Several interesting courtship games can be found in The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. These games were sometimes called play party games. A boy and a girl stand at one side of the room. Another boy and girl catch hands and skip around them singing the first verse. The first boy responds with the second. The second couple sings the third and the first boy sings the fourth. At the end he asks “How about Mr. (one…
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Folk Dancing
Maypole Dance – John C. Campbell Folk School – Brasstown 2019 The tradition of dancing around the Maypole in celebration…
I was thinking about how I wish I could take all of you along with me to the festival today…
This weekend is the date for the annual Mountain Folk Festival held at Berea College in KY. The girls and…
Yesterday afternoon the Kudzu Kickers (Chatter and Chitter’s clogging team) took the festival barn stage at 4:00 p.m. and they…
My Appalachian Celebration was a huge success! The only thing that could have made it better-was if every Blind Pig…
Each year participants of the Mountain Folk Festival in Berea, KY are given an opportunity to take part in a…
Killy Kranky is a song the girls and I learned at this year’s Mountain Folk Festival in Berea, KY. We had…
Earlier this week when I was listing the things that May brings to mind-I totally forgot one-The May Pole. Sometime…
One of the highlights of attending the Mountain Folk Festival every year for the girls-is getting to show off their…