Courtship Games from Days Gone By
Several interesting courtship games can be found in The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. These games were…
Maypole Dance
Maypole Dance – John C. Campbell Folk School – Brasstown 2019 The tradition of dancing around the Maypole in celebration…
Today at the JCCFS Fall Festival
I was thinking about how I wish I could take all of you along with me to the festival today…
Thinking Of Berea KY
This weekend is the date for the annual Mountain Folk Festival held at Berea College in KY. The girls and…
The Kudzu Kickers
Yesterday afternoon the Kudzu Kickers (Chatter and Chitter’s clogging team) took the festival barn stage at 4:00 p.m. and they…
Wish You All Could Have Been There!
My Appalachian Celebration was a huge success! The only thing that could have made it better-was if every Blind Pig…
Kentucky Running Set
Each year participants of the Mountain Folk Festival in Berea, KY are given an opportunity to take part in a…
Killy Kranky
Killy Kranky is a song the girls and I learned at this year’s Mountain Folk Festival in Berea, KY. We had…
Dancing Around The May Pole
Earlier this week when I was listing the things that May brings to mind-I totally forgot one-The May Pole. Sometime…
Feet Of Flames
One of the highlights of attending the Mountain Folk Festival every year for the girls-is getting to show off their…
Arnold’s Circle Dance
Each year the Mountain Folk Festival offers Saturday morning dance workshops for the attendees. It give the kids an opportunity…
Mountain Folk Festival 2012 Berea KY
Me and the girls spent the past weekend at Berea College-we were there for the 76th Annual Mountain Folk Festival. To…