Tom Dooley: A Wilkes County Legend is back for its 24th Season

Tom Dooley: A Wilkes County Legend is back for its 24th Season!  

The show will be performed at Benton Hall, 300 D Street, North Wilkesboro, NC. in partnership with Wilkes Playmakers and Bleu Moon Productions. 

Remaining show dates are Thursday through Saturday, July 17, 18, 19 at 7:00 p.m.

and Sunday, July 20 at 3:00 p.m.  The House Band, Magnolia Fire, will perform 30 minutes prior to each performance and accompany the play.  

In celebration of this North Carolina Legend, surrounding Counties are being offered a $5 discount.  To take advantage of this special offer tickets may be purchased by going to our ticket website 

https://events.humanitix.com/tom-dooley-a-wilkes-county…

and typing in the code, LEGEND, when purchasing tickets.  Tickets may also be purchased at the door on a first come, first serve basis. 

The Dooley Legend, was made internationally famous by the Kingston Trio’s “Tom Dooley” in 1958, and later won a Grammy Award.  “Tom Dooley: A Wilkes County Legend is written and directed by Karen Reynolds.

For those not familiar with this true story, there’s a handsome war hero, his adoring girlfriend and an old flame determined to rekindle their romance, despite her own marriage. It all adds up to a love triangle that explodes in jealousy, murder and—eventually—a potentially wrongful execution. And it all goes to show that history is far from the dry, dusty textbook chapters we often assume it to be.