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Mountain Dance and Folk Festival
Asheville Area, NC • Near Milepost 377
Cole Mountain Cloggers perform at the Mountain Dance & Folk Festival
Dates
Thurs, Aug 5 - Sat, Aug 7, 2010
7:00 p.m. nightly
Cost
Adults: $20/night
Children 12 and under: $10/night
Three-night package for adults: $54
Contact
Folk Heritage Committee
Elly Wells
828.258.6101, x 345
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http://www.folkheritage.org
Location
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Diana Wortham Theatre
2 S. Pack Square
Asheville, NC
The 2010 Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, the country’s longest running folk festival, is in its 83rd year of highlighting mountain culture. Since 1928, mountain fiddlers, banjo pickers, dulcimer sweepers, dancers, balladeers, and many more have come together to enjoy themselves “along about sundown” during the first weekend in August. The stage comes alive with the centuries old sounds of Scottish, English, Irish, Cherokee, and African heritages that comprise the music and dance of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
Audiences at each of the three performances will see an extensive line-up of the best musicians, ballad singers, and dancers. Each evening features at least four dance teams from the very young to the young at heart. The popular and long-standing house band, the Stoney Creek Boys, returns to perform each evening of the 2010 Festival. And each night of the Festival features well-known musicians and new talent alike, representative of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and its continuing traditions.
While the Festival is the longest running folk festival in the nation, the event is historical in its own capacity: it’s not unusual to see musicians, storytellers, and dancers spanning several generations take the stage side by side, participating in cultural heritages begun contemporaneously with our country’s birth. Old-timers as well as the newest generation of bluegrass and mountain string bands, ballad singers, big circle mountain dancers, and cloggers gather to celebrate our area’s rich cultural heritage.
