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    Tag:  folk music

    Showing 1-7 of 7 results

    Around Town: New children’s book spotlights famous and lesser-known Black historical figures

    Posted on August 2, 2022August 4, 2022 by Flora Konz

    A local attorney pens a new children’s book. Plus, UNCA hosts the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, a new art exhibit highlights creatures of the Serengeti and the Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair returns to Burnsville’s town square.

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    Acoustic Asheville: 5j Barrow

    Posted on February 23, 2019February 22, 2019 by Jesse Hamm

    The duo is included on the Songsmith Gathering bill in Brevard on May 18. That lineup is headed by David Crosby.

    3.0 K views+MultimediaMusicVideo

    Smart bets: John McCutcheon

    Posted on November 1, 2015October 28, 2015 by Alli Marshall

    Folk musician John McCutcheon performs at the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Hendersonville Friday, Nov. 6.

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    Swannanoa Gathering puts everyone, from amateur players to folk stars, on even footing

    Posted on June 30, 2015June 29, 2015 by Corbie Hill

    Swannanoa Gathering, which runs Sunday, July 5, through Saturday, August 8, is five weeks’ worth of instrument or genre-specific camps all take place under the broad umbrella of folk music. The session leaders are often nationally or internationally celebrated, and end-of-week concerts are open to the public.

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    5 Questions with LEAF performer Dom Flemons

    Posted on October 14, 2014October 13, 2014 by Alli Marshall

    Leading up to LEAF festival, Mountain Xpress is talking to a number of artists from across the country and across musical genres. Folk musician Dom Flemons describes himself as an American songster. A founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, he’s since gone on to pursue a solo career and recently released his album Prospect […]

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    Review: River Whyless at The Grey Eagle

    Posted on September 25, 2014September 26, 2014 by Lea McLellan

    If you enjoy three-part harmonies, talented violinists, drum kits with kitchen pots, a bass player who occasionally plays the harmonium and the kind of lead guitarist who weaves a feather between between his frets, I sincerely hope you were at the River Whyless show at The Grey Eagle on Saturday. (If not, the next best […]

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    “It sounded like a story that needed to be told”

    Posted on October 17, 2012October 17, 2012 by Alli Marshall

    Pearl and the Beard returns to Asheville this Friday, for a performance at The Grey Eagle. Here, they talk about knitting projects, fan gifts, the “lather, rinse, repeat” life of tour, and why they heart Perez Hilton.

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