Press release from Carter/Kennedy/Page Media Agency:
The Folk Heritage Committee is delighted to announce it will have Mark Kuykendall, Bobby Hicks and the Asheville Bluegrass performing on a float in the Asheville Holiday Parade in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday, November 19th, 2016. The performance will help to kick off a celebration of the upcoming 90th season of the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival to be held in the summer of 2017. The MDFF event features 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 51st Season of 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 every summer. Shindig returns again to the heart of downtown Asheville at Pack Square Park’s Roger McGuire Green in 2017. 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 90th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk and Festival, a ticketed event in Asheville with a different show each night, takes place at 7:00 p.m. nightly, Thursday through Saturday, August 3, 4 & 5, 2017. 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 51st Season of Shindig on the Green or the 90th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, visit folkheritage.org or call Brian Carter: 828-335-1263.
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