Burnin Daylight headlines Friday Night Block Party

This week’s Friday Night Block Party headliner for the third week of Super August is the Burnin Daylight band. Music and activities will begin at 7 Friday night on the courthouse square in downtown Mountain Home. The event is free to the public and all are welcome.

Burnin Daylight is a local band playing positive country, contemporary and gospel, and music. Burning Daylight covers artists like, Martina McBride, The Eagles, Lady Antebellum, Maddie & Tae, The Judd’s, The Isaac’s, Natalie Grant and others.Lee Anne Jackson, Cate Jackson and Susi Vangilder take turns singing lead and harmonizing. Curt Dixon plays lead guitar, as well as sings lead on several tunes. Mark Kapshandy plays rhythm guitar, Tony Chastain plays bass and Jayme Patterson is on drums.

Vangilder sings leads and harmonies and grew up singing in church with family members. She graduated from Ouachita Baptist University with a degree in music in 2002. Vangilder has been in choirs and directed numerous choral groups and traveling groups.She started playing piano for church about eight years ago. Vangilder has taught voice and piano for more than 10 years. She works for Cotter Public Schools and is active in church and the music program.

Lee Anne Jackson sings lead and harmony vocals for Burnin Daylight. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree, with an emphasis in music performance from Belmont University in Nashville. She is an active member of the Twin Lakes Playhouse and has helped direct music for several productions. She also played the lead in the production Always Patsy Cline.

Cate Jackson is the 14-year-old daughter of Craig and Lee Anne Jackson. She is a ninth grader in Mountain Home. She has been singing with her momma since she was 2-years-old.

Kapshandy plays rhythm guitar and sings harmony. Kapshandy started playing acoustic guitar when he was 15 years old and has been playing guitar in church for over 25 years in Mountain Home.

Chastain plays bass guitar and is a main staple in the Mountain Home music scene. Chastain started playing music in church with family (Chastain Family, Ozark Quartet) and has played with numerous groups including the 100 Proof Band and Crossfire.

Dixon plays lead guitar, sings lead, and does the MC work for the group. Dixon has played lead with groups from Texas to Mountain Home. He has 21 years of experience and has played in 17 different bands.

Patterson started playing drums at an early age and has played for groups from Neosho, Joplin, Branson, Ogden, Utah, and Mountain Home. Patterson toured with groups and enjoys working with different people and playing country, jazz and classic rock.

This week’s block party is sponsored by Bob and Linda Zdora on behalf of the Twin Lakes Retired Police Officers Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization with the purpose of funding scholarships for children and grandchildren of active and retired law enforcement officers.

A number of food vendors will be on hand selling their specialties, including barbecue, tacos, homemade cream soda, cupcakes, funnel cakes, kettle corn and lemonade, and the Baxter County Historical and Genealogical Society will be selling ice cream sundaes.

All attendees will have a chance to win door prizes during the band’s intermission.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their lawn chairs when they come out to enjoy what has become a summer tradition.

In case of the threat of rain, stay tuned to KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot or check the block party’s Facebook page facebook.com/mountainhome.square Mountain Home’s Friday Night Block Party for details.

For information about becoming a volunteer, sponsor or vendor booth, call Ron Shire at 870-404-6347. For more information regarding the Friday Night Block Party, visit the event’s Facebook page at facebook.com/mountainhome.square Mountain Home’s Friday Night Block Party.

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