The 97th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival is happening August 1, 2, and 3, 2024
September 25, 2023
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The 2023 Shindig on the Green raffle quilt is twin-bed sized with multi-colored and white triangle-shaped pieces arranged in a “Fancy Stripe” pattern. The quilt was professionally machine-quilted and has a value of $500. This is the eleventh quilt that local quilting collaborative Mountain Jam Circle has made and donated to Shindig on the Green. […]
The 2022 quilt by Mountain Jam Circle is double bed size (80×96) and custom machine quilted. It is a traditional “scrap quilt” made of hundreds of squares of random colored fabric with contrasting white fabric forming “x” shapes. The music inspired pattern is called “Good Night Irene.” It has a value of $750. Also […]
The 95th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival is happening August 4, 5 and 6, 2022
February 13, 2022
This twin-size quilt was made and donated to Shindig on the Green 2021 by local quilting collaborative Mountain Jam Circle. The 252 quilt blocks were made from scraps of cotton fabric in a variety of colors and patterns, and arranged to form a diagonal grid. Your children and grandchildren can play at searching for the […]
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Justin Horrell won the Martin D-Jr. guitar, donated by the C. F. Martin & Company. Thank you everyone for participating and to the sponsors for supporting the Shindig on the Green!
Shindig on the Green was voted by Mountain Xpress readers as the 2nd Place “Uniquely Asheville” 2019 award winner for Holiday Event – Summer/Fall. Thank you to all our supporters! Please come out for the 2020 season and see what locals have known about for years!
We are honored to announce that this year’s Lunsford Award was presented to the Folk Heritage Committee chair Loretta Freeman for her significant contributions to traditional music and dance. The award was presented on the main stage of the Lunsford Festival at Mars Hill University. Loretta Freeman comes from a long line of dancers and […]
We are pleased to announce the winners of our annual raffle. Jeff Munday won our first prize: a beautiful handmade quilt. The 57″ by 84″ twin-size quilt was made and donated to Shindig on the Green 2019 by local quilting collaborative Mountain Jam Circle. Sheila Rogers won the second prize: a Martin D-Jr. guitar, donated […]