Grammy Award winner, David Holt, will appear in concert on the HART stage, Saturday, February 6, 2016.

UPDATE: Due to illness David Holt’s concert has been canceled. The event will be rescheduled for a later date. Anyone holding tickets should contact the HART Box Office at 828-456-6322.

Holt plays ten acoustic instruments and has released recordings of traditional mountain music and Southern folktales. Currently, he is hosting the PBS series David Holt’s State of Music, featuring some of the regions finest musicians including Rhiannon Giddens, Steep Canyon Rangers and Balsam Range.

He is host of public television’s Folkways, a North Carolina program that takes the viewer through the Southern Mountains visiting traditional craftsmen and musicians.

An evening with David Holt offers tales, ballads and tunes told, sung and played on the banjo, slide guitar, guitar, harmonica, bones, spoons and jaw harp. His audiences are constantly involved, learning to play the paper bag, applauding the vitality of his clog dancing, listening to the haunting sound of a 122 year old mountain banjo, or being spellbound by a ghost story.

If You Go: David Holt in concert, Saturday February 6 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25; proceeds go to support the theater’s building fund. Call (828) 456-6322 and leave a message to reserve tickets, or purchase online at www.harttheatre.org. Haywood Arts Regional Theatre, 250 Pigeon St. in Waynesville.