Our corporate sponsor Ingles featured the Shindig on the Green in the Open Road Show episode. View the episode here.

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!

On August 1, 2024, the opening night of the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, the Folk Heritage Committee presented Carol Peterson with the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Award. This award honors the commitment she and her late husband, Bruce Peterson, made to the mission of promoting and preserving the music, dance, and storytelling of the Southern […]

“Courthouse Stars” Sampler star blocks are joined by Courthouse Step blocks to dance together on Saturday nights, reminding you of the Shindig on the Green. Made from scrappy 19th century reproduction fabrics in blue, red, and tan; professionally quilted and queen-sized. This is the twelfth quilt that local quilting collaborative Mountain Jam Circle has made […]

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 […]

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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