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Festival Honors Young Clogger. Read more
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Thursday July 31st. Friday August 1st. Saturday August 2nd. 7pm each night |
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Since 1928, mountain fiddlers, banjo pickers, dulcimer sweepers, dancers, balladeers and others have come to enjoy themselves “along about sundown” the first weekend in August at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. In 2008, performers at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will take to the stage for the 81st. time at Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place in downtown Asheville on Thursday through Saturday, July 31st. through August 2nd. at 7 p.m.
2008 Line-up Here |
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Bascom Lamar Lunsford founded the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival as a means for people to share and understand the beauty and dignity of the Southern Appalachian music and dance traditions that have been handed down through generations in western North Carolina. He saw the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival grow to be the oldest gathering of its kind in the nation and it continues in this way, a platform for the talented of the high country lying between the Great Smoky and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Since 1928, the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival has served a crucial role in raising awareness and understanding of the vitality and importance of Southern Appalachian culture throughout the region, nation and world. Bascom Lunsford’s mission was to present the finest of the Appalachian ballad singers, string bands and square dance teams for education and entertainment. The songs and dances shared at this event echo centuries of Scottish, English, Irish, Cherokee and African heritage found in the valleys and coves between the Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Lunsford’s was the first dubbed a folk festival, and he later consulted with many communities across the country interested in organizing similar festivals. Click here for more history of the Festival
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other people think about this event
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Mountain Dance and Folk Festival tickets may be purchased
through the Pack Place box office at (828) 257- 4530 or click ticket below:
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