Live! At the Ozark Opry

By Dan William Peek and Joyce Mace

In the Ozarks, music frames everything. The Ozark Opry was a focal point of that cultural tradition for over fifty years, playing to sold-out audiences and influencing the course of the American entertainment industry in vital ways hitherto untold. This behind-the-scenes story of Lee and Joyce Mace's incredible venture by historian and former Opry performer Dan William Peek reawakens the foot tapping and fiddle scraping still clinging to the shores of the Lake of the Ozarks. This story also spotlights some of the most fascinating characters of the times, the Nashville stars, Chuck Foster, the Mabe Brothers, Albert Gannaway, Seymour Weiss, Scott O. Wright, Sarah Gertrude Knott and Cyrus Crane Willmore.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The History Press
• Release date: Dec 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781614231172

Dan William Peek

Kent Van Landuyt, a lifelong resident of the Ozarks, has over forty years in public service as a sociologist and planner with the state of Missouri. Dan William Peek, an Ozark native, is a marketing consultant, banjo player and author of Live! At the Ozark Opry and To the Point: The Story of Darts in America.

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