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Summer showed up and it brought live music with it. Tonight is the second week of Twilight Alive, and the band on stage is one worth knowing about. They're from right here, and they've already played some of the biggest stages in American music.

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Carson Peters grew up in Piney Flats, Tennessee. About 20 minutes from where you're sitting right now.

He picked up a ukulele at two and a half years old. By three, his father had put a fiddle in his hands. By eight, he was on NBC's Tonight Show playing for Jay Leno and Betty White. By the time he was a teenager, Ricky Skaggs had invited him to perform at the Grand Ole Opry and later brought him to Nashville to play the CMA Awards during Skaggs' Country Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

In 2021, he auditioned for NBC's The Voice and earned a rare four-chair turn with his take on the Don Williams classic "Tulsa Time."

None of that happened in Nashville or New York. It started right here, in the hills of Northeast Tennessee, because that's where Carson Peters is from and, more importantly, that's what his music sounds like.

His band, Iron Mountain, takes its name from a mountain near his father's hometown of Elizabethton. The original bass and guitar players also happened to live near an Iron Mountain in North Carolina. Different mountain, same name. They figured that was reason enough. That's a very Northeast Tennessee way to make a decision.

The band signed with Billy Blue Records in 2023 and released their latest project, Gotta Lotta Lonesome. Their sound is traditional bluegrass and a cappella arrangements rooted in the old style, played with the kind of energy that earns you repeat invitations to the Opry.

Tonight they're playing for free on Broad Street. Bring a chair.

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A few things worth getting off your couch for:

Twilight Alive Concert Series | Tonight, June 5 | 7:00 PM | 100 Block of Broad Street, Downtown Kingsport Carson Peters and Iron Mountain close out the week on Broad Street for the second night of the 2026 Twilight Alive season. Free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Grab food from one of the vendors on site and find a good spot on the sidewalk before 7.

Kingsport Axmen vs. Burlington Sock Puppets with Fireworks | Saturday, June 6 | 7:00 PM | Ballad Health Field at Hunter Wright Stadium The Axmen are in the middle of their home opening series and Saturday night closes it out with fireworks after the game. College wood bat baseball is a genuinely great way to spend a summer evening in this city, and it doesn't cost much to get in the gate.

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