The Folk Heritage Committee announces the summer 2014 dates for two celebrated mountain traditions in Asheville, North Carolina: the 48th Annual Shindig on the Green and the 87th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. Both events feature long-standing as well as the newest generation of traditional and mountain string bands, ballad singers, and big circle mountain dancers and cloggers, resulting in fun-filled and authentic evenings enjoyed by kith and kin of all ages.
The
48th Annual Shindig on the Green, a free event in the heart of
downtown Asheville, with a stage show and informal jam sessions, takes place on
Saturday evenings. Kicking off on June 28th this year, Shindig on
the Green will be held on June 28; July 5, 12, 19; and August 9, 16, 23, and
30. Shindig returns again to the heart of downtown Asheville at Pack Square
Park’s Roger McGuire Green. The stage show takes place on the Bascom Lamar
Lunsford stage, named for the founder of the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival.
Locals and visitors alike gather “along about sundown,” or at seven o’clock for
those who wear a watch, for Shindig on the Green. Since the outdoor event’s
inception in 1967, hundreds of thousands of individuals from across the region
and throughout the world have shared and enjoyed the rich traditional music and
dance heritage of the Southern Appalachian Mountains in this outdoor setting.
The 87th
Annual Mountain Dance and Folk and Festival, a ticketed event at Diana
Wortham Theatre at Pack Place in downtown Asheville, takes place at 7:00p.m.
nightly, Thursday through Saturday, July
31, August 1 and 2, 2014. The sister event to Shindig on the Green, the
Mountain Dance and Folk Festival was founded by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in 1928.
The nation’s longest running folk festival, the Mountain Dance and Folk
Festival showcases the best of the region’s mountain musicians and dancers
during its three evenings of indoor performances.
The non-profit, all-volunteer Folk Heritage CommitteeTM’s
mission is to preserve and present the musical heritage of the Southern
Appalachian Mountains to audiences from throughout the region and world, for
entertainment and education, by producing the annual Shindig on the GreenTM
and the Mountain Dance and Folk FestivalTM events.
For more info about the 48th Annual Shindig on
the Green or the 87th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, visit
www.folkheritage.org or call the
Folk Heritage Info Line: 828.258-6101 x345.
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