— courtesy Granville County Chamber of Commerce | Ginnie Currin, Executive Director ~ 919-693-6125 ~ ginnie@granville-chamber.com
15th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHAMBER’S ALIVE AFTER FIVE OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES
Thursday evenings ~ 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
May 10 – Oxford Downtown Parking Lot “Gary Lowder & Smokin’ Hot Band”
August 16 – Butner Gazebo Park “The Konnection Band”
October 13 – Oxford Downtown Parking Lot “Jim Quick & the Coastline Band”
The fifteenth-anniversary celebration of the Chamber’s ALIVE AFTER FIVE series will kick off in downtown Oxford’s parking lot at Littlejohn and Gilliam Streets. GARY LOWDER & SMOKIN’ HOT Band will be performers for the evening.
This band is “known as a Soul, R & B party band,” based out of North Myrtle Beach, SC. Their musical repertoire coves decades of hits from your favorite artists and genres of music including soul, rhythm and blues, funk, reggae, jazz standards, country, 50’s, 60’s and Carolina Beach Music.
In addition to performing some of the most current hits that are topping the charts today, the group has had many successful chart-topping hits on local radio and internet stations across North and South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Florida. Garey Lowder & SMOKIN’ HOT are comprised of multi-talented musicians who have come together to produce incredible performances each and every time they take the stage.
The Carolina Beach Music Association awarded Gary Lowder & Smokin’ Hot with DC of the year in 2013 at the Alabama Theater for “Soul Therapy”. In 2014, the group was nominated for Group of the Year. In 2015, Gary Lowder & Smokin’ Hot was nominated for thirteen Carolina Beach Music Awards, with J.K. Loftin, group guitarist being honored with Engineer of the Year.