August
4 - 6,
2016
89th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival
This is the nation’s longest running folk festival. The 89th annual edition of
this three-day event showcases the best of the region’s old-time and
bluegrass musicians, mountain dance groups, cloggers, and ballad
singers.
Enjoy a different show every night, beginning at 7:00 PM nightly at the
Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place in downtown Asheville NC.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Mountain Dance and Folk Festival this Weekend in Asheville
August 1 - 3 86th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival The nation’s longest running folk festival. The 86th annual edition of this three-day event showcases the best of the region’s old-time and bluegrass musicians, mountain dance groups, cloggers, and ballad singers. 7:00 PM nightly at Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place in downtown Asheville.
The event showcases performances by hundreds of the Southern Appalachians' best traditional mountain musicians and dancers. Bound by the tradition of "Along About Sundown" these gatherings continue the tradition, of the era when local folks of all ages regularly gathered at the end of the day on front porches and the like, with fiddles, banjos and guitars in hand and dancing feet at the ready.
Come celebrate the treasured cultural heritage of Western North Carolina throughout the summer at these events organized by Asheville's Folk Heritage Committee.
Learn more about Asheville rentals, events and attractions HERE.
The event showcases performances by hundreds of the Southern Appalachians' best traditional mountain musicians and dancers. Bound by the tradition of "Along About Sundown" these gatherings continue the tradition, of the era when local folks of all ages regularly gathered at the end of the day on front porches and the like, with fiddles, banjos and guitars in hand and dancing feet at the ready.
Come celebrate the treasured cultural heritage of Western North Carolina throughout the summer at these events organized by Asheville's Folk Heritage Committee.
Learn more about Asheville rentals, events and attractions HERE.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
85th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville
August 2-4 85th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival The nation's longest running folk festival, the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival showcases the top talent in traditional mountain music and dance during a three-evening festival at the wonderfully intimate Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place in Asheville NC. Come enjoy performances by hundreds of the Southern Appalachians' best traditional mountain
musicians and dancers and celebrate the treasured cultural heritage of Western North Carolina.
Since 1928, mountain fiddlers, banjo pickers, dulcimer sweepers, dancers, balladeers and others have come to enjoy themselves “along about sundown” the first weekend in August at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. At the 2012 Festival, performers will take to the stage for the 85th time in downtown Asheville at 7 PM each evening.Tickets are for sale on-line before the event.
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