'Smoke on the Mountain' takes place in 1938 at the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina. The play presents a Saturday Night Gospel Sing featuring the Sanders' Family in their first night back from the gospel circuit after a curious five year hiatus. The audience plays the part of a skeptical but eager congregation. Pastor Oglethorpe, the enthusiastic minister, has enlisted the Sanders Family Singers in his efforts to bring his congregation into the "modern world." An amiable friction, combined with a worrisome pair of spinsters who happen to be the church's chief tithers, keeps the gathering on the verge of hilarity and redemption. Between songs, the Sanders family shares its witness, as only they know how, with the congregation. But it is their music that carries the message and helps "the medicine go down." The Saturday Night Sing features 27 wonderfully arranged bluegrass gospel favorites, a number of which will be familiar to the audience.

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