Shindig Featured in the Ingles Open Road Show
Our corporate sponsor Ingles featured the Shindig on the Green in the Open Road Show episode. View the episode here.
Traditional Mountain Music and Dance in Asheville, NC
The Folk Heritage Committee is a group of dedicated individuals who work throughout the year to produce the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival and Shindig on the Green. The mission of the Folk Heritage Committee is to preserve and present the musical heritage of the Southern Appalachians to audiences who attend from throughout the region and world, for entertainment and education.
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Free!2025 will be the 59th Season of Shindig On the Green! Bring your instruments, families, friends, lawn chairs and blankets and join us for good times at the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Stage. In 2025 Shindig on the Green, which features a stage show and informal jam sessions around the park, continues at its original location […] -
If you like Shindig on the Green, you'll love the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival!
This year will be the 98th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, which was started in 1928 and is the longest continuously running festival in the nation. Every year it showcases the Southern Appalachians' best traditional mountain musicians, dancers, and storytellers.
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Winners of the 2025 Raffle
We are pleased to congratulate Veronica Raether and Peter Wilkerson for winning our 2025 Raffle. Veronica won the beautiful blue and tan quilt generously donated by Mountain Jam Circle, and Peter won the stained glass water mill scene created and donated by Bob Blackwell. Thank you for all our supporters, and congratulations Veronica and Peter!
Raffle for 2025
Sampler blocks alternate with traditional Shoo-Fly blocks, while striped sashing ties everything together in this queen-sized quilt. Blue and tan reproduction fabrics are set off by traditional muslin giving it a tailored look. Professionally quilted with chevrons and traditional feathered wreaths. This is the thirteenth quilt that local quilting collaborative Mountain Jam Circle has made and donated to Shindig on the Green. Valued at $1000.
Local stained glass artist, Bob Blackwell, has created another eye-popping piece for our 2025 raffle, and it is his fourth year in which he has made an outstanding work for us. This year’s raffle item features a water mill scene, as well as a display stand and rustic wood frame, This year’s work will create loads of interest, so buy lots of tickets, which go to support Shindig on the Green and Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. Valued at $1000.
Raffle tickets are $3 or two for $5, and are available at Shindig on the Green and at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival.
Thank you everyone for participating and supporting the Shindig on the Green!
Thank You to Our 2025 Community Sponsors
- Bill Hansen Music
Corporate
- Acoustic Corner
- Alan’s Jewelry and Pawn
- Asheville Garage Door, LLC
- Bill Hansen Music
- Black Bear Rentals, Inc.
- Finkelstein’s Loan Office
- French Broad Endodontics
- Ingles
- Mast General Store
- Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty
- Pack’s Tavern
- Pepsi
- Preferred Properties / Warrene Williams
- RichardHurleyMusic.Com
- Togar Rugs
- Town Hardware and General Store
- Village Antiques on Biltmore
- Ward and Smith, P.A.
In-Kind
- 96.1 & 103.9 FM- Bigfoot Country
- Ann Vasilik
- Bear’s Smokehouse
- Bob Blackwell Glass Art
- Bonnie Ross
- D. Hiden Ramsey Library, UNCA – Folk Heritage Archives
- Doreyl Ammons Cain
- Dulcimer Players News
- Fairview Town Crier
- Graybeard Graphics
- Griffin Waste Services
- Mountain Jam Circle
- Northern Tool + Equipment
- Printville, Inc.
- The Hop Ice Cream
A special thank you to the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority for their support.
