Barbershop Extravaganza At Jones House Friday By Jeff Eason If you love the smooth sounds of four-part vocal harmony (and who doesn’t?), be sure to reserve your spot on the lawn on the front yard of the Jones House Community Center this Friday. A barbershop quartet extravaganza featuring three separate vocal acts will perform as part of the weekly Concerts on the Lawn Series, presented by the Watauga County Arts Council. Boone’s own Mountainaires Barbershop Quartet will be part of a three-group concert at the Jones House this Friday. Photo submitted. This free concert starts on Friday, August 26th at 5:30 p.m. and features The Mountainaires Barbershop Quartet, 4th Edition and Party of Four. The Mountainaires Barbershop Quartet features singers Roland Moy, Charles Isley, Dick Rupp and Dan Stillwell. The group has been performing all over the country for over 20 years. 4th Edition features Roland Moy, Rick Klima, Bill Barr and Brent Bingham. The relatively new group has been creating unique four-part harmony for the past nine months. Party of Four, an all-female singing group from the High Country, is made up of lead singer Cherry Johnson, Summer Sheffield on tenor vocals, Suzanne Wise on bass vocals, Debra Cassella on baritone vocals. Johnson is well known around the Jones House area as the executive director of the Watauga County Arts Council. Sheffield works for the Watauga Humane Society. Wise is a librarian at Appalachian State. And Cassella works for the Park Service. “Roland (Moy) got us together several months ago and we’ve only been practicing more or less regularly since then,” said Johnson. “We have only performed one other time, at the Watauga Community Band concert in Blowing Rock at Christmas and all day long at the Boone Christmas Parade that same day.” Music lovers are invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets to the front lawn of the Jones House Community Center in Boone for this show. Sponsors for the 2005 Concert on the Lawn Series are Earth Fare, High Country Bank, and the Downtown Boone Development Association. For more information, call the Watauga County Arts Council at (828) 264-1789.