until 9:00 p.m.
– located in the picnic shelter at City
Hall
Stop by and purchase your 2015 Black
Gold Festival t-shirts, Case knives, hats,
and many other items.
Fun Land – 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m
– located across from the picnic shelter
at City Hall
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Come have some fun climbing the
wall, bungee jumping, or one of our
many other attractions.
Dance Party – 8:00 p.m. until 10:00
p.m.
– located in front of the Court House
Come join our dance party hosted by
local D.J. Michael Dwayne from WKIC
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September 19
Black Diamond Street Rod Car
Show – Registration 8:00 a.m. until
11:00 a.m.
– Main Street Parking Structure
(Entry Fee $15.00 per car * admission
$3.00 per person)
For more information contact Hal
Dixon at (606)436-4820.
Trophies sponsored by Dixon’s Auto
Body Shop.
2015 Black Gold Parade – 11:00 a.m.
Lineup for the parade will be on East
Main St. The parade will start on East
Main St., continue on to Memorial Drive
and will end on Main St. All parade
entries need to bring their application
and $15 fee to pick up their number
on Saturday starting at 9:00 a.m. at the
Food Fair parking lot.
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Parade set
for Saturday
Editor’s note: The parade route
has been changed due to the Old
Grand Hotel fire. This information
was taken directly from the Black
Gold Committee’s Website, www.
blackgoldfestival.com and is current
as of September 9.
The 2015 Black Gold Festival
Parade will be held on Saturday,
September 19 at 11:00 A.M. Parade
line-up will begin promptly at 9:00
A.M. at the old Food Fair parking
lot on East Main Street. A $15
entry fee is mandatory and must be
paid on the day of the parade at the
lineup. Parade applications should
also be brought to the parade
lineup.
The parade route for 2015 HAS
changed. It will start at Pizza Hut
on East Main Street, continue on
to Memorial Drive, and then go
down North Main Street and end at
Combs Motel. It will not go down
Main Street.
By order of the Hazard City
Police Department, no unlicensed
or unauthorized vehicles will be
permitted in the parade. This
includes motorcycles, four-wheelers,
dune buggies, mini-motor bikes,
and go-carts. This is for the safety
of the public along the parade route.
They are allowing side by side
ATVs this year during the parade
only.
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The Perry County
Fiscal Court
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Be PeRRY PRoud Come out
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Gold FeSTIVal!
COAL STILL KEEPS OUR LIGHTS ON
Flood Clean-uP
September 1st through September 23rd
Perry County Garage 8a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday
You may bring any solid waste that was direct result of the July flood.
This also includes household items. We will accept anything as
long it has been damaged by flooding.
We will not accept driftwood, limbs, brush or construction debris.
If you have any further questions contact us at
(606) 439-0149 or the County Garage at (606) 439-4465.
Thank you for helping us keep our county clean!
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